Patrick Garratt

Salut. Donc, cela fait un petit moment depuis mon dernier post, mais je suis content de vous dire que je suis encore vivant. Pour résumer un peu mon histoire des sept dernières années, et vu que j’ai supprimé tous mes comptes sur les réseaux sociaux après la vente de VG247 (j’en avais vraiment marre), il…

Ste Pickford and I have spoken three times in the past 20 years. We saw each other once in 1998 for a Wetrix press event, once in an airport just before travelling to Los Angeles (this was in 1999, I think), and then spoke once via Skype to make this podcast last week. You can’t…

A very nice lady named Sonya interviewed me about Deg for her blog, A Lover of Books, allowing me a little room to explain how, and why, my first novel came to be. Here’s a snippet: Deg is screen culture paranoia, anarchic politics and drug exploration written in an automatic, surrealist style. I wrote it…

Deg launched last week. I wrote about it briefly on VG247, explaining gaming’s role in its creation, and went to the annual Urbane author party in London that evening. My day was relatively bookish. You can buy it now on Amazon. Hardback copies have all been sold, I’m afraid, but more are on the way. There’s a…

Sorry if you’d pre-ordered and were counting the days, but Urbane’s delayed Deg. It’s now releasing on November 10, and not the previously expected October 6. Why? A few reasons. Firstly, my publisher, Matthew, needs more time to sell-in the ideas he’s had for Deg’s launch (which we haven’t talked about publicly yet). Secondly, books…