Victoria Hetherington

My guest on this episode is Victoria Hetherington. Victoria is an author and professional ghostwriter whose first book was the novel Mooncalves, published by Now or Never in 2019. Victoria’s most recent books are Into the Mist: Finding CF-JDO, a non-fiction book published by Kestrel Publication, and Autonomy, published by the Rare Machines imprint of Dundurn Press. Both books were published in 2022.

Author Liz Harmer said about Autonomy that "Hetherington's vision is bleak, but their glittering prose gives even the most monstrous realities of late-capitalism an unsettling glimmer."

Victoria and I talk about her ghostwriting career (and why the professional pitch for her services sounds a little Philip K Dick-esque), about the difficulty that some sci-fi fans have had with Autonomy, and about the complicated reality of literary books being treats as aesthetic class signifiers online.

 

NB: Victoria and I will be appearing alongside three other great Rare Machines authors—and our editor, Russell Smith—at the Book Drunkard Festival hosted by Blue Heron books in Uxbridge, Ontario, on Thursday, October 19. Find info at bookdrunkard.com.

 

Victoria Hetherington: vhetherington.com

Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

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