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Goodreads Giveaway

The lovely people at Freight Books are giving away 5 copies of First Time Solo on Goodreads. Click below to enter and help spread the word. Goodreads Book Giveaway First Time Solo by Iain Maloney Giveaway ends June 30, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win

This One Book

Simon Sylvester, author of The Visitors, recently wrote about a book that means a lot to him both as a reader and as a writer. He wrote eloquently on Roald Dahl’s Henry Sugar and then urged me to do the same. Just back from the book tour and jet-lagged, I didn’t feel much in theContinue reading “This One Book”

First Press

I’m back in Japan after the whirlwind that was the First Time Solo book tour. I’ll post properly about that when my head stops spinning but in the meantime here’s a nice piece from the Edinburgh Reporter on the Edinburgh launch. [Correction – I never said I was influenced by Alan Moore. I’ve never readContinue reading “First Press”

This Too Shall Pass

Halfway through the book tour, waiting to fly to Belfast for the next event (Saturday 31st at 4pm, No Alibis Books since you ask). I’ll do a proper post once I stop moving and get a minute to think but it has been fantastic so far – meeting old friends and new, selling books, buyingContinue reading “This Too Shall Pass”

5 a day and a studio of one’s own.

Four hours from now (as I write) I will launch my novel First Time Solo at Waterstones in Aberdeen. I’ve seen people like Iain Banks, Janice Galloway and Alan Spence read there and I’m still finding it hard to believe I’ll be doing the same today. I’m cacking myself. Luckily a well-timed email from MetropolisContinue reading “5 a day and a studio of one’s own.”

Extract Online

Freight Books have made an exclusive extract from First Time Solo available online. It is the very beginning of the book and I hope you enjoy it. The book tour starts next week (May 22nd, 6.30pm) in Aberdeen Waterstones. See you there.

Self Analysis

Will Self recently announced the death of the novel in The Guardian newspaper. I was moved to pen a reply which Freight Books kindly posted on their blog here.

Marking off the Days

I’ve been in something of a fallow period of late, hence the lack of news up here. The book has gone through typesetting and innumerable proofreads and is, as I type this, at the printers. Another week or two and I should finally have a copy in my hand. Everything is in place now forContinue reading “Marking off the Days”

Cover Art

I’m delighted to introduce you to the cover of First Time Solo. I can’t begin to explain how much I love this. The genius designers at Freight Books have outdone themselves with this bittersweet image which takes its inspiration from 40s modernist posters. I can’t stop looking at it and thinking ‘oh my god, it’sContinue reading “Cover Art”

On The Road

I’ve been pretty silent on here this year. Not because little has been happening but because so much has been going on, but much that has yet to achieve fruition. Copy edits, proposals, enough emails to destroy an entire rainforest of e-trees. But we’re getting there. The First Time Solo book tour has taken upContinue reading “On The Road”