May 31st, 2009 @ 10:51
Ms Inkslinger’s Review
My publicist asked me what I wanted from the novel, Perfecting. I didn’t say, but what I thought was, I want everyone in the world to read it. That probably sounds egoistic and it probably sounds the tiniest bit crazy, but I think when you’ve had something in your head and have been fiddling with it for eight or so years, it starts to make some sense. Writers are communicators. We all want everyone to read our work, even if we say, Oh, it’d be nice to make a living at this, or Oh, it’s nice to have a few sympathetic readers. This is the great firewall! At my launch, Andrew Pyper interviewed me onstage and one of his questions centred around Curtis and his need to have followers. I said to him that Curtis’s pathology had to do with a need to be buttressed by a large group of admirers, that this need was quite common among gurus and cult leaders, and then I made the analogy of a writer being not so fundamentally different. We are preachers, of a sort, but quiet introverted ones, believing our ideas have veracity, and can stir and motivate people. So, the novel was something of a play on that too, with its incandescent tone etc. Pyper looked shocked and maybe a little scared. Nice.
Anyway, all that to say I have another fan! Thanks Ms Inkslinger. And welcome!!
©2009 Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer