Naming a book is, I think, much harder than naming a child. When new parents smile through emotional and physical exhaustion and say ‘he / she is called Tom / Natalie / Jemima / Gideon’ no one replies ‘really? That’s not very catchy’ or ‘you can’t call it that, the McEwans already used that’ orContinue reading “First Time Solo”
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The Loneliness of the Umpteenth Draft.
One of the things I enjoy most about writing is collaboration. Writing, particularly novel writing, is a long, lonely and often mind-and-body-destroying process. For days on end it’s often just me, enough coffee to make a sloth do the Charleston and a well-placed brick wall with a rapidly growing skull indentation. As a result IContinue reading “The Loneliness of the Umpteenth Draft.”
Publish and Be Damned.
It’s been a busy few weeks for homing pigeons sent by editors and judges. In the negative column came: – The Dundee International Book Prize: shortlisted but not final listed. – From Glasgow To Saturn: flash fiction about a fight caused by a pub quiz machine. – Asimov’s for my post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, my firstContinue reading “Publish and Be Damned.”
Iain Maloney 