When my girlfriend comes home from a hard day at work, she, if feeling brave, teases me using this sketch. She doesn't really think writing a novel is the same as tasting ice cream, but...
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- TOM VOWLER
- An award-winning writer living in south-west England, my short story collection, The Method, won the inaugural Scott Prize in 2010 and, in 2011, the Edge Hill Readers' Prize. Debut novel, What Lies Within, published by Headline. Lectures in Creative Writing and represented by A.M. Heath. More here.
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3 comments:
Oh, God. This is too good!! I'm going to have to steal it from you and show my family. Thanks for the laugh!!
We are all cogs in the great machine... and when even the smallest cog breaks, then the machine can no longer work...
The world needs ice-cream and writers. Hang in there Tom.
:-)
D
Brilliant!!! It says it all!
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