I’m guessing the idea time to compose a list of your favourite caravans in fiction would be the week you publish a collection of linked short stories set in a North Coast Caravan park, or even the week these stories begin airing on Radio 4, or even, (at a pinch) when they’re subsequently repeated on Radio Ulster. I had good intentions. I started a list at the back of my diary. I never quite got round to finishing it.
Read MoreThe Last Resort, my series of linked short stories set in a caravan park in Ballycastle is being published next Thursday. Yes, that is April 1st. And, yes I am trying not to read too much into that date. This will be my second attempt to launch a book during Lockdown. Postcard Stories 2 came out back in August. I don’t know anyone else who’s published two books during Lockdown, (cue everyone tweeting to point out writers who’ve published three or four), so I’m setting myself up as a kind of expert, offering straight from the hip, hard learnt wisdom and advice to the very very many people who are sending their wee books out into a locked down world.
Read MoreI’m really proud of the fact that for the next ten weeks, as we wade through the early implications of Brexit, Radio 4 will be broadcasting Northern Irish stories, voiced by people who live and work here.
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