Hello. I am Robert Palk. I am a 35 year old failed writer, only now I have an agent and everything so I might not be a failure after all. Unfortunately failure is very much my main creative inspiration, so if I do find success I will probably lose that, and fail. Which will in turn give me more inspiration. If I reach a state of mild and cult-y success in which I can pay the bills but aren’t exactly AS Byatt, then I shall probably be at peace*

Anyway I shall be posting here, when the mood takes me or I can’t find a publisher for stuff I’ve written but still want you to read it. Mostly about books and stuff but the “and stuff” may cover a lot of ground. My novel, if you were wondering, is called Animal Lovers and is about a man whose wife leaves him to protest about the badger cull. So if you like heartbreak and/or badgers you’ll probably really like that. Keep your eye out. I’m also working on a new one. Maybe I’ll post about writing it and you can feel you’ve been part of my “creative journey”, midwives almost, at the birth of a masterpiece, and you can all rush out and buy it. And you can, of course, reach me through the comments facility which will create an exciting sense of intimacy. Anyway, talk soon.

*This isn’t true. I want to be MASSIVE

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