Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ...What crime novel would you most like to have written?
THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler.
What fictional character would you most like to have been?
Mr Kurtz.
Who do you read for guilty pleasures?
Viz comics.
Most satisfying writing moment?
The joke which only you get, and which you subsequently, regretfully, cut out of the final draft.
The best Irish crime novel is …?
DRACULA by Bram Stoker.
What Irish crime novel would make a great movie?
THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O’Brien.
Worst / best thing about being a writer?
Don’t know yet – I’m still new.
The pitch for your next book is …?
The desperate race to retrieve a weapons-grade washing machine from inside a near-future dystopia.
Who are you reading right now?
Anne Enright.
God appears and says you can only write OR read. Which would it be?
Write – if God appears to you, you’re a prophet, and prophets make top dollar in the self-help market.
The three best words to describe your own writing are …?
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Ed O’Loughlin’s debut novel is NOT UNTRUE & NOT UNKIND
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