Sue Phillips is the author of books and articles on mind/body/spirit themes and is also an award winning fiction writer. Black comedy and fantasy fiction rub along happily with books on healing and spirituality. Her more serious work has been seen in large circulation magazines such as Prediction and It's Fate as well as in books from Capall Bann Publishing and Spiralthreads Books. Articles also appear from time to time on her Spiralthreads website and she has written reviews for numerous magazines, plus two websites: Spiralthreads and Whispers of Wickedness.
With regard to the mind/body/spirit aspect of her work, Phillips' main area of expertise is in healing and North European traditions, including runes. Her book, Spirit of the Runes, published by Capall Bann, is now available and her newest work, Green Living, Sacred Life (co author Tye Jamie Coxston), is close to publication.
Her dark fantasy novel, The Waldorf Street Paradox, is published by Rainfall Books. It contains ten diverse stories that come together like a jigsaw between the prologue and epilogue to make a larger tale, subtly inspired by magic, the occult and a satirical sense of humour. Two of the stories, Images of Angels and The Dark Mirror have already won awards and Sue Phillips is the reigning International Supreme Terror Scribe.
For the past few years Susan M Phillips has had a message board at Whispers of Wickedness website entitled Sue Phillips' Posh Parlour, a darkly dangerous place inspired by the work of Mr Sweeny Todd. Sadly the website closed in May 2009. The contents of the message board are currently being adapted for publication.
If you enjoy poetry, take a look at These Shoes, which is one in a series about childrens footwear and An Afternoon With Katherine. For a little summer in the dark winter months, take a look at Warm Memories on a Cold Day. Rather more serious works are Scene in a Chinese Orphanage* and Who Suffers.
Sue is a big fan of The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry, the reading of which has honed her poetic skills. Poems resulting from reading this wonderful little manual are marked TOLT and a number of other authors are joining her on her poetic adventure. A few poems have been published recently in The Source, Coventry University's inhouse newspaper, including My Room and Maisie.
Her major influences have been people like Charles Dickens, Nigel Pennick, Graham Joyce, Anne McCaffrey and, lately, Stephen Fry - a new favourite. Someone who critiqued Images of Angels during the Supreme Terrorscribes competition correctly noticed that she is also heavily influenced by Ealing Studio comedy films.
*Inspired by a television documentary aired a few years ago. It has been stated that such scenes no longer occur.
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