What to read?

March 15, 2007

Last night I was running through what I might read – and talk about – at the library evening next Thursday. I’m really looking forward to it but I do hope no one expects Victoria Wood!

I’ve chosen an extract from Decent Exposure and I’m going to look at the ms of Wish You Were Here and read a bit of that.

My books are very high on dialogue and I find narrative easier to read aloud. Dialogue needs ‘acting’ I think, to get the best out of it. If I could drop on anice TDH actor with a Northern accent, that would help, naturally.

I did find a dramatic, emotional stretch of narrative in Decent Exposure until I suddenly stopped half way through and said out loud (I was on my own). “I can’t read that!” It was rather rude, you see…

I wonder how authors decide which bits to read and use as excerpts – how far through the book can you go without revealing the plot?

Comments

1. On March 17th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
   Rosy Thornton Says:
   

   Can I just say, you read that bit from ‘Decent Exposure’ brilliantly at Lichfield library?

   Rosy x