Andrew Michael Hurley

The folk horror novelist still finds this writing business "excruciating"...

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What is your daily writing routine like?

To some extent it depends on where I'm up to with a particular project, but I've found that I just have to put the hours in to make progress. So I'll generally start at around seven in the morning, work until lunchtime, and then by about three in the afternoon I'm done in and have to stop.

Describe the room in which you typically write.

It's nothing more glamorous than the back half of the garage, but it has a window that looks over the garden and it's a quiet, private space in which I can think and write.

Which of your books are you the most proud of?

I'm proud of them all, to be honest. They all came with significant challenges that I had to overcome. If pushed, I'd maybe go for Starve Acre. It's possibly the most disturbing and compact of the novels I've written. I like stories you can read in one sitting.