Wexford novelist Andrew Hughes on how his agent secured a two-book deal with Transworld It took two years to get my first novel finished and honed… I wrote pretty much all of The Convictions of John Delahunt through an historical fiction workshop with John Givens. John’s brother David runs Liffey Press and had published my social history of Dublin, Lives Less Ordinary. The book has to be as polished as possible before sending it out… I jumped ... Read the Post...
“The whole editorial staff was fired one Monday morning” – John Givens
California native John Givens talks agents, advances and publishing massacres. I started my first novel at the Iowa Writers' Workshop… One of the requirements to graduate from the Master of Fine Arts programme was to produce a novella-length manuscript. After graduating, I worked on it for another year or two while teaching in Chinatown in San Francisco, and it became Sons of the Pioneers. One of the teachers at Iowa recommended me to his ... Read the Post...
Ian Flitcroft: “Bloody-minded persistence is an absolute requirement”
Ian Flitcroft, whose debut novel The Reluctant Cannibals was published in 2013, tells us about the power of a compelling micro-pitch I wrote the first couple of chapters of my novel 20 years ago… but I didn't have a real sense of the shape of the book. Then life took over for 20 years. When I finally had a bit more time I returned to fiction writing. It took about two years to actually finish The Reluctant Cannibals. I tried agents first… ... Read the Post...
