Next week my guest here will be Debbie Young whom I met after she had read Kettle of Fish while on holiday (appropriately) in Scotland. As we chatted in the excellent Hamptons of Chipping Sodbury (we know how to live!) she told me about her visit to the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther which gets … Continue reading The Fishwives’ Tales
Time to celebrate! Less than two weeks to go until the official launch of Unchained, our anthology celebrating the 400th anniversary of Bristol’s original chained library. After a whole year of preparation, it’s truly exciting to see it all come together. Join us for the launch If anyone out there hasn’t heard the details, the launch … Continue reading Bristol Women Writers and Unchained
In my recent tweet-up with Debbie Young (of Off the Shelf promotions fame and appearing appearing here soon) we started talking about how our ideas of writing success have changed as time has gone on. (Yes, I’ve covered this before too, but it’s the season for revisiting past themes!) Or maybe it’s not success per se … Continue reading Call yourself a writer? Yes, actually
I may have said some of this before, but hey, since this blog has now been going seven (yes seven!) years I think I’m entitled to repeat myself from time to time! Today’s topic is, what makes it so hard for beginner writers to come ‘out of the closet’? I had forgotten how much it … Continue reading Coming out of the writing closet – an act of arrogance?
Becoming a published author brings a number of other opportunities along with it. First of all comes the ‘author appearance’ scenario, which for me elicits mixed emotions. I don’t usually find public speaking too daunting in itself, and who wouldn’t welcome the recognition and even applause (!) that comes with having a first novel published … Continue reading Those who can, teach
Ali Bacon, Author 