Storyscoutes Co / Interviews
I used to sit in the back of bookshop events, watching authors answer polite questions and watchful readers applaud the carefully smoothed edges of a career. The same passages get rehearsed: the...
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Interviewing a small-press editor is one of the most rewarding things I do. These are the people who read obsessively in the margins, who argue for manuscripts that larger houses overlook, who...
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When I started doing author interviews and scouring the small-press landscape for Storyscoutes Co, I quickly realised that the best route to discovering an overlooked voice often runs through the...
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When I first began comparing translations as part of my work at Storyscoutes Co, I assumed differences would be obvious: one translation more literal, the other more fluent. What surprised me was how...
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Interviewing a translator is one of the quiet pleasures of literary work: you pull back the curtain on decisions most readers never see, and you learn how meaning migrates between languages. Over the...
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When I sit down to interview a writer, I’m not only listening for a soundbite or a publicity quote; I’m tracing a map. That map shows the routes between books, the hidden corners of a writer’s...
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I’ve sat across from authors in bookshop backrooms, over coffee, on panels and through pixelated video calls. Across formats and temperaments one thing becomes quickly clear: the questions we ask...
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