Chris Killen
Chris Killen has secured a two-book deal with Canongate, for his first novel The Bird Room and second Indoor Fireworks. The Bird Room will be published as a large trade-paperback in spring 2009, and the publishers are already seeking interest in foreign rights.Chris is also fiction editor at 3:AM magazine, and, as well as his conventional novels, has completed a 100-chapter 'supermarket nightmare' novel as a 'one chapter a day' blog. His blog also won the 2007 Manchester Literary Festival's Blog Award.
Editor Francis Bickmore of Canongate compares him to Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and says he "...had never read anything like Killen's manuscript. ...I was amazed to find that the writer of such sophisticated prose was both unagented and so young."