Catherine Ryan Howard: 'The only thing you can do is write the book you want to write'
Catherine Ryan Howard. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan
It’s probably no surprise to discover that Catherine Ryan Howard thrives on deadlines. The Cork author has been delivering a book a year since her first, Distress Signals, was published in 2016. It means she is juggling promotion for her sixth book, Run Time, with finishing the manuscript of her seventh, which is due for delivery any day now.
“As ever, I’m doing the majority of the work at this point, at the deadline. This is how I work, I have completely given up trying to do anything else. I need it breathing down my neck before I do any work. In a few days, I will be up all night, strung out on caffeine, saying to myself ‘why on earth have I done this again?’. But this is just the method in my madness.”
