My representative at the Orwell Prize Ceremony has just rung me with the news that I have won.
Surprised? Not I. Congratulations to the Writing Detective. He deserves it.
I have a work of fiction to write.
As the assassin fellow says in Total Recall:
“It’s about goddam time!”
Told you so, didn’t I? I did.
You did. he’s a grand writer.
I have no doubt that, should a MSM publisher be not forthcoming, we might get The Hampden Press to try a small run of something, if Nightjack is willing to stump up a few hundred.
The last author, Richard Blake (“Conspiracies of Rome”, “The Terror of Constantinople”, and now one or more sequels in process, via Hodder & Stoughton, who spotted his self-published work) went that route, and is now making vaguely reasonable money, he tells me.
http://www.candidlist.demon.co.uk/hampden/