In this episode, Rob chats to Kevin Duffy from Bluemoose Books about the trials of independent publishing, the effects of Brexit on writers, the problem with agents, getting your authors pinched, assemby line blancmange books pumped out by big publishing and Hebden Bridge. Rob and Kate talk about Not the Not the Booker prize, Jacob Rees-Mogg, William Shatner singing O Canada, Feminism and Jeremy Clarkson. Rob forgets to edit out the bit where he wishes Boris Johnson dead (I don’t really).
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Links to stuff mentioned in the podcast:
William Shatner sings O Canada
- New Glasgow Lobster suppers
- Publishers are paying writers a pittance – Guardian article
- Grayson Perry – The Descent of Man
- Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
- Northern Lights Writers Conference with Joanne Harris
- MLF – Lara Feigel in conversation with our Kate Feld
- Brain Haemmorhage: How climbing moutains saved me – Helen Carter
- The Northern Fiction Alliance
Namechecks:
Grayson Perry, Eley Williams, Eimear McBride, Michael Stewart, Ronan Hession, Benjamin Myers, Alastair Sutcliffe, Jenn Ashworth (again), Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, Stefan Tobler at And Other Stories, Dead Ink, William Shatner, Lara Feigel, Doris Lessing, Jeremy Clarkson, Phillip Pullman, Joanne Harris