For some reason – perhaps because I've written about it so much elsewhere – I've failed to note here previously that I had a novel on the verge of publication. Well, anyway, it happened: in January of this year, Hobart Books published Architecture For Beginners, a novel I started in 2006 and which I thought I'd long since finished, until I found myself, towards the end of last year, frantically re-writing the ending as well as negotiating with my editor over various smaller bits of the thing. I think I may have driven him to the edge of a nervous breakdown (and possibly over it), but I'm convinced the process resulted in a much better book than if they'd just put it out exactly as it was when they first read it. So I'm grateful for their exacting attitude, even if they might have regrets about meeting their perfectionistic match. Copies are available here. Now to start a new one – which, if published according to the same timescale as the last, should come onto the market some time in 2040.
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AuthorRobert Cohen – a man in showbiz so stepp’d in that, should he wade no more, to go back were as tedious as go o’er. These are among his musings. Archives
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