Elvis rocks back to life: comparing a good film to a good read

Previously published at justwritebristol.org.uk

Let’s be clear, I’m a very intermittent cinema goer and I was never a big Elvis fan, but sometimes its good to get out and so I went last week to Baz Luhrmann’s biopic which I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed. It also made me think what a popular film genre the biopic is and compare it to the prose version, the biographical novel, which is how I sometimes describe my last novel In the Blink of an Eye and a format I’m following for my work in pr...