Fruits of the Weekend, and further branding

On Saturday I was interviewed in the flesh by the lovely Adele for Un:Bound, the fruits of which are now on her blog-site. Click here to view.
On a special note, it was a fun interview, which isn’t bad considering it lasted 2 hours (and I was suffering from an objectionable evening the night before). The fact Adele managed to draw out anything worth writing about in those two hours of ramblings is a down to her skill as a good interviewer – but be the judge yourself by checking it out.

Also, the branding debate has transferred itself from this blog to the Macmillan New Writer’s blog, with Suroopa Mukherjee (of the wonderful, Across the Mystic Shore) raising the whole question of whether branding is necessary and what it does to the writer. I’ve thrown my two pennies into the discussion at the end, but it’s worth reading if you want other points of view on the whole debate.

And while we’re talking fruits… If this blog suddenly falls quiet, unless you’re told otherwise, I’m not dead, just encumbered by a “bundle of joy”. Fatherhood is getting closer now, and babies rarely arrive on time – unlike royalty statements from Macmillan (which you can set your watch by) and by striking coincidence, one happened to arrive this very morning.

That should buy some nappies, then…