Andrew Blackman
I am the author of the novel “On the Holloway Road”, published by Legend Press in February 2009. The book won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary and the Novel Beginnings First Chapter Contest, and was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize. My next novel, A Virtual Love, deals with identity in the age of social networking, and is out soon.
I am British and live in the UK, but previously spent six years in New York, where I worked as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. My work has also been published in Monthly Review, the Cincinnati Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Seattle Times, Tampa Tribune, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Post Road, Carillon, Smoke, and in books by Twenty Stories Publishing, Greenacre Writers and Leaf Books.
If you want to know more about me, try this BBC radio interview, this blog interview, or this newspaper profile. Or drop me an email.
Hi Andrew,
Many congratulations on the publishing of your short story. We all are looking forward to reading it!
Cheers,
Nick
Hello Andrew,
I was just sending a card to Hakamada Iwao and your blog came up in a search. It’s such a coincidence to see your name, as I’m a friend of Katherine’s and went to Japan with her when we were at university together.
Good luck with the writing!
I lived in England for a year where about do you live?
I live in Crouch End, in north London. Where were you?
Andrew? Is this you, my RWI profile? I read on the J school list that you published a book, so I snooped around and found your site. Congratulations! I’d love to read your book – is it being sold in the US? Let me know how you’re doing & if you’re coming to NYC anytime soon.
Take care, Ashley Chapman
Hi Ashley
I’ll be in NYC in late April for the Columbia reunion, actually – will send you an email….
Good to hear from you – yes, it’s me! For now the book is UK only, although you can get it on the US Amazon site as well. Hoping to snag a US publisher soon
I picked up your book in Prospero’s, Crouch End yesterday and just finished it. It was an impulse buy I guess; the fifth book I took down from the shelf on a reckless, scattergun spree.
Hmmm.I have to say, I don’t know what to think or say. It has moved me. Not in a good way necessarily, but still…
I’m still digesting it.