“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian

Thursday, May 17, 2007

"Oi! You Birding To My Talk?" Brian McGilloway Gives It Verbals. Again

A graduate of PanMacmillan's 'controversial' imprint New Writing, Brian McGilloway (right) drops the inside skinny on New Writing's zero tolerance for paying advances in an interview in the latest edition of Verbals: "The deal is that you aren’t paid an advance on the New Writing imprint but you get a higher end royalty. The imprint publishes your first two books and if they take the second you then move onto the main list. I know there was a lot of criticism when the imprint first launched but I’ve found them very good to deal with. You’re working with the full Macmillan team and it gives you a chance to build a readership and reputation." Mmmmkay, but does it do what it says on the tin? Well, PanMacMillan have recently published Borderlands, the second Inspector Devlin thriller, and will be publishing the third, fourth and fifth in the series. So, yes - it works. Unpublished authors, get thee hence to New Writing post-haste ... Meanwhile, the rest of you could do worse than check out Verbals, which is edited by Garbhan Downey of the rather tasty Running Mates fame ...

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