Headshots for all
- Attfield Dutt
- 1 day ago
- 1 min read
It all started when an unknown company in Delaware wanted to display A DISTANT VOICE IN THE DARKNESS at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. I have a poor track record, you understand, at questioning firms who offer to do amazing things – I wear a label on my forehead saying please please offer me a twenty-five year maintenance contract before you vanish, or build a two-storey conservatory in my little back garden, or optimise search engines who might look at my website…
Delaware said I must have what they called a ‘headshot’ for their publicity and it turned out that actors and others in the family all thought this was essential, so off I went to an excellent company in the middle of Cardiff called Two Cats in the Yard, recommended by said actors, and I came out with what you see below. It was a great experience, the sort that makes you feel confident and really good about yourself, and now I’m wondering which of the characters in the novel I’m writing at the moment will be required to have a headshot taken?
This new novel is a sequel to A DISTANT VOICE IN THE DARKNESS so you may want to catch that first if you haven’t already. It’s a long-distance love story set over the decades in places like Wales, Nigeria, Darjeeling, the Grand Canyon, Copenhagen, Melbourne… Eleanor gets shot at a roadblock in Lesotho while fleeing a war-zone – hey, maybe she gets a headshot now?