Thanks to both Miriam Wakerly and Carol Wyer, both of Love a Happy Ending, for tagging me in the ‘Next Big Thing’ round of blog posts. Because my current work in progress is still taking only faltering steps, I’m cheating a bit by telling you about my first novel which, despite the time it has … Continue reading My first, my last, my Next Big Thing
The last week or two havbe been hectic – and that was before our trip to NYC (photos coming soon!) But I’m delighted to report that the lovely Thornberry Publishing will now be publishing Kettle on – tada! – ! 23rd October 2012 ! and to mark this announcement I have tarted up my banner and revealed the … Continue reading All set for publication – a cover is revealed
Only yesterday I spotted a suspiciously unsolicited email from someone introducing himself as a ‘fellow writer and a Bacon’. Call me stupid, but I always feel a kind of connection to a namesake of any kind, and so (call me stupider) I threw caution to the winds and opened it. Straight away I liked that he didn’t … Continue reading Meet Mark S. Bacon, my unexpected guest
Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder (blogged about it here) was possibly my favourite book of last year and so when another Twitter user alerted me to an email discussion about the book I was happy to be included. It’s a while since I participated in serious literary criticism (Euripides may have been involved!) and at first I was a … Continue reading State of Wonder: further explorations
We completely missed the TV series 24 first time round but when I spotted it on the charity shop bargain DVD shelf I thought it might while away the dark evenings (that’s dark as in a wet August rather than ‘deep and dark December’) And so for the last couple of weeks we’ve been reliving Jack … Continue reading From screen to page: 24 hours of plotting
