[Interview] Maurice Suckling
Maurice Suckling has produced and directed plays for a number of British theatre groups. He has also worked as a radio and television scriptwriter and a creative consultant for a number of national and multinational companies. Since 1998, he has been working as a writer, editor, designer, voice director and project manager in the computer games industry. His first collection of short stories, Photocopies of Heaven (Elastic Press) was published in November 2006. In a recent interview, Maurice Suckling spoke about his writing. When did you decide you wanted to be a writer? I think I always wanted to be one. I always wrote stuff, little ideas, thoughts -- that kind of thing. The first story I really remember and was maybe worth remembering was called The Island of Blue Glass . I’m not sure how to explain it -- it was a kind of surreal love story in which I wanted to never write the word love, because I thought there were lots more interesting ways of writing about the subjec...