You know what, it occurs to me I haven’t updated this thing in ages. Hello. First off, I wrote a novel. A really good one! It’s a comedy about divorce, mortality and badgers and you ought to read it. Here is the Hive link for those of you who care about stuff:

https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rob-Palk/Animal-Lovers/21607535

And here is the Amazon link for normal people:

It also got decent reviews in the Daily Mail (cough) who called me a “great comic writer” and in the FT, which proves I am proper literature even if there are badgers in it:

https://www.ft.com/content/ac5f14be-2878-11e8-9274-2b13fccdc744

Here’s a clip of my reading the first chapter, which you can enjoy for literary or your own private erotic needs:

And here is a blog I wrote about the illness I had just before writing it, and how it found its way into the book:

http://sandstonepress.com/news/2018/3/30/on-the-blog-animal-lovers

Now. What else am I doing? I’ve got some events coming up.  On June 7th at 5.30pm I’ll be joining the novelist Mahsuda Snaith at De Montford University to discuss The Art of the Debut and I’m doing a talk at Nottingham Waterstones on the 9th of June. More details to follow.

I’m also going to teach a class in novel writing for the East Midlands Writing School in October/November. Again, more details to follow. Also I’m very keen to write for you, or help you with your novel, or come and do a talk in front of you. Message me at robpalk81@gmail.com and ask me to do stuff. In the meantime I’m pressing on with a second novel which is going to be awesome and will have no badgers in it.