Ask the Author: Steven Primrose-Smith
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Steven Primrose-Smith
Piers Morgan. Sorry, thought you said two-word.
Steven Primrose-Smith
Hi Stephanie! Glad you liked it. It was a lot of fun to write. An audiobook version has just been released. This has been created via a partner company and so I couldn't control when it became available, but there's a link up there now on Amazon. Regarding the sequel, I have had all manner of problems with it. It is currently about 75% complete, but whatever I add to it never gets it any closer to the end. The response to the original has been so good that any sequel needs to be a lot better than it currently is. It will definitely emerge at some point, but right now I'm sorry but a date is impossible. Thanks once again!
Steven Primrose-Smith
My latest book is Route Britannia, about my 5,000 mile bicycle ride through every county in Britain. So the trip gave me the idea for the book. The idea for the trip came from wanting to see everywhere in my home country having not lived there for 20 years. Everything in the media and on the internet told me the UK was a dreadful place. I wanted to see if that was true.
Steven Primrose-Smith
Wake up, make myself some toast and a cup of tea and then tell myself that if I don't finish this book I soon won't have enough money to buy any more toast or tea.
Steven Primrose-Smith
Easy: No boss. (Worse thing: No money.)
Steven Primrose-Smith
As of January 2017, I'm writing a sequel to my George Pearly book, planning my next couple of novels, planning my next travel adventure in 2018 - a very different one to my previous ones - putting the finishing touches to a puzzle-based Android app and working on another app that will hopefully allow me to become a sort of travelling game show host. I know, that last one's a bit weird, isn't it?
Steven Primrose-Smith
As soon as you have an idea - any idea at all - write it in a text file and save it somewhere meaningful on your computer. Go back to it later and develop it, adding more ideas as they come along. Forget about it for years and then, if it's a keeper, it will call you back. It might turn into a book. My George Pearly novel started off as an idea I'd had ten years earlier.
Steven Primrose-Smith
I'm lucky. I don't get writer's block. If anything, I have the opposite problem, which is being slightly bored of my current idea because I've had a better one and want to write that instead. But if I succumbed to those feelings then I'd never get anything done and so I just have to try and stay focused. There are days when I don't want to write anything at all - but that's not writer's block - and so I go off and do something else, like work on an app or plan my next adventure.
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