Not the number of snowflakes I have watched flutter down today, or the number of kids released from school to play in the snow, but (more impressively for me!) the number of words that now make up my Work in Progress. To celebrate the big five o-o-o-o, I ‘downed tools’ and took to the local slopes … Continue reading 50,000 Today
Only a few days away, but look what happened. Maureen is back from holidays. Juliet is musing again. I have made an appearance on Greyling Bay. I took a walk with friends in Devon and saw snowdrops. Now I’m off to add a new agent to the blogroll. Green shoots or what? Continue reading What a difference a day (or two) makes
After my latest read I’m still a confirmed Chevalier fan. I particularly admire how she conjures up a time and place with such economy and so little overt description. There must be a wealth of knowledge and research in there somewhere, to deliver such authenticity in so few words. For someone suddenly considering embarking on a … Continue reading Tapestry update
Sad to hear via Jonathan Pinnock, (another Greyling Bay devotee) that the short story magazine Cadenza is no more. I’ve followed Cadenza since I started out in writing, knowing that it had exacting standards for literary short stories. Having submitted several times I was pretty pleased to make even a long list. The previous editor (who … Continue reading The colour of money
By a sort of coincidence I have been delving into the thirties and forties, first of all with Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (one of those reissued Persephone Books) which I heard discussed on Woman’s Hour not so long ago. I wouldn’t quite compare it as a friend did to Mrs Dalloway (though it … Continue reading Period pieces
Ali Bacon, Author 