'I was pretty crushed': Mitch Benn wrote two novels – then stopped. What happened?

The standup won a book deal after an idle tweet. Two books later, his love for publishing was over. He talks about why he's persisting with the third book in his scifi trilogy

A decade ago, a bored tweet landed standup comedian and singer Mitch Benn a book deal. What made him lose another isn't quite so clear.

I am a big, shambling doofus," says Benn, a fixture on TV and radio, especially BBC Radio 4's The Now Show. It's quite possible somewhere along the line I said the wrong thing to the wrong person, I don't bloody know."