Ask the Author: John Hartley
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John Hartley
I’m fortunate to have other creative outlets. When I get a block in one, I can generally fall back on one of the others to help ease the frustration. On the rare occasions none of the creative outlets work, I can always sit down and answer questions on GoodReads…
John Hartley
The Broken Bottle is loosely based on my teenage experiences being in a band at a school where success seemed to be measured not on how many A-levels you got but whether you were Oxbridge material. I was never anywhere near that calibre, and music was my escape.
John Hartley
I had a t-shirt, a particular favourite, that disappeared from the pile of clothes I left under a tree when I had to change for a cross-country run as an early teen. Everything else remained. That night a tremendous gale blew. I imagined my t-shirt living its new life, racing across field and wood, free of the human constricting it’s life experiences.
John Hartley
Even better, I can tell you a one sentence horror story:
We’re out of tea.
We’re out of tea.
John Hartley
That I don’t have to do it - it’s a choice, and as such is something that gives me great pleasure.
It also suggests to people that there may be more to me than there actually is, which is funny.
It also suggests to people that there may be more to me than there actually is, which is funny.
John Hartley
The sequel to my musical memoir ‘Capturing the Wry’ is due imminently. Entitled ‘Welcome to the Underachievers’ it features stories of day centres for people with autism, of recording sessions fuelled by Guinness and snow, of record company bosses in sheepskin coats, and of lots of people called John.
Later this year, the second in the Broken Bottle trilogy will reach the world in the form of ‘How Green Are Your Eyes’. This sees our humdrum hero Wilf in Eire, with the journey to adulthood revealing no way back.
Later this year, the second in the Broken Bottle trilogy will reach the world in the form of ‘How Green Are Your Eyes’. This sees our humdrum hero Wilf in Eire, with the journey to adulthood revealing no way back.
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