Kim Blank, a professor at the University of Victoria, has just published a novel, The Watcher’s Club. The Times Colonist asked Blank to tell us about how the work came to be.
Kim Blank, a professor at the University of Victoria, has just published a novel, The Watchers’ Club. The Times Colonist asked Blank to tell us about how the work came to be.One third is true; one third is not true; and one third falls somewhere in between.
Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. After all, we’ve all got stories, right? How much trouble is it to just remember and then write down a bunch of cool stuff — and make up the rest? It begins with my dear ol’ mum handing over a box of stuff from my very early school days. She kept everything. I mean everything. “You have it,” she said. “To pass on to your kids.” Then she added, “Life is not a map.”Mum’s box held all kinds of things. Birthday cards. A few lame drawings. Ribbons from sports day. Old report cards. Certificates. Crests. Class photos. A few random newspaper clippings, not all of which were tied to my tiny life in the hub, pub and tub capital of the world.
Staring out of the class photo, most of us looked frozen by the moment. Now, through adult eyes, a few appear awkward or uncertain, as if they were somehow out of place. Maybe they were. Well, I now know for sure a few were. I won’t say much more, except that, in the name of fiction, I would change a baker into a butcher, change a neighbourhood’s name slightly, creatively falsify the details and outcomes of the crime, call upon other stories, and then move the whole thing sideways into an adventure on one October night, where some innocent kids find themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time.
On the practical end: getting fiction published is a longshot. Publishers can take a year to get back to you, or they just don’t respond. Many publishers won’t look at your manuscript unless represented by an agent, which can take another year of fishing around.
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