by Ben Westwood | Dec 12, 2022 | Green Shoots Blog, Uncategorized
When I first started writing Green Shoots, I knew I wanted to write a thriller because it suited my writing style and reading preferences, but I also knew I wanted to write a book that touched on issues important to me. When I showed the manuscript to an agent, she...
by Ben Westwood | Nov 27, 2022 | Green Shoots Blog
People say don’t judge a book by its cover but readers invariably do just that. The cover is often the last piece of the creative puzzle but in the case of my novel Green Shoots, the idea for the cover came about before I had even started writing the book. I’ve...
by Ben Westwood | Sep 1, 2022 | Green Shoots Blog
Countless conflicts throughout history have been fought over land, but nowadays the conflict is increasingly over our relationship with the land. Indigenous cultures and ecologists revere nature, while capitalists regard it as a resource to profit from. Is the land...
by Ben Westwood | Aug 27, 2022 | Green Shoots Blog
Grief is a central theme of my novel Green Shoots. In the opening pages, the protagonist John Adamson is in despair on the edge of a cliff. He feels he has nothing left to live for, having lost his wife Christina. Luckily for John, he is brought back from the brink by...
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