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The Second-Worst Question
What’s the second-worst question you can ask a writer? Almost all the time, it is: ‘What are you working on at the moment?’* It sounds like such a benign enquiry (so thoughtful, so engaged), such an obvious conversational gambit. But for most of a book’s life – really, up until the point that it’s ready (read more)
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Quick and dirty
A quick and dirty post this, but one I’m very proud of. It’s pretty terrifying to talk about a work-in-progress, and when my publishers asked me to pitch my next novel* they very cannily did it at a cocktail party (and bought the drinks). There were lots of other Weidenfeld & Nicolson authors there pitching their own (read more)
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