Matt Edmondson

Yeah, even though it's a collaboration, you want it.

you want your work to be better than the others.

You just do.

And also there's a certain joy in stitching each other up within the chapter.

So like, you know, if Mole's taken a particular shining to a character, I can kill them off.

and then it's done um so we've had we've had some fun sort of toying around with that i mean i can't remember where the idea came from i think i think i've always i mean i have always liked games and puzzles and things and you know that thing do you ever do that drawing game where you you like fold the piece three times and someone draws a head and then someone draws a body and someone draws the legs and you go oh it's a completely random thing yeah i thought that'd be quite good but

With a novel.

Well, yes.

And neither of us have written a novel before.

So we thought that'd be fun.

Mol, I think you should speak to this because you got dyslexia.

And I think you were a bit concerned at the start of like, am I going to be able to sit and write this thing?

It's almost like your worst nightmare.

And it's revealed the side of you that I didn't know existed, which is like, she's genuinely very good at it.

It's an excellent format.

It's called Matt and Molly's Novel Idea.

Love it.

So we cut it together and I wouldn't recommend doing it because we're both quite, what's the word?

Control freaks.

Control freaks, yeah.