We have another confirmed reader for Write Now on 3/6/11: Helen FitzGerald. She writes "comic noir" novels in which bad things happen to good people as well as to bad people. She was the last author in the Visiting Authors series of talks Doug Johnstone organised at the Ramshorn Theatre for this year on 30/3/11. She read just enough from her upcoming novel, The Donor (out in July 2011), and talked about her process as a writer, and why she needs contact with other people/writers to keep focussed and to keep going. The Donor is about a single, bumbling but well-intentioned, Dad to twin teenaged girls who finds himself in an impossible situation. There is apparently a lot of wine involved in his decision-making process....
Helen is all OVER the Web, and needs you to be her friend, because "writers need input" and audiences.
http://www.faber.co.uk/author/helen-fitzgerald/
http://helenfitzgerald.posterous.com/
Befriend her on Facebook http://tinyurl.com/3b6d5ac
or follow her on Twitter: @FitzGeraldHelen
Come meet her and hear more about The Donor for yourself on the 3rd of June. You can now register to attend on-line; http://tinyurl.com/43sjsoz takes you directly to the University of Strathclyde on-line shop.
There is still time to send an abstract too, and we would love to hear from you:
http://bit.ly/CFPDOC
http://bit.ly/CFPPDF
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