What made you decide to go from writing books for children to adult novels?I actually started out writing for adults. I wrote lots of adult books which were never published, and my first book to see print was Procession of the Dead (known at that time as Ayuamarca). So it’s not a case of turning from children’s books to adult book, but rather returning to them.
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ACCLAIMED author DB Shan talks about his career and offers some useful advice to prospective novelists on the best way to go about completing that all-important first work…
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Interviewer: Declan Burke
What crime novel would you most like to have written?
I love James Ellroy, so probably one of his. Maybe LA CONFIDENTIAL or THE BLACK DAHLIA. Though it would have been special to write THE MALTESE FALCON too …
THE ROAD TO DARKNESS
interviewer: Alison Flood
In an urban fantasy novel by one Darren O’Shaughnessy, Orion’s Simon Spanton—the book’s first editor—appears as a corpse and has his extracted guts used as a divining tool to predict the future stock market performance of his company.
an interview from mid 1999.
Two rules every ambitious first-time novelist should adhere to: pick a simple title, and be able to summarise the plot of your book in two lines or less. With this in mind, I called my first novel Ayuamarca and cooked up a plot which required at least two or three paragraphs to describe. So much for savvy!
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