First Graft


First Graft Podcast

Join me as I write my next novel, The Sound Mirror, share the ups and downs, breakthroughs and frustrations, and my endless procrastination. Come along on my research trips, listen to interviews with other writers and publishing folk. Get tips, share your progress or questions, tell me your challenges, laugh at my stupid false starts. Even better, write along with me! First drafts are hard graft, so we best get writing.

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Join me as I talk to…

Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing, The Gallows Pole, Pig Iron and Beastings

Katherine Angel, the author of Daddy Issues and Unmastered: A Book On Desire, Most Difficult To Tell. Her next book is called Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, and will be published by Verso.

Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul.

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Chapter sixteen – Katherine Angel – First Graft Podcast

In this chapter I talk to the wonderful Katherine Angel, the author of Daddy Issues (Peninsula Press, 2019), and Unmastered: A Book On Desire, Most Difficult To Tell (Penguin, 2012). Her next book is called Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, and will be published by Verso. Katherine teaches creative and critical writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has a PhD in the history and philosophy of sexuality and psychiatry from the University of Cambridge. We talk about consent, complexity, Stranger Things, relationships, inspiration, Sophie MacKintosh's The Water Cure, Adam Phillips on Winnicott, writing ourselves into being, trusting the process and so much more. See links below:https://www.waterstones.com/book/unmastered/katherine-angel/9780718194772https://www.waterstones.com/book/daddy-issues/katherine-angel/9781999922399https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-water-cure/sophie-mackintosh/9780241983010
  1. Chapter sixteen – Katherine Angel
  2. Chapter fifteen: Chatting with Hetha Duffy, Editor and Co-owner of Bluemoose Books
  3. Chapter Fourteen: I chat with Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
  4. Chapter Thirteen -Incurring the Wrath of a Spiteful and Minor God
  5. Chapter Twelve: First Draft of Section One is Done