If you’re interested in the creative process at all, you’ve probably come across a blog called The Creative Identity, run by Stephanella Walsh. It comprises great essays on the issues involved in writing. Stephanella also conducts interviews. This morning, there’s one featuring me. Almost a year ago exactly, in my second Creative Times, I linked [...]
M’comrade Ben Johncock – author of, among other things, The Importance of Being Benjamin – asked me a Bookish Half Dozen questions a little while ago, and he’s now published the result. Spoiler alert: I didn’t like Life of Pi.
Part two of my interview Aliya Whiteley is now up on her website. More mots bon from me. A: When do you feel satisfied that you’ve done enough research? I: I don’t think I’ve ever felt satisfied with research. There’s always something that you’ve handled wrong. With specific regard to a novel, where you’re dealing [...]
I’ve been interviewed over at the SF Signal blog. Lovely people. CT: What’s next for Dr. Ian Hocking? IH: I want to get a more important title. Vicar, possibly. Rear Admiral, at a push. Your readers can vote in the comments.
On the strength of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I’d put Charlie Kaufman in the same box as Hemingway.
Well, types. The truth is, m’colleague Roger Morris has been interviewed by theviewfromhere. Parts 1 and 2 are now available. [...] There was a launch party for the Macmillan New Writing imprint, and I met the reader who had pulled my book out of the slush pile. That was a great moment. She took the [...]
John Baker is a UK-based author. He’s been blogging since 2002, which makes him a chap with uncommon staying power. He has published nine novels, the latest of these being Winged with Death (Flambard), a story set in modern-day York and Montevideo of the early 1970s.
Tom Saunders is that rare beast. He writes only short fiction. Rarer still, his short fiction is consistently excellent. His first anthology Brother, What Strange Place is This? (2004), received rave reviews upon publication, such as my own in Spike Magazine: This fine collection should prove thought-provoking and sad, musical and enervating. A kaleidoscope of [...]
Gary Smailes over at BubbleCow, an editing/mentoring service, has interviewed your modest correspondent on the topic of writing.
You may – or may not – have heard of Jo Nesbø. He’s a Norwegian thriller writer with a series of noirish contemporary novels featuring Harry Hole, an alcoholic detective, under his belt. Jo’s Random House publicity ninjette contacted me a few days back to ask if I’d like some free copies of his latest [...]