A Comparison
It’s always a delight to read an interview of another New Zealand writer, especially when it’s a fellow author of fiction I didn’t know about previously.
Popular fiction writer Nicky Pelligreno has had a recent interview by Eleanor Black (“Your Weekend”, 28 May 2016).
She is described as prolific, published in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, with her nine bestsellers available in “far flung places”.
I have nine published novels as well (averaging about one a year) so I guess I must also be prolific. I don’t, however, have her claim to fame of reaching a bestseller list. While I share her inability to support myself from royalties, I’m fortunate to have retired early from a good job and am able to live on my retirement savings.
Pellegrino grew up in England and spent summers in southern Italy as a child (sleeping on relatives’ floors) which makes her more cosmopolitan than I am.
Pellegrino “views herself as something of an outsider” in influential New Zealand writing circles – a “tiny, clubby community”. She’s not, however, as far outside it as I am as a self-published novelist with not enough time left to wait to be discovered by a big publisher, if I ever could be.
Best of luck, Nicky, with your future books and I hope you escape another “eviscerating” review like the one you mention having from Ursula Le Guin in “The Guardian”. I guess it’s made up for by having such an international writer noticing one of your books at all.
Popular fiction writer Nicky Pelligreno has had a recent interview by Eleanor Black (“Your Weekend”, 28 May 2016).
She is described as prolific, published in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, with her nine bestsellers available in “far flung places”.
I have nine published novels as well (averaging about one a year) so I guess I must also be prolific. I don’t, however, have her claim to fame of reaching a bestseller list. While I share her inability to support myself from royalties, I’m fortunate to have retired early from a good job and am able to live on my retirement savings.
Pellegrino grew up in England and spent summers in southern Italy as a child (sleeping on relatives’ floors) which makes her more cosmopolitan than I am.
Pellegrino “views herself as something of an outsider” in influential New Zealand writing circles – a “tiny, clubby community”. She’s not, however, as far outside it as I am as a self-published novelist with not enough time left to wait to be discovered by a big publisher, if I ever could be.
Best of luck, Nicky, with your future books and I hope you escape another “eviscerating” review like the one you mention having from Ursula Le Guin in “The Guardian”. I guess it’s made up for by having such an international writer noticing one of your books at all.
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