Andrew Okey

Truly, the only thing worse than failure is the faint prospect of success.

I've been invited to pitch the WIP to DHH Literary tomorrow, at their pitching event in Liverpool. It's still more than 24 hours before I even get on the train down there and already I cannot eat, sleep (I've been awake since 4am), sit still or think clearly...

Ah, the bizarre world of the aspiring historical novelist. My last three web searches have been "Elizabethan bawdy song lyrics", "period pain symptoms" and "Are all angels male?"

Just got my current WIP long-listed for this year's Adventures in Fiction New Voices award. This time last year my completed novel got short-listed, so I guess the staffers there must like my writing style...