![]() ![]() Poetry, novels, short stories, non-fiction – whatever interest you. Read as much as you can, and write as much as you can – anything and everything. What advice do you have for young writers? Then there were more revisions with the publisher, before the book was finally published. Then I got an agent who loved it and started sending it publishers, it sold very quickly after a few months. Nearly a year of submissions and rejections passed, and meanwhile I worked steadily to revise the manuscript. After the first year, and about three drafts, my writers group encouraged me to send it out to publishers and agents. How long did it take you to write Cogheart? Deep down in his clockwork innards, though, he truly cares for his friends Robert and Lily, and would do anything to keep them safe. Malkin is my favourite character in the book, he’s a rather opinionated talking mechanical fox, who tends to be a bit brusque with people – especially those he doesn’t know. ![]() ![]() Who is your favourite character in Cogheart and why? Sometimes I go with my laptop to write in a coffee shop or library, or the British Library reading rooms – it’s nice and quiet there and everyone seems very serious and hard working, so it’s much harder to spend your writing time procrastinating and goofing off. Mostly I write on the computer in my office at home. This month, we caught up with Peter Bunzl, author of Cogheart to find out a little more about his writing and about his favourite character in the book. ![]()
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