But attracting those readers in the first place has been the challenge. The value of his not knowing comes through in his writing, making his characters sympathetic and readers loyal. But the possibility of a benevolent super-being has to be more appealing than the thought of the most powerful entity in the known universe being the president of the USA.” Neither does the pope or the queen of the witches. But while his characters are allowed to draw conclusions on the existence of a god or goddess, Rickman does not. To accomplish this, Rickman placed his characters in situations where they are faced with things that go bump in the night, and sometimes the day, forcing them and the reader to look at long-held belief and value systems. “I wanted to write novels which didn’t attempt to understand the paranormal or mould it into human shapes, but to show what happens in people’s perceptions,” he explains during a recent phone interview from his home near Hay-on-Wye, Wales. While new writers are told to write about what they know, Phil Rickman has made a career out of writing about what he doesn’t know.
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