The Story of the I

Two Ravens Press have published an article of mine in their web magazine here. It’s in the illustrious company of short pieces by Alasdair Gray, Alice Thompson and Jonathan Falla which makes me wish I’d spent a bit more time on it (not to say it’s bad, but it could have been better – something of a theme with me at the moment what with all the revising going on.)

While I’m on the subject of Two Ravens I have to say that the more I find out them, the better I like them. As a naive pre-published writer I had imagined certain things about publishers that I was quickly put right about when I actually had some contact with them. I used to think they gave writers enough money to live on, for example, and that they had no interest more central than the quality of a writer’s writing. Neither of those things turn out to be true. While Two Ravens aren’t in a position to hand out cash (can’t really hold that against them given that the big publishers won’t either) they certainly do care about the writing. Perhaps its even because the money isn’t that big a deal that they can care so much about it. Which is very nice for me. And it’s also what’s bringing in a lot of disenchanted writers from major publishers, so that I’m finding myself amongst a roster of established names – something I wasn’t expecting when my agent told me a small new publisher wanted Grace. All very good. They are also writers themselves and once Emma has finished reading Sharon Blackie’s novel I fully intend to get stuck into it myself – providing Vain Art of the Fugue hasn’t completely ruined me for reading altogether.