Polenth's Nothing

About Polenth...

I'm Polenth Blake and I write fantasy and science fiction stories/poems/shopping lists. Science and mythology are both interests of mine, so my stories range from hard science fiction to scientists-cry-when-they-read-this. I've had work published in places like Nature, Flash Fiction Online and Star*Line.

Biology themes are common in my work. I love plants, fungi and invertebrates especially. I don't discriminate again lifeforms made of metal - robots are also welcome.

I live in English with my pet cockroaches and family. I live on tea and large amounts of sugar. Though people often don't believe it when they look at me, I'm nocturnal. The less sunshine time I have the better.

On Writing

The first thing I did when I picked up a pencil was draw a picture. I loved drawing. I didn't love words so much. Though I enjoyed stories and reading, I was dyslexic and words didn't come easily. I gave up English as soon as I could.

Some years later, I was a critique partner for a writing friend, but he often put off getting his writing done. I came up with the cunning plan that we'd do NaNoWriMo together. The date arrived and we both started... and he dropped out due to having overtime at work. I didn't drop out and produced a finished manuscript. Though the novel needed a lot of work, I realised that my writing had improved immensely over the years. I wrote some short stories and researched places to send them. The first went out in January 2008.

I had a few small successes in the early years, but my first professional short story sale was in 2010 (to Flash Fiction Online).

I'm currently writing a novel.

This is me