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At the Desk: Nick Cutter
Submitted by Grace on March 21, 2014 - 1:53pm
Nick Cutter's first book, The Troop (Simon & Schuster Canada) has been delighting horror fans since it hit the bookshelves just weeks ago. It's even garnered praise from no less than Stephen King, who called the novel "old-school horror at its best". Today we're turning on the lights (phew!) and heading into Nick Cutter's writing space to see where the very scary magic happens. There's only one catch — there is no Nick Cutter. Nick Cutter is the invention of acclaimed Canadian writer Craig Davidson, who adopted the pseudonym in order to publish The Troop. So we're thrilled to welcome Craig, who takes us into "Nick's" inner sanctum as part of our At the Desk series. If you want to catch Craig in person, he and fellow fright-master Andrew Pyper are currently on a multi-city tour know as The Dark Side Tour. For more information, visit http://www.thedarksidetour.ca. Feast your eyes! A writer’s workspace — isn’t it grand? Lordy, lordy, I can only imagine that it meets all your hopes and expectations of what a writer’s workspace must look like. Some crummy little spare bedroom with a Walmart desk, hemmed by cluttered bookshelves with a bed shoved up against the other side. It’s … it’s … Xanadu! In all seriousness, it suits me fine. I’ve never been that particular about my workspace. You could point me towards a busted pile of bricks or a Mister Turtle pool full of congealed oatmeal and say, “Hey, Nick, you figure you could muscle out a few lines of deathless prose right there?” and I’d shrug and say, “You’re the boss, boss,” and get down to it. So this is pretty nice by my standards, actually.
I do like the bookshelves. We have a few more downstairs, though the lowest shelves on those are denuded, seeing as our toddler likes nothing more than to gleefully rip our books apart. I don’t have anything that even approximates interior decoration sense, but a house filled with books and bookshelves would be perfectly fine by me. I do enjoy glancing up from my labours every so often to see the spines of books I’ve loved reading, written by writers who’ve influenced me. Okay, there you have it. My enviable workspace. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to do some drunken night-writing! — Nick Cutter Related item from our archives |
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