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The only bits of marketing that do work for me, are the ones which don’t directly involve me; point-of-sale materials,…
I try to experience a novel as an ordinary reader and give it the fullest chance to exert its power…
The message was, that the project was going no further but the work I’d put in was much appreciated. The…
The reality of my writing life isn’t to do so much with the material places where I write, but the…
I probably read a novel a week. I’m always on the lookout for anything that might fuel the fire of…
Millenials are consuming literature in different ways. Sales of e-books have hit a plateau but audiobooks are becoming ever more…
As a struggling novice poet in Belfast in the dark days of the 1970s, I’d have been pleased to learn…
The natural world became a place for the growing urban middle classes to escape. Into this new psychological landscape came…
I was a mini-me Melvyn Bragg, with a broadcasting bailiwick and books of my own. Scottish Television’s housetrained house poet.…
Writing is a bit like dreaming, or day-dreaming. You write to clarify something inside your head. Writing is a bit…
If you don’t care about what you write passionately, how will you endure it, and why on earth should your…
The deadline for this piece was Christmas Eve, but that was also the deadline for buying presents for the family.…
