Roger Morris, guesting at Nik Perring’s blog, writes movingly on rejection: I’ve been writing all my life, and desperately trying to get published for over half of it. What this means is that I have been living with rejection for years. And years. And years. You know, when you spend so long living with something, [...]
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 [...]
As some of you might know, m’friend Roger Morris has joined that Web 2.0 band of authors what serialise their novels via Twitter. It’s true, getting a sentence or a fragment every hour – that’s how I am now scheduling my tweets – is not like sitting down and reading an extended section of the [...]
My reading life has been transformed by the discovery of audiobooks. There’s nothing quite like having a talented actor perform a text. I pleased to announce, then, that Roger Morris‘s book A Vengeful Longing1 is available in audio format.
Well, alright, not the BBC. Phoenix FM, actually. M’colleague Roger (of his plog) has released the audio of a radio interview from a few days back. You can listen to it here. In it, he discusses the genesis of his St Petersburg novels1 and his fondness for Dostoyevsky. 1 Is everybody writing bloody St Petersburg [...]
Paul Raven, over at the Velcro City Tourist Board, has tagged me with a meme. Here’s what the meme, which originates here, tells me to do: “To participate, you grab any book, go to page 123, find the fifth sentence, and blog it. Then tag five people.” So, here goes. This is the fifth sentence [...]
I once read that, before sitting down to write The Stand1, Stephen King put a single sentence on his noticeboard. It was enough to put him in the space where he could write the novel. That sentence was: Randall Flagg is a dark man. If that sentence doesn’t conjure an entire world in your head, [...]
Roger Morris has been awarded ‘paragraph of the month’ by the Chicago Tribune. A very curious award, but well deserved for this little vignette in A Gentle Axe: Inside the yardkeeper’s shed it was as if the objects of his life were shaping themselves around the fact of his death, around his physical absence. There [...]
Macmillan New Writing is an imprint whose founder, Michael Barnard, wanted to create a springboard for talented, unpublished writers with work that might be overlooked by the more behemothic players. When MNW was created, there was significant broo-hah-hah and palavery. Hackles were raised and tea cups rattled home to their saucers throughout London. “It’s the [...]