Dennis O'Donnell on 'The Locked Ward'
When I told people that I was publishing a book, some of them were very surprised, but a fairly large number of my mates were just like, "oh, of course. Why wouldn't you write a novel and get it published?" Because, obviously, once you've written the thing, publication is the next logical step. Clearly.
I’m about to replace our latest ‘Armchair Traveller’ piece, which is an extract on ‘drafts’ from This Is Not The End of the Book, but I thought, before doing so, I’d write a blog about books in flux. It’s also Bloomsday today and it is a well-known fact that James Joyce almost drove his tolerant French printer to distraction by endlessly rewriting Ulysses when it was already in proof.
Making the sequel trailer to ‘The Snowman’ was really exciting. We enjoyed making the first one a great deal, but this one had a different tone to it. We felt it needed a more sinister creepy unveiling. Reading the book was great to get into; it was really intense and visual, so writing a shooting script was fairly easy. I suppose what was difficult was fitting it into 90 seconds.
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