This is part of an ongoing series of posts. Part one is here and part two here Sticking with books that are at a word and sentence level, I’ve read (sometimes scanned) the following books for review this time round: The Complete Plain Words The edition I have is hardback, printed in 1986 bought fromContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing Review 2”
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Real Writers
Imposter Syndrome – insidious isn’t it? I posted on Twitter that I wasn’t feeling like a ‘real writer’ so was pondering a post on imposter syndrome and got some nice advice from the lovely people of Twitter. More than one person sent me this: The lovely Frances Hardinge who I once had the pleasure ofContinue reading “Real Writers”
The Girl from a Thousand Fathoms – Review
Amazon blurb – “Tim Wassiter, P.I. isn’t a cynical old-school detective with a bottle in the desk, he’s the new-age version with chickens, tea – and a little bit of magic. His ex-partner scoffs, the old lady down the road just wants him to find her missing cat, but Tim knows that magic works. He’sContinue reading “The Girl from a Thousand Fathoms – Review”
Writing about writing about writing review 1
As I explained in this blog post on Wednesday my writing books have outgrown the shelf above my desk (and my fiction and non-fiction shelves are already groaning) so I need to do a cull. I’m reviewing/re-reading them (which will take some time) and the first three (yes I read 3 books yesterday, but they’reContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing review 1”
Writing about writing about writing*
This title comes from Tom Bissell’s excellent book Magic Hours and this idea is inspired by his essay of the same title. As I explained in a previous post I seem to read a lot of writing advice books. However I am running out of shelf space and it’s about time I culled the onesContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing*”
Is your corpse exquisite?
The rather marvellous Rexx Deane gathered a group of authors together in an exercise to create a short story during lockdown. Each author had a few seconds and then passed to the next – I came near the end. You can watch the whole thing here:
One door closes
It is with regret that I’ve found out that KGHH is now defunct. The people at the publisher are creating a new publishing entity (restructuring etc.) but as this will take some time and my books will not be available during that time with them I have asked for my rights back. (I’ll be checkingContinue reading “One door closes”
Lock down head down
<Looks up from a pile of scribbles> What’s that? Oh yeah – I’m alive and I’m working hard on the latest revision of The Certainty of Dust which is now looking more like a novel. I’m just taking a very quick break from the word mines as I’ve received a little bad news about theContinue reading “Lock down head down”
Remember me to one who lives there
Things have got weird but we always have stories right? And this unassuming set of tales is due to drop in a little less than 24 hours. It seems like a long time ago (it was) when we discussed these three anthologies from Grimbold Books (Lost Gods and Unexpected Heroines are also due out soon)Continue reading “Remember me to one who lives there”
Writing Retreats
I was going to blog about the recent writing retreat I attended but Chrissey Harrison did such a good job I’m just going to share hers here
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