Making A Living As A Writer: LIVE interview

Saturday, 25 April 2020

I'm LIVE online. About 1800h.

Sorry about the short notice, but if you care to follow this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUkYbNIu4Q

you'll catch me being interviewed for the Nebraska Writers Guild. Live, from my desk, Durham UK.

You can also catch me here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NWGWriteAcrossNebraska/permalink/1754806707994133/

(I'm not sure I should be using the 'catch' word just now, but it'll have to do.)

I'll be talking about my career (1964 to present day), my books (25-plus) and what I think success looks like.

Okay, make-up calling...

Who is Alan Wilkinson?

I live in Durham, England. I have made a living as a writer since the early 1990s. For twenty years I earned my bread and butter ghosting biographies, writing corporate histories and doing TV work - anything that would pay the bills. But my main literary and historical interests lie in the American West. I have made close to twenty major road trips out there, criss-crossing the region from north to south and east to west. I have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I studied writing under Chicano author Rudy Anaya, also in Taos. In 2011 I spent six months alone on a cattle ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, where I wrote The Red House On The Niobrara.

My 1994 bike ride across Nebraska is the subject of 'There Used To Be A Guy... But He Died.'

It was a 5000-mile road-trip from Mexico to Canada and back which gave me the material for Between the Rockies and a Hard Place.

In April 2017 my first novel, Cody, The Medicine Man and Me, was published by Ouen Press - and was acclaimed by Rudy Anaya "A real prize winner. Compelling story characters."

My next western travel book will be about a trip up the Lewis and Clark Trail.

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Saturday, 25 April 2020

I'm LIVE online. About 1800h.