Just four days on holiday and look what happened! First of all Ether books published my short story Mouse Years on their i-phone app. – that was just before I left. Not having an i-phone myself (lol) I haven’t seen how this looks but look forward to sneaking a peak as soon as I can … Continue reading Style Statements
Picture this. One room containing five (I think it was five) publishers, editors or agents, each seated at a school desk. At a distance of some 10 metres from them, five queues, each containing ten jittery wannabees (apologies to anyone there who was way beyond wannabee status) making nervous jokes and mentally rehearsing what they might cram into three short … Continue reading Get Writing 2: the pitch
Interrupting my current musings/rants on blogging to report on a Grand Day Out provided by Get Writing Conference 2011 and to say that my efforts to get there (2hrs 40 mins in never-ending downpour) were rewarded with an extremely well-organised day, some excellent speakers, and (roll of drums) – third prize in the short story competition. When this … Continue reading Get Writing 1: the prize
Following last week’s riposte to the can’t blog won’t blog fraternity, I thought I might as well add some meat to the bones of what blogging has done for me. One clue is provided by this weeks Strictly Writing post by Susie Nott-Bower about how writers hate the silence of no response. All writers crave if … Continue reading More love to the blog
When I read this post on the Futurebook blog recommending all authors get the social media habit, it simply confirmed my own beliefs that an aspiring novelist really has to get out there. It came up again at a writers’ evening where a friend who has just signed a deal for a genre novel told us that she is expected … Continue reading A blog by any other name
