Publication pre-history

Here is a link to a recent interview that I gave to Richard Marshall (right) of 3:am Magazine and which was just published. We met up in a pub on the Thames on a sunny day in April to talk about Dicky Star and the garden rule, my specially commissioned novella published to accompany a [...]

Jeremy, ill — the afterword from Dicky Star and the garden rule

My new work of fiction, Dicky Star and the garden rule is published by Forma on 26 April with a launch event at the Free Word Centre in London. Here is the text of a short afterword that is included in both the print and ebook editions, which discusses some aspects of the story’s relationship [...]

Launch of Dicky Star and the garden rule

I’m really looking forward to the launch of Dicky Star and the garden rule. Here is the info from the Forma website. Come and join us. All are welcome. RSVP info below. 26 April 2012 18:30 (Doors 18:00) Freeword Centre 60 Farringdon Road London, EC1R 3GA Forma is delighted to announce a launch event to [...]

The good news or the bad news?

‘Which do you want first,’ we used to say. ‘The good news or the bad news?’ The bad (although very old) news is that there is no Glastonbury this year. It’s a shame as I’ve enjoyed doing gigs at the Free University of Glastonbury over the past couple of years. Highlight of the 2011 festival [...]

Who has the right to write in the UK right now?

It was just confirmed the other day that my new work of fiction, Dicky Star and the garden rule, will be launched at the Free Word Centre in London. This launch event will be on 26 April 2012. All are welcome. I’m particularly pleased about this for several reasons, not least because the Free Word [...]

The Ghost of Music Industry Past

This stickered CD turned up in some forgotten corner of the house the other day, and it seemed so striking that I had to share it. A relic of another era perhaps, but one that is worth looking at again, especially when analogies between the music industry and book publishing seem to have been popping [...]

Off-Broadway

(adjective) 3. (Publishing/Literature) designating the kind of experimental, sometimes (but not exclusively) lower-budget productions, non-traditional collaborations and commissioning partnerships, innovative distribution models and prototyping associated with literature published outside of ‘traditional model’ publishing by the mainstream houses. With apologies for taking what is a very specific set of criteria relating to theatrical productions in Manhattan [...]

In case of emergency

February 4 is National Libraries Day: ‘a free-to-join gathering of people who believe in the importance of libraries.’ Well, count me in, because libraries of one kind or another are places in which I seem to spend a lot of time, although my use of them has changed over the years. When I was a [...]

Radiation information

I will be in Dundee, Scotland this weekend to do a live reading from, and to talk about my forthcoming work of fiction Dicky Star and the garden rule. I will also be attending the opening of the exhibition by the artists Jane and Louise Wilson. The two things are connected, and not only because [...]

Reclaim the ‘Occupy the Moon’ meme

My new short story ‘Occupy the Moon’ is now live on The Arts Catalyst website. The story was commissioned to accompany their group exhibition Republic of the Moon at (and co-curated with) FACT in Liverpool. The show opens tonight and then in 2012 it tours, first to the AV Festival and then to further venues [...]