New Kid on the Blog
I’m not sure what belonging means – ask Milan Kundera and JM Coetzee, others who’ve also moved from their mother country to elsewhere, in my case from Scotland to South Africa – but since my novel Deeper than Colour won the EU Literary Award and was published by Jacana last year, I guess I’ve earned my literary spurs In South Africa. At last.
My writing career started forty years ago but the sad outcome is that most of the publications I’ve written for have vanished, like Springbok Radio, the Rand Daily Mail and probably Women’s Forum too. Look out Jacana, did you realise the risk you were taking when you published work by James Clelland?
So, this brief blog is to announce the arrival of surely the oldest New Kid on the Blog at a (very) ripe 63 years of age. But who gives a toss about mere numbers? Not I – watch this space for thoughts on publishers, publicity and reviewers!
