Ask the Author: Jamie Mollart
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Jamie Mollart
New Crobuzon, and I'd wander around taking it all in while trying not to get killed
Jamie Mollart
My TBR pile is insane, I actually have to stop buying books, we have no more room!
Jamie Mollart
Touch wood I've never been badly hit by it, but I think the answer has to be power through, it doesn't matter if you're writing complete rubbish, just write something and eventually it will turn around.
Jamie Mollart
Getting all this stuff that's in my head out and onto paper. I think I might go a bit stir crazy otherwise. And the thought that other people are reading my writing, you just can't beat that.
Jamie Mollart
I know this is what everyone says, but don't give up. Just keep on writing and keep submitting. Before I found my agent I was close to throwing the towel in, I'm so glad I didn't now.
Oh, and don't submit until you're absolutely ready.
Oh, and don't submit until you're absolutely ready.
Jamie Mollart
It's a very character driven piece of Sci-fi. It's not a space opera or anything, but it is definitely set in the future and is powered by a 'big idea'. I always try and take large and difficult concepts and boil them down to how it would affect an individual and this is no different.
It's a complete departure in genre and content from The Zoo, but that's what makes writing fun eh?
It's a complete departure in genre and content from The Zoo, but that's what makes writing fun eh?
Jamie Mollart
It was inspired by a few things:
The banking crisis and the public reaction to it. An almost rabid desire for someone to pay for it
I was thinking a lot about the way deification of objects and how we place so much emphasis on digital communication.
And a series of visits I made to various mental health wards for work.
They all kind of mixed together and I came up with The Zoo
The banking crisis and the public reaction to it. An almost rabid desire for someone to pay for it
I was thinking a lot about the way deification of objects and how we place so much emphasis on digital communication.
And a series of visits I made to various mental health wards for work.
They all kind of mixed together and I came up with The Zoo
Jamie Mollart
I tend to have quite a few ideas bubbling under and then for some inexplicable reason one will present itself as the idea that is going to be developed. A lot of the time this happens when I'm in water. Very strange.
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