I am pleased to announce that Route have decided to publish my novel ‘This is all I Know’. This book was originally accepted for publication by Pomona (under the working title of ‘Skank, Like Corn Beef’) but unfortunately, they went down. The book is to feature in the autumn catalogue with a spring publication date. I have previously had short stories published by Route and am pleased to keep my work in the ‘north’.

The original novel was 180,000 words. I trimmed this down to 130,000 for Route. Over the next three weeks I aim to get this figure down, with a projected target of 100,000. Losing words is often more important than writing them.