I’ve just been on Anna Raeburn’s show on LBC, the London radio station talking about getting published. Wow she is so good, really professional and moved things along at a cracking pace. What was great to hear was the range fo questions people have, which come from all directions –
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I’ve had a load of emails – and couple of posts – to my aside last time about the Archers. What have I started? At least I know that I am not alone. I can barely cope with the sound of snogging while eating my lunchtime sarnies, but when accompanied
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“The proposed jacket had an artist’s illustration of a penguin on it and they were getting really heated about whether the penguin had the right expression on its face,” he recalls. As tempers frayed, Scott Pack was asked his opinion. “I told them that it was a rubbish cover whatever the penguin’s expression.” The cover was dropped.
Kate Hyde at HarperCollins has emailed me about Christopher Hill and his mysterious agency. HarperCollins was one of the publishers, where Mr Hill allegedly (I think that word is meant to go in here) claimed the Chief Editor was “very keen” on clients’ manuscripts. Not such great news when it
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“Rebus and Siobhan will never jump into bed together,” the 46-year old writer says emphatically, squirming like a schoolboy told his parents have sex. “Plenty of readers want it to happen, and it just ain’t gonna happen.”
“The people writing the most graphic violence today are women,” Ian Rankin says when I ask what he thinks of them. “If you turn that off,” he looks nervously at my tape recorder, but continues regardless, going public about one of the great unsaids among crime writers, “I will tell you that they are mostly lesbians as well, which I find interesting.”
NewBooks John Sutherland has a tip for the next time you go into a bookshop: look to page 69. If you like the look of it, buy the book. It is advice that works well for Sutherland’s own latest tome, How To Read A Novel: A User’s Guide. Page 69
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Are many authors reading this using MySpace? I am interested to know. I am writing about user-generated websites at the moment and it strikes me that authors have been a bit slow getting onto them. I can’t say much: I have had my own page on MySpace for a year
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But if a literary agent asks for a reading fee, don’t pay it. A few people have drawn my attention to a company in Scotland called Hill & Hill, Here is the story from the Daily Record:
The latest issue of newBooks, the magazine for reading groups, includes an interview by me with John Sutherland. He is talking about his new book, How To Read A Novel. The book is less about how to read and more about how to choose a book. My favourite piece of
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