Author: Connor O'Brien

10th June, 2020

Listen: #IPC19 Industry Research Keynote: Mary Poppins’ Publishing Compass

Professor Claire Squires, University of Stirling Inspired by a scene from PL Travers’ Mary Poppins (1934), in which a magical box opens up perspectives to the north, south, east and west, this keynote goes on a journey structured around four points of a ‘publishing compass’, responding to the following questions (not necessarily in this order). In so […]

30th January, 2020

The MUBA Interviews: Sue McPherson, Author of Brontide

What drew you to the story of Rob, Pen, Benny Boy and Jack? I wasn’t drawn, the boys called me in.  They needed their stories told and thankfully I listened (I don’t always listen to my characters). I’m a bit of a sook, I don’t mind a bit of grit and I love a bloody […]