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Monthly Archives: June 2011
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten years ago, a group of students fell in love with each other and had their perfect moment. Now screenwriter Nathan Beck is back in Budapest to shoot a movie about it. But his return stirs up memories for the old Breakfast Club survivors trying to cope in this city now their perfect moment is over: Gábor lives to make films but writes bubble bath ad copy to live. …
Independents’ day
Well, well, well. Talk about a seismic shift! If you’ve been following my contribution to the indie-publishing debate and my thoughts on the brave new world of the ebook and what it means for writers, that debate took a quantum leap with the news yesterday that JK Rowling has chosen to go indie and will be self-publishing her franchise as interactive ebooks through her own website/channel. She announced this on her new Pottermore.com website and it’s fair to say it …
Bloomsday and Ulysses
Today is Bloomsday. The day when James Joyce fans insist on re-reading an unreadable book, eating fried kidney for breakfast and walking around Dublin in Edwardian costumes following the steps of literature’s most unlikely hero, Leopold Bloom. I don’t do most of those myself, but it’s not out of a lack of desire. I do pick the book off my shelf and read it again, and maybe watch one of the dramatisations, and always find myself saying ‘next year in …
The ghosts of my life
And so to the third installment of my ’11 before 11.11.2011′ indie publishing venture. The Very Thought of You first came to public attention in the Minerva anthology New Writing 3, edited by Andrew Motion and Candice Rodd. Back then it was called Eyes Averted and was a taut 2,500 word literary short about a boy who falls in love with an old man’s dead wife. It was one of my first pieces of fiction to be published and no …