2024-08-20
1 小时 18 分钟My guest today is a writer, curator and game designer.
Born in Australia, she earned her PhD in creative writing at the University of Adelaide, then moved to London where she founded the Somerset House Based Games Festival.
Now play this, an annual celebration of experimental games.
In 2019, she wrote the script for Dicey Dungeons, a game that subsequently sold 850,000 copies and won the Indicade Grand Jury Prize.
In April this year, Vintage Books published her debut novel, the Husbands, in which a young single woman discovers a limitless supply of husbands in her attic.
The London Times has described the book as a brilliant satire on the Tinder generation's commitment issues.
Welcome, Holly Grimacio.
Thank you so much for having me, Simon.
Really good to see you, Holly.
So, yeah, you're right in, I think the best bit of any author's career, the launch of your debut and you've had a really good time of it, I think, you know, as someone observing from the side, and you just returned from promoting your book in the us, how did that compare to doing the same thing here in the uk?
Oh, it was, it was a really lovely time.
Went around a bunch of cities, went to bookshops, talked to people about the books.
I was really emotionally prepared for the one where no one turns up and you just chat to the bookseller for an hour and have to try your very best to.
To not be an unreasonable person about the situation.
Yeah, I'd really psyched myself up for that, but actually we had a pretty good turnout at all of the events, so I didn't get to use all of my pre prepared, intense, not botheredness.
Am I right in thinking you got to go on.
On a talk show, TV talk show, is that right?
I did very briefly for about four minutes on the Today show, which was incredible.
It was so everyone is so professional and polished and I guess I should have known that, right?
Because it's a show that has four hours worth of broadcasting every day and you don't do it live and you don't do that without all being really good at your jobs.