In this episode of Confessions of a Debut Novelist, I’m talking to Barnaby Martin about his dystopian novel The Quiet. We discuss how his writing career began with video essays on YouTube, his tips for taking history and making it more extreme when writing dystopia and why he believes you need to know the theme of the novel before you start writing. Confessions of a Debut Novelist Bookshop*Buy The Quiet: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10990/9781035051489Follow Barnaby: @BarnabyMartinListening In: https://www.youtube.com/@ListeningInFollow Chloe on Twitter: @clotimmsBuy Chloe's debut novel The Seawomen: https://linktr.ee/chloetimmschloetimms.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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