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Matthew De Abaitua

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About Me

My debut novel The Red Men will be published by Snowbooks in October 2007. The film rights have been acquired by Shynola.I am Editor-at-large for The Idler, and we have a new issue in October 2007. I am the editor of Channel4.com/film and produce a weekly TV show for Film4, Movie Rush.I was writer and presenter on SF:UK, a history of British science fiction broadcast on Channel 4. I have published dozens of short stories including one in the bestselling anthology 'Disco Biscuits' that was made into a short film called 'Inbetween'.

My Blog

The Red Men published and film rights sold

My debut novel The Red Men is available in all decent bookstores now, including signed copies in Borders. Review copies available on request. The film option has been picked up by Shynola, an an...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:54:00 PST

The Red Men Extract

The opening chapter of The Red Men is now online on 3AM magazine. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/excerpt-the-red-men/ Floods permitting, I am joining The Idler magazine for performances at The Secret ...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:00:00 PST

Is 'New Yorker' fiction kitsch?

I have just finished reading Julian Gough's essay on comedy and the contemporary novel here. He lays into a culture of academic professionalism that Creative Writing courses foster in American fiction...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

Boy child

So there I was, in the first hour of last Tuesday morning, standing in the delivery suite in the labour ward of the Princess Royal hospital in Haywards Heath as my wife, a crouching tiger at this adva...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:32:00 PST

The receptivity of the hungover mind

I woke up in Hackney mildly hungover after attending a writer's group in The Hospital. Along with the relief that I had made it through another night alive, a short story title popped into my head. "...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:45:00 PST

The Red Men on Amazon

My novel has an Amazon entry http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Men-Matthew-Abaitua/dp/190500558 X/ref=sr_1_1/203-6854907-8468700?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid =1173804341&sr=8-1 This will fill up as the pub...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST

Second novel

It took me about four years to write The Red Men. During that time I worked three or four days a week on my job and then crammed the novel into Fridays and weekends, using up all my holiday entitlemen...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:59:00 PST

Folly

"I am stupid." We were sitting in Everest, in Maghull, a dormitory town in the Liverpool suburbs. "I know what you mean," said Walter. "I am becoming stupider by the hour," I continued. Walter put h...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:51:00 PST

My Other Blog About Film

There is also a film-related blog I contribute to for Film4.com Here it is http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/film  ...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:28:00 PST

Inadvertent Scally Garb

I went back to Liverpool for Christmas. I moved out of the city when I was eighteen, to become a student, and so my dress sense wilfully deviated from the scouse dress code. Over the years, I affected...
Posted by Matthew De Abaitua on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:22:00 PST