On the train on the way home from the Society of Authors summer party. We had lots of interesting conversations and connections – it seems like you just have to say you write about spirituality and everyone’s dying to give you half their life story – well, the bits they regard as spiritual anyway. We are old enough to remember a time when mention of such a topic would either have been the end of the conversation, or people would have been eager to tell you which church they went to, either in real life or their imagination. Not a single one of today’s conversations went in either of those directions - nobody turned off, but plenty of stories about fairies, angels, inner search, etc. Some of them more believable than others but it seems like everybody who’s anybody needs to have at least one angelic encounter these days. In fact so many of them at this event that we’re thinking of proposing a spirituality writers group. Which could either come under fiction or non-fiction, but would certainly be fascinating. If any society members are reading this, let us know what you think.
