Interrobang Interrogation – Simon Brown

Interrobang and The Ogilvie‘s A New World?! is only days away, so we thought we’d titillate your literary senses and bring to you the next tall glass of talent on Friday’s lineup. And here he is – Scottish Book Trust Award winning Simon Brown.

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Originally from the Highlands, Simon Brown now lives in Edinburgh. He’s been published in 404 Ink and recently won a Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award. He’s currently trying to squeeze out his third novel.

Say hello on Twitter: @SKBwrites

?!: It’s time for A New World. What Earth-shattering thing would you invent to usher it in?

A giant anti-human prophylactic because we’d probably fuck it up if we were allowed in.

?!: But if we’re stuck in this world for now, where in it would you like to visit to experience a sense of renewal?

I’d love to see Lalibela in Ethiopia, where they have these churches they carved out of the rock.

?!: And what’s the most vivid representation of a new world that you’ve seen on page or screen?

The Road. It’s such an atmospheric, claustrophobic read and I can’t wait to see how accurate it turns out to be.

?!: Antonín Dvořák thought the New World sounded like his ninth symphony. But what music is playing as your new world crashes into existence?

You’d want the first song everyone heard to be memorable, so probably Mr. Bungle. But if we couldn’t get the appropriate public performance licences, then I’d be more than happy to strum the only two chords I know on guitar.

Thanks for that, Simon?! 

?!: Finally (and without giving too much away!) what can you tell us about what you’ll be sharing at A New World?!

It’s about a farmer tending to some unusual crops.

Here at Interrobang we’re all about unusual crops. We wonder if Simon will bring us along some unusual snacks?! Only one way to find out. Come along to Interrobang and The Ogilvie’s: A New World, this Friday 7th April, 7pm at The Biscuit Factory

You can get tickets on the door, or make it easy on yourself by getting them up front at Eventbrite.

The Interrobang Interrogation – Robert McGinty

Our first regular show at the fabulous Biscuit Factory – in association with The Ogilvie – is called A New World, so it seems only appropriate that the first INTERROBANG?! Interrogation for the night comes from Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award winner, Robert McGinty. His answers are brand new, so they are…

Oh no it isn't!
Robert McGinty – Behind you! It’s… A NEW WORLD?!

Robert McGinty works and writes in Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and son. He was a recipient of a 2016 Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in the Children’s and Young Adult fiction category. He is currently working on a Young Adult novel called The Dead Men of Pendragon House, as well as occasional articles and stories for his blog.

And here’s how he answered our questions:

?!:  It’s time for A New World. What would Earth-shattering thing would you invent to usher it in?

RMcG:  A quantum-reality hopper, to get me out of this string universe and over into the one next door.

For £15?!
Quantum-Reality Hopper: patent, R. McGinty

?!:  But if we’re stuck in this world for now, where in it would you like to visit to experience a sense of renewal?

RMcG:  Iceland, where our world is still being forged in ice-bound volcanoes.

?!:  And what’s the most vivid representation of a new world that you’ve seen on page or screen?

RM:  The glowering great city of Metropolis, a city for a future that was yet to be born.

Brexit Britain?!
A city that’s ready for A New World?!

?!:  Antonín Dvořák thought the New World sounded like his ninth symphony. But what music is playing as your new world crashes into existence?

RMcG:  A simultaneous melange of every Sixties pop hit.

Will one sixties number and one eighties number do?

?!:  Finally (and without giving too much away!) what can you tell us about what you’ll be sharing at A New World?!

RMcG:  I will be sharing a life moment when an old world of experience dies and a new, almost indescribable life takes its place.

Wow! If you’re not intrigued by that last answer, you need to find a new life! Thanks a lot to Robert for submitting himself to the INTERROBANG?! Interrogation. Come along to INTERROBANG?! and The Ogilvie – A New World at The Biscuit Factory on 7 April to experience new, almost indescribable sensations!  

You can get tickets on the door, or make it easy on yourself by getting them up front at Eventbrite.