Guest post at The Spectator

Here's a link to a guest post I was kindly invited to write by The Spectator's book blog editor David Blackburn, on the publishing history of The Birth Machine and the way it illustrates that it's not just literary talent that can make or break books and writers.

Child narrators and adult fiction

Tim Love quotes from the Salt Cyclone virtual book tours which Charles Lambert and I conducted in an article about child narrators in adult fiction.

Meanwhile, I have no idea whether the 2-day removal of my ranking from Amazon for Balancing on the Edge of the World was due to a glitch or to its one erotic story and Amazon's apparent bid to strip all 'adult' content of the ranking facility - see here for details of this last and its disturbing implications, and here to sign the petition in protest.