This is what the paperback cover of Speaking of Love, to be published on 6 March 2008, will look like. If you’ve got any thoughts about it, I’d love to know. In fact, how about this: Tell me what story you think this cover tells in, say, a long sentence (or two) and the plotline … Read More
Month: October 2007
The Man Booker prize
And so it’s: Anne Enright for The Gathering. Congratulations to her and her book. I heard on the radio (four) news last night (have you noticed that they say ‘BBC News for Radio Four’ now instead of the old ‘BBC Radio Four News’? I wonder why the strange, minute, change?). Anyway, as I was saying, … Read More
The Man Booker prize
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. (That’s the one I’d like to win.)
The short story that was a novel …
… is a draft away from finished, but I can’t post it here because one of the competitions that I am going to submit it to requires that it has not been published in ANY form. So I shall hear what the writers group has to say tomorrow, redraft, let it rest for a while … Read More
When is a MAT harder than writing? …
… when it results in this: Describe your five strengths as a writer I found the challenge HERE and because I was busy MATing (reading readers’ and writers’ blogs to avoid writing) I told myself that I would do it, that stumbling across it served me right for avoiding writing, and that I’d get back … Read More
ANOTHER NEW FIRST PAGE …
… this is how it goes. Slowly. But here is a redrafted first page for the short story that was a novel. *** I drift from place to place and from year to year with such ease, now. But, despite what they think, I usually know that I am drifting. It’s just that I can’t … Read More