Melvin Burgess
English novelist best known for young-adult fiction; author of Junk (Carnegie Medal 1996), Bloodtide, Doing It and the novel Loki.
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Their wordsI always loved books because of the huge variety of different genres, styles, and forms people could do - novels being so much cheaper than film of TV, that they allow experimentation.
↗Wayland Smith - the whole thing.melvinburgess.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsOnline seems one obvious answer, but maybe not Substack, which seems better suited to articles, essays and so on.
↗Wayland Smith - the whole thing.melvinburgess.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe Volsunga saga was one - that has to be the absolute classic of Norse mythology.
↗Wayland the Smithmelvinburgess.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWell, vengeance and bloodshed was something much more celebrated in a warrior culture such as the Viking had. Sadly, it’s something our own world seems to be turning to more and more.
↗Wayland the Smithmelvinburgess.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordspublishers are very risk adverse at the moment. As a result, any book that is likely to have a small readership is unlikely to get very far.
↗Wayland the Smithmelvinburgess.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Self-publishing on Substack has the merit that no publisher decides what he can and cannot write.
Their wordsI’ve enjoyed not having a publisher deciding what I can and can’t do.
↗Apologies and what next?melvinburgess.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFrankly, two or three hours a day is enough for me, I’ve never had an ambition to be what used to be called a man of letters - there’s too much else in the world to enjoy.
↗Apologies and what next?melvinburgess.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece