Tag Archives: publishing

So, What’s It About? Describing Empires …

Posted on 06/07/2021 by nickearls

The blurb says it’s about a lot: Alaska, 2018, and Mike is a long way from home, nursing a wrecked knee and an unspoken grief, striking out into real estate and parenting his partner’s son. London, 1978, and Simon is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Nobel Prize Winner Steals Festival Director’s Pillows

Posted on 21/05/2018 by nickearls

Or so the story goes. And it’s not alone. It’s one of those stories that circulate among writers, but don’t usually make their way into the wider world. With a new book about to come out, the experienced writer marshals … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Fixing a Novel in a Changing Time – and Getting the Body Hair Right

Posted on 01/07/2014 by nickearls

‘Why do headphones have to be so damned small?!?!’ That’s a line from a festival session blurb connected with my novel Analogue Men and the fear and grumpiness that comes with the feeling that technology is outpacing us. Why the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 16 Comments

New Adult – A Genuine Genre or a Too-thin Slice of a Shrinking Pie?

Posted on 12/11/2012 by nickearls

I can’t say who invented the notion of New Adult as a book genre, or what their intentions were. It’s easy to guess that their intentions might have been centred around something like, um, selling books, but perhaps they saw … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

My Next Book – Written Next Monday, Published next Tuesday

Posted on 06/06/2012 by nickearls

I’m in the habit of thinking that my next book is July’s Welcome to Normal (the collection in Australia and NZ, the e-story everywhere else). But, no, my next book is a far crazier, far more compressed creature that has … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments