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MetaxuCafe UpdatesSearching Member Sites
I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.
Interview with Antony Moore of The Swap
by Mike French on January 09, 2008
Antony Moore’s debut book, The Swap, featured on my blog year and I finally tracked him down through his agent to ask him some questions about it and his experiences as a first time writer.
Here is an excerpt:
When did you start writing?
I’ve always written for my own pleasure, mostly very bad poetry and searing soul-searching self-analyses in short-story form. Then a year or two ago I got sick of that and wrote my first novel which turned out to be light-hearted and cheerful.
How did you get your first commission/agent and how did that feel?
I sent my MS in cold to an agent, she liked it but didn’t have any room for me on her books so recommended me to another agent who liked The Swap straight away. I felt delighted and slightly daunted. I guess I’d had some hopes but it feels very different when hopes turn into realities so quickly.
What advice would you give fellow writers?
Stop writing! Have you seen Waterstones? There are way too many books out there. But if you insist on doing it, then play to your strengths. I know I’m writing well when I can’t wait to pick up the pen. As Homer Simpson might put it: “if it’s hard work that means it’s time to stop”.
Read the whole interview at:
http://mike-french.blogspot.com/2008/01/mike-interviews-antony-moore.html
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