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Tiffani Angus is a bestselling fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction novelist who is best known for his award-winning novel Threading the Labyrinth. He has also written short stories in erotica, horror, and fantasy. Angus has also co-authored the first and second volumes of Spec Fic for Newbies. These are beginner guides to writing in the subgenres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Tiffani currently works as a freelance proofreader, editor and writer in addition to running Book Polishers, the book formatting/typesetting business. She also doubles up as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Publishing at the Cambridge-based Anglia Ruskin University.

As for her training in fiction writing, Tiffani Angus went to Viable Paradise in 2008, the Clarion Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers in 2009. She is also a regular attendee of the North Wales-based Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference for more than a decade. She has been very active in the science fiction and fantasy community in the United Kingdom and writes a semi regular column in the British Fantasy society. Angues also regularly participates in panels at a bunch of Science fiction and fantasy conventions. In her previous life, she has worked many jobs that have included educational materials developer, writer, and in-house editor. She has also taken several leadership roles in university including lecturer of creative writing and publishing and Anglia Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy General Director.

Tiffani Angus’ magnum opus Threading the Labyrinth is a product of several years of research into English gardening history which was what she researched doing her doctorate. The work follows four centuries in a haunted English garden and resembles The Children of Green Knowe or Tom’s Midnight Garden but is written for an adult audience. The stories are penned from the perspective of women who work in the garden as opposed to being landowners. Angus had always been a huge fan of multi-generational and time-slip novels in which she could follow the story of a family through the generations. In the novel, she got to do exactly that as she holds onto characters and a garden that holds onto time. It also threads many connections from the future and the past and family connections across the centuries.

The interesting thing about Angus is that while everybody assumes that she must own a massive garden and know everything about all types of plants, she was brought up in the American Southwest where she never had a garden. Nonetheless, she always wanted a lush green space and a garden where just about everything grew. It was a garden where the rain regularly fell and the flowers were bathed in sunlight. As a teen, she tried to grow plants but since the climate was not suitable for horticulture, her plants just died. Tiffani Angus was so driven at this time that she even checked out English garden books from the local library in addition to gardening magazines. For Angus, English gardens were something of her Narnia. She also loved any movie or book set in Ireland and Britain from Jane Austen to King Arthur. As such, when she had the chance to do a doctorate degree, she went for a project that she was more familiar with. This would become a story about several generations who live in a house and how the horticulture and architecture mirrored their changing circumstances over the years.

The route to publishing her novel was a long one as she worked all manner of jobs before she decided to write her novel as a PhD project. She got serious with writing after she was done with her bachelors degree. The story of how she was convinced to write her novel was a little spooky. Angus used to live in Dayton Ohio beside a cemetery with one of his best friends on the other side of it. One day her friend showed her a pyramid shaped headstone with hieroglyphics. Later that evening, she asked her friend if the hieroglyphics could be a clue to something else. It was from that discussion that they got the inspiration to write a novel based on the headstone. Her friend would then send her a link to a writing workshop and the journey was on. As an author who is approaching her fifties she loves to tell her students that it is never too late to become what you have always dreamed of becoming.

At some point, while living in the United States she bought a house from a landscape designer that had a garden and this is how she learned how to take care of a garden. She now lives in a square and does not have a garden even though visiting gardens remains one of her favorite things and interesting events and people from horticultural history serve as the inspiration for her fiction.

Threading the Labyrinth is a work that Tiffani Angus published in 2020. It is an intriguing supernatural/historical fantasy exploring the history of a Hertfordshire based country house garden. The story is told from the perspective of a bunch of gardeners across the centuries in addition to a contemporary gallerist from the USA who unexpectedly inherits a garden and house. While it does sound like a ghost story, what it is is a changeling tale even if the faerie is very ambiguous and subtle. All through, Tiffani Angus keeps the tone of the storytelling entertaining and light. It does seem that she wants the story to be more about the magical experiences of an old garden rather than the details of the cultural history of horticultural practice or garden design. For the most part, it is all about what it is like to work and live in a place like that. The supernatural elements provide an excuse to visit different eras which the author showcases in distinctive ways each with its own language, colour and tone. All in all a very enchanting and readable story which provides the rewards without making too many demands.