Rambling blogpost warning! A bit of a promo for one of my fave “how to” titles: From Amazon’s description it says: Learn what a young adult novel is, how to write young adult fiction, how to get it published, and how to promote it. This title covers writing for young adults from start to finish: [...]
A friend of mine, Graham Marks, recently told me about these TED lectures that someone sent him the link to and how interesting some of them are. We were speaking about writing and creativity and interesting subjects and research and such. I watched a few since then and they are genuinely interesting. Randomly I followed [...]
A few things. I’m a Neil Gaiman fan. I know, who would have thought it. But last year I spent a bit of money and got myself a copy of his Adventures in the Dream Trade, mostly because I remember it had some great poems in it. And there is a poem he call’s A [...]
I have been thinking about doing a blogpost about this for a little while now and so I thought what with Yule being a mere snowball’s throw away, I’d go ahead and do it. Writers are really fun people to buy for. I have several writerly friends and enjoy buying things for them. Personal things [...]
I wrote this blogpost and completely forgot to set it “live”. Sigh. Where is my head? Wow, what a fab weekend. Mark and I trained it up to Leeds and it all went so well. Got to write and edit for just over 2 hours, so that was superb. Also, first class travel was super. [...]
