How I got published
Interview by Dolores Gordon-Smith
Scottish author Martin Stewart’s debut novel, Riverkeep, was published by Penguin in April.
‘Although the end of my publication journey was very unusual, it began in a very typical way. I’d written a couple of books that yielded a mixed bag of silence and blunt rejections. There were scraps of muchneeded encouragement too, but I was honest enough with myself to recognise that, although I could write, there was something missing from my work. It was a bit thin, inconsequential – a series of events rather than a compelling narrative. That changed in 2010, for a couple of reasons.