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My Next Book – Written Next Monday, Published next Tuesday
I’m in the habit of thinking that my next book is July’s Welcome to Normal (the collection in Australia and NZ, the e-story everywhere else). But, no, my next book is a far crazier, far more compressed...
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New Adult – A Genuine Genre or a Too-thin Slice of a Shrinking Pie?
I can’t say who invented the notion of New Adult as a book genre, or what their intentions were. It’s easy to guess that their intentions might have been centred around something like, um, selling...
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Fixing a Novel in a Changing Time – and Getting the Body Hair Right
‘Why do headphones have to be so damned small?!?!’ That’s a line from a festival session blurb connected with my novel Analogue Men and the fear and grumpiness that comes with the feeling that...
View ArticleNobel Prize Winner Steals Festival Director’s Pillows
Or so the story goes. And it’s not alone. It’s one of those stories that circulate among writers, but don’t usually make their way into the wider world. With a new book about to come out, the...
View ArticleSo, What’s It About? Describing Empires …
The blurb says it’s about a lot: Alaska, 2018, and Mike is a long way from home, nursing a wrecked knee and an unspoken grief, striking out into real estate and parenting his partner’s son. London,...
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