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First-time buyers have been especially hard hit with the banks due to get started to pay the Government back in April 2011 for monies inclined to them in the bailing available process, 2011 could be worse. Budget cuts, retail prices rises and naturally the VAT rise can also curb confidence available.
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Alan Campbell is a author of "Scar Night", an urban fantasy novel and also the first volume of that Deepgate Codex. His debut novel has been published by Bantam Books in the usa and Tor in england. Alan is Scottish born and raised, currently living in South Lanarkshire. He worked for quite a while developing video games before leaving to focus on photography and writing. I enjoyed the opportunity to interview him concerning his writing and posting experience.

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Margaret: What is your writing background, and as soon as did you first take into consideration yourself a writer?

Alan: My writing background isn't spectacular. English was my worst subject at high school. Apart from a several game design documents, Scar Night was the only real prose I'd written since leaving school. Actually, that's not entirely true. I did write an added sentence: a sentence so bad it would make you want to stick pencils up your nose and head-butt the screen. This won the Detective Fiction Category of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction competition ( http: //www. bulwer-lytton. com/ ), some sort of contest for bad producing. Not the most auspicious start to get a would-be novelist.

I'm not really selling myself here, am I?

Anyway, despite my lack of credentials I did so consider myself to become a writer before the book sold, but only covertly. Members of various producing forums had always explained, with what seemed like gleeful malice, how difficult it was eventually to find an agent in addition to a publisher. So I didn't hold on much hope of selling mine first novel. Rather, I just plugged away at the story for the love of it, and avoided embarrassing conversations by claiming to be a dolphin trainer, or a photographer, which was at at a minimum partly true because I'd been earning a small wage from picture gross sales to magazines and newspapers and so on.

Margaret: Who or what has influenced your composing, and how?

Alan: If I've read a book more than once, then I've enjoyed it immensely, and so the author has probably influenced mine writing. A few of the more likely candidates are Mervyn Peake, Meters John Harrison, George M R Martin, Steven Erickson, and Clark Ashton Smith. I love the prose of Peake together with Harrison, GRRM's characters, Erickson's sophisticated worlds, and the rich gothic weirdness of Clark Ashton Smith's tales.

Margaret: I know you are currently working on the second book of the Deepgate Codex. Do you have any other projects you will be working on?

Alan: I'm also focusing on a novella for an additional US publisher, and I have a growing pile associated with other projects -- short stories, comics, screenplays, all kinds of things -- which I'll finish one day.

About Scar Night along with the Deepgate Codex

Mary: What is the target audience for your book?

Joe: It's really for mature readers. I didn't possess a target audience in mind to look at wrote it; I was just writing the type of story I love to read.
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<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">First-time buyers have been especially hard hit with the banks due to get started to pay the Government back in April 2011 for monies inclined to them in the bailing available process, 2011 could be worse. Budget cuts, retail prices rises and naturally the VAT rise can also curb confidence available. . Alan Campbell is a author of "Scar Night", an urban fantasy novel and also the first volume of that Deepgate Codex. His debut novel has been published by Bantam Books in the usa and Tor in england. Alan is Scottish born and raised, currently living in South Lanarkshire. He worked for quite a while developing video games before leaving to focus on photography and writing. I enjoyed the opportunity to interview him concerning his writing and posting experience. With Writing Margaret: What is your writing background, and as soon as did you first take into consideration yourself a writer? Alan: My writing background isn't spectacular. English was my worst subject at high school. Apart from a several game design documents, Scar Night was the only real prose I'd written since leaving school. Actually, that's not entirely true. I did write an added sentence: a sentence so bad it would make you want to stick pencils up your nose and head-butt the screen. This won the Detective Fiction Category of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction competition ( http: //www. bulwer-lytton. com/ ), some sort of contest for bad producing. Not the most auspicious start to get a would-be novelist. I'm not really selling myself here, am I? Anyway, despite my lack of credentials I did so consider myself to become a writer before the book sold, but only covertly. Members of various producing forums had always explained, with what seemed like gleeful malice, how difficult it was eventually to find an agent in addition to a publisher. So I didn't hold on much hope of selling mine first novel. Rather, I just plugged away at the story for the love of it, and avoided embarrassing conversations by claiming to be a dolphin trainer, or a photographer, which was at at a minimum partly true because I'd been earning a small wage from picture gross sales to magazines and newspapers and so on. Margaret: Who or what has influenced your composing, and how? Alan: If I've read a book more than once, then I've enjoyed it immensely, and so the author has probably influenced mine writing. A few of the more likely candidates are Mervyn Peake, Meters John Harrison, George M R Martin, Steven Erickson, and Clark Ashton Smith. I love the prose of Peake together with Harrison, GRRM's characters, Erickson's sophisticated worlds, and the rich gothic weirdness of Clark Ashton Smith's tales. Margaret: I know you are currently working on the second book of the Deepgate Codex. Do you have any other projects you will be working on? Alan: I'm also focusing on a novella for an additional US publisher, and I have a growing pile associated with other projects -- short stories, comics, screenplays, all kinds of things -- which I'll finish one day. About Scar Night along with the Deepgate Codex Mary: What is the target audience for your book? Joe: It's really for mature readers. I didn't possess a target audience in mind to look at wrote it; I was just writing the type of story I love to read. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lanarkshirejobs.com">Jobs Lanarkshire</a></div>

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