As the self-imposed deadline to polish Djinn into shiny aweseomeness rushes closer at an incredible speed I spent most of today daydreaming just a tiny little bit. I was “window shopping” over at the Agents Supermarket and have drawn up a wishlist of people I’d love to approach in July. This is both incredibly exciting [...]
After working wildly and dilligently last night, I saved my work as I was about to turn off the iMac for the night…but something said to me: just check where that document saved to. And do you think I could find it? Anywhere? At all? Nope. Nada. Not even in my Finder folder. Oh, [...]
Friday evening was one of those utterly excuisite early Summer evenings. Mark and I decided to have a bbq and we invited our neighbour, Ray, around. Ray is lovely, an elderly (soon to be retired) freelance artist and sculptor. He dotes on our dog Sparrow and looks after both house and dog when Mark and [...]
I’m off to Foyles this evening to sit in the audience and stare lovingly at a living legend: Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I may even ask a question, but I doubt it. Face to face conversations I’m okay with, but in a crowd, I like to disappear, i.e. I like the anonymity and always feel that [...]
I’ve been subscribed to quite a few writing magazines here in the UK for a while now and I have to say, the quality is pretty poor. The articles are hardly ever in depth and the advice given seems very superficial. It’s like eating candyfloss when what you want is meat, veg, rice and a [...]
I genuinely think I need a medal. I popped over to WH Smith’s earlier today, during my lunch to go and collect one or two magazines (it’s research, I swear!) and I of course had to walk past their stationery section. I could feel my heart pounding, my head became dizzy and my palms went [...]
…apologies for radio silence. Real Job has taken priority and swallowed my social life and writing career in giant Moby Dick gulps. But I shall be back! With a write up on Comic Con I’ll be attending this weekend and the continuing of the 52 Brilliant Ideas thinghy. Wordz are my power! *shazam*
Building up your repertoire of random facts will ensure that you are a hit at any party. Out comes things like: did you know that the Spanish newt, when confronted with an enemy, can make its RIBS puncture it’s skin…and then use those ribs to attack whatever it is that’s threatening it? No? Well, now [...]
** This is not part of the Writing Bestselling Children’s Books musings, that will come later on today. This is about general ruminations about faery tales and it was brought on by a wonderfully thoughtful and eloquent blogpost on Katherine Langrish’s website – Seven Miles of Steel Thistles. This is the utterly fascinating and fantastic blogpost [...]
Well, you know the adage for adults: women are from venus, men are from mars? Well, kids are actually a completely different species, entirely. Are they even human? Kidding, of course. In Chapter 9 if Gordon’s Writing Bestselling Children’s Books, he encourages us to spy on these odd aliens from another world. Like we people [...]
