So much for the idea of the writer as an alienated misanthrope venting poisonous spleen on an indifferent world. Interviewed over at Things I’d Rather Be Doing, Sir Kenneth of Bruen reckons the process of co-writing with Jason Starr on the up-coming Slide (October 2) is pretty much jam at this stage, to wit: “It was actually easier [than Bust] because we can now literally anticipate where the other is going to go, we have the same vision, dark sense of humour, it’s like writing with a psychic twin, though Jason might say … psycho! We never had one disagreement and mainly, we have great fun. We’re working on book three and falling over each other with ideas … but we’re totally in sync now, it’s uncanny how we’ve meshed our writing so completely.”Which is nice. Next week: John Banville on how JD Salinger shared his Liquorice All-Sorts while co-authoring the ‘darkly allegorical’ Flopsy And Cottontail Go To The Mall II: This Time It’s Personal.
Good shite, have you seen a copy of Slide yet? I'm waiting for that one eagerly since Bust is the funniest crime novel ever.
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I haven't seen Slide yet, Peter - a copy did arrive at Crime Always Pays towers but the blummin' elves are holding it to ransom until I give back HR Pufnstuf his hookah ... negotiations are on-going, but there should be a review by next week.
ReplyDeleteI would seriously consider punitive action against the elves.
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