Monthly Archives: November 2007

Speaking of Love and The Book To Talk About

Posted on November 24, 2007 by angela

Speaking of Love has been longlisted for Spread the Word’s Book to Talk About, which is wonderful news for the book, and for all the books on the list (there are 100 of them). The award will be announced in … Continue reading →

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La Serenissima

Posted on November 21, 2007 by angela

I have been here: and I was going to show you some other beauties … but the photographs proved impossible to upload … and Blogger kept showing me an incomprehensible code and saying ‘We’re sorry’. I have just got back … Continue reading →

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The writing process …

Posted on November 5, 2007 by angela

… or should that be the thicket? I seem to go from a simple idea for a novel, a contemporary Beauty and the Beast in the case of my next novel, into a thicket of handwritten notes, ideas scribbled on … Continue reading →

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GIFT day and Lewis Hyde’s The Gift

Posted on November 2, 2007 by angela

Over on Dovegreyreader’s blog today she writes about GIFT day, organised by Canongate for the publication of Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift, which argues that we should keep some parts of our social, cultural and spiritual life out of the … Continue reading →

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Booking Through Thursday, Oh Horror!

Posted on November 1, 2007 by angela

What with yesterday being Halloween, and all . . . do you read horror? Stories of things that go bump in the night and keep you from sleeping?I thought about asking you whether you were participating in NaNoWriMo, but I … Continue reading →

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