![]() ![]() “I had written a three- or four-page opening to a novel,” he recounted. She has been the lead editor on all of his novels to date and he trusts her implicitly and so issued a confession. That “while” had stretched several years by the time Crummey found himself in his kitchen on the phone to Kanya-Forstner. ![]() ![]() “I definitely felt that after Sweetland – I was ready not to be a writer for a while.” “Every time I finish a book I feel like I’m probably never going to write another one,” Crummey said. Thus, the three novels Crummey has produced since River Thieves – The Wreckage, Galore and Sweetland, each also highly acclaimed – have four or five years of space between them. It turns out that he has quite a deep well, but he must be judicious with withdrawals. He has previously described that place as “a world of isolated, tightly knit communities that relied on the fishery and each other for survival.” The effort of rendering it so flawlessly in his debut novel, though, wrung out Crummey and left the novelist wondering whether he had any ink left in him. ![]()
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