Rodge's Email:

Contact Rodge via email: rodgeglass@hotmail.com

Rodge's Agent:

Jenny Brown Associates
42 The Causeway
Edinburgh EH15 3PZ

t:   0131 620 1556
e:  jenny-brown@blueyonder.co.uk
w: www.jennybrownassociates.com

contacts: Jenny Brown, Mark Stanton

New Scottish based literary agency handling literary fiction, non-fiction and contemporary women's fiction.

Clients include:
Rodge Glass, Laura Hird, Des Dillon, Jennie Erdal, Diana Hendry, Janet Morgan, Suhayl Saadi, Laura Marney.

No unsolicited mss. Best approach by letter.

Rodge's Links:

A selection of sites relating to professional interests and including some of Rodge’s favourite things...

www.alanbissett.com
The website of Falkirk’s finest, Alan Bissett, author of Boyracers (2001) The Incredible Adam Spark (2005), and the finest performer of his work north of Hadrian’s Wall. A fun website, refreshingly unserious.

www.alasdairgray.co.uk
Official site of the grand old man of Scottish letters and pictures, updated regularly by his long-suffering helpers Helen Lloyd and Joe Murray. Includes everything from the scripts of his plays to Gray documentaries to the abandoned plans for a Lanark film. Full of valuable stuff for fans.

alasdairgray.blogspot.com
Alasdair Gray’s personal blog, subtitled ‘As it Happens’: he sometimes puts up new work before it is published and prints his letters here. Recently added, in 2007, two brand new plays: ‘The Pipes’ and ‘The Damnation of Faust’.

www.anotherday.co.uk
Website of Vashti Bunyan, singer and songwriter who released her first album Just Another Diamond Day in 1969 as ‘Vashti’ then gave up music until it the record was re-released in 2000, leading her to give it another go. Released second album Lookaftering in 2005, over 35 years after her debut, to great reviews and set off on world tour for the first time. Vashti has collaborated with people like Devandra Banhart and toured with Vetiver, Adem and Juana Molita in 2007 under the banner ‘Zero Degrees of Separation’. Collaborated with Rodge in 2006 on the song ‘The Fire’ for the Ballads of the Book project.

www.bloomsbury.com
One of Rodge’s publishers, who will be releasing Working With Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography in 2008. Also the publisher of some Gray books such as Poor Things and his forthcoming Old Men in Love. Oh, and apparently Bloomsbury put out some popular children’s books about magic too. Harry Potter, anyone?  Nah, never heard of him…

www.bukowski.net
A huge database of work by the great American poet and professional angry drunk Charles Bukowski. This site includes a huge amount of material relating to the man, even details from his FBI file. Well worth a visit.

www.canongate.net
Scotland’s top publishers, who have an impressive list of authors including Booker-winner Yann Martell, James Meek and Michel Faber. Also Alasdair Gray’s first publisher, Canongate released his debut novel Lanark in 1981 and most recently re-released it in 2007 with a new introduction by William Boyd. Due to publish Gray’s A Life in Pictures in 2008/9.

www.chemikal.co.uk
Website of influential independent record label Chemikal Underground, who have had names like Mogwai, The Delgados, Arab Strap, Aerogramme, Malcolm Middleton and Sluts of Trust on their books over the years. In March 2007 Chemikal released Ballads of the Book, a collaboration album between writers (doing the lyrics) and musicians (doing the er, music), which included Rodge’s collaboration with Vashti Bunyan, ‘The Fire’.

www.chuckpalahniuk.net
Subtitled ‘The Cult’, this is an exhaustive site that includes everything you could ever need to know about the author of Fight Club, Choke and his new, ground-breaking novel book Rant, which Rodge reviewed in The Herald. Lots of strange stuff, plenty of merchandise, and rumours about future projects. Not your average…

www.ewanmorrison.com
Ewan Morrison is one of the best young writers around. The award-winning ex-director and author of The Last Book You Read (2006) and Swung (2008) likes to be known as a “Scottish purveyor of erudite filth” but actually his books deal with sadness and reality and coping with both as much as they deal with bedroom madness.

www.faber.co.uk
Faber & Faber Ltd is one of Britain’s most respected, established publishers. Publishes an intimidating list of great authors, including classic names like Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Peter Carey and Harold Pinter, going right through to exciting newer folks like Peter Hobbs, Sam Taylor and Amelie Nothomb. Rodge’s fiction publisher: No Fireworks (2005) and the forthcoming Hope for Newborns (2008). Website includes extracts from books, listings for all forthcoming events by Faber authors and interview with Rodge about the writing of No Fireworks.

www.freightdesign.co.uk/thebook.html
Freight is usually an art design company, but it occasionally dips into the world of publishing, with books like The Hope That Kills Us (2003) and The Knuckle End (2004), a collection of new fiction by various people who have been on the Glasgow University Creative Writing course over the last decade or so. The course is famous for producing writers like Rachel Seiffert, Louise Welsh and Anne Donovan, and for having tutors such as Janice Galloway, James Kelman and Tom Leonard. This collection featured a controversial Foreword by Alasdair Gray and includes rare work by Zoe Strachan, Will Napier, Nick Brooks and Louise Welsh, and was Rodge’s first publication, with his story ‘Not Much of a Talker’.

www.jennybrownassociates.com
Jenny Brown signed Rodge up in 2003 on the evidence of 10,000 words of what became No Fireworks and has been a consistent support ever since. Her fast-growing empire looks after authors as diverse as Angus Calder, Des Dillon, Laura Hird and Paul Torday.

www.kgbbar.com/lit
Site for the fantastic KGB Bar, the premier literature venue in New York City. The KGB put out several fiction collections in recent years of new and established writers, and holds regular readings every week. Site also includes a joint interview with Rodge and Alan Bissett conducted in April 2006 when they both did an event there.

www.lanark1982.co.uk
Unofficial Alasdair Gray site, lovingly put together, including detailed appraisals of most Gray works.

www.kurtvonnegut.com
Dedicated to the great writer, satirist and artist Kurt Vonnegut, one of the best writers in the world until he died in April 2007. This site includes everything from notes by his children in the wake of his death, to T-Shirts, to Vonnegut sculptures for sale (if you have a spare $9000), to his actual books: particularly recommended is his final book, the very funny anti-Bush rant A Man Without A Country.

www.laurahird.com
Literary and arts site including reviews, interviews and showcases of a number of excellent new and established names. Highly recommended.

www.litfest.org
Literary festival in Lancaster, England which Rodge has been involved with in past years, editing their publication The Storey’s Storey in 2004, a book of memories which also includes work by Jacob Polley and Gael Turnbull.

www.myspace.com/burntisland
Web space for Rodge’s band, Burnt Island. Includes downloads of songs recorded at Chemikal Underground’s Chem 19 studios in late 2007, and has information about forthcoming shows. Burnt Island first played in February 2007, were Vic Galloway’s Unsigned Heroes on Radio Scotland in Spring and have played festivals like Connect and Triptych. Recent download ‘The Moments Before’ (****) was described in The List as “a sombre and moving slice of indie-folk, sonorous vocals blending moodily with delicate piano and rhythms to sound like a downbeat Delgados on an acoustic tip.”

www.nationaltheatrescotland.com
Website for the National Theatre of Scotland, who produced the play Aalst, which Rodge wrote an Introduction for in Spring 2007.

www.theherald.co.uk
Home of Scottish newspaper The Herald, which publishes most of Rodge’s journalism and has also published a number of his short stories.

www.will-self.com
Official site of Will Self. Features regular blog, features, reviews and even photographs of the working space of the journalist and author of My Idea of Fun, Great Apes, How the Dead Live and most recently The Book of Dave. Will Self has also written an introduction to the Gray novels 1982, Janine and Old Men in Love, and wrote a general appreciation of Gray, which is also available on this site.

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