Ask Banksie A Question

Fancy asking Iain Banks a question?

In a few weeks’ time, the one and only Iain [M] Banks will be participating in an email QandA session, which will be conducted via the official Iain Banks website at www.iain-banks.net.

All the details are on www.orbitbooks.net

Send your best question (just one per correspondent, please), by email, to orbit@littlebrown.co.uk, with the subject line ‘Iain [M] Banks QandA Suggestion’. The deadline for submissions for this first session is July 9th.

At Alt.Fiction last year I saw him speak and asked him what advice he had for new writers. Apart from the usual "write lots" he also said that there's no such thing as a perfect novel. In other words, finish it, edit it, but eventually let it go, and write something else.