Ned was one of the youngest people to ever win the Man Booker Reward and was praised as the next big thing. That was five long years ago. He's been working on his latest novel that entire time. Pushing back deadline after deadline. He moved to The Point a few months ago to distance himself from his agent and editor, and since then has turned out more quality pages than ever before. He thinks he can actually be done with it in just a few more weeks and can feel it in his bones that it will be up for countless awards. He doesn't know exactly why he headed to The Point but thanks the literary gods he did.