First draft, rough draft, dirty draft. You know where I’m coming from here. The thing is to write and write some more. It’s all new and in the words of the Director of Deliverance, ALL GOOD. Hugh Bonneville ‘All Good’ Or is it? When do you go with the flow of a scene that’s just … Continue reading There are no rules. But lots of decisions.
As cop shows go, Line of Duty (Tuesdays BBC2) strikes me as a cut above the average. No surprise when I realised the writer is Jed Mercurio, (remember the almost fly-on-wall style Bodies? – how could I forget!) Although in LoD there’s none of the jerky camera thing, the casting is really great, the characters … Continue reading Whose story is it anyway?
So let me get this straight, genre is a requirement of the agent or publisher rather than the reader? I certainly know of more than one author whose novel has been rejected on the grounds of not fitting a genre or not being in the genre of the moment, and so it’s good that indie … Continue reading Crossing genres, or what’s the story?
I’d like to say after last week’s double whammy of excitement that things have now settled down and I have given up media publicity (!) in favour of a quiet writing reading life. But public appearances appear to be like buses, and so on we go, with an apology to anyone who has already had … Continue reading It’s a mad mad soon-to-be-published world
Since last week I’ve been in talks with an e-publisher and here comes the announcement: A Kettle of Fish will be published by Thornberry Press later this year!!!! Let’s just sit and look at that for a few minutes. One small sentence, but actually a very big step for me. My book is about to … Continue reading It’s a deal!
