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Find a book club
Find a Book Club, a club that does what it says on the tin, asked me to recommend 10 books for book clubs (including two of my own).
Author Archives: Angela
Soul food
At the beginning of November Canongate said that the first 100 people who registered on THE GIFT site would receive a free copy of Lews Hyde’s The Gift. All you had to do in return was pledge to make a … Continue reading
Tagged boyf, canongate, Lewis Hyde, love letter, The Gift
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Lady into Fox …
… this morning I went out into my garden (small L-shaped plot, actually) to take this picture … … because I just couldn’t help wondering how they survive in the frost. See here, some cyclamen tolerate frost very well, some … Continue reading
Tagged boundaries, lady into fox, urban foxes
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Booking Through Thursday, on Saturday …
… This week’s question is suggested by Island Editions: Do you have a favourite book, now out of print, that you would like to see become available again? (I have several…) Mine is The Agony and the Ego (click on … Continue reading
World Book Day, Book Groups and Speaking of Love
My publishers, the wonderful Beautiful Books, say that if you’d like, they will send you a free copy of Speaking of Love because it’s been longlisted for the World Book Day/Spread the Word award. The number of free copies is … Continue reading
Speaking of Love and The Book To Talk About
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
The writing process …
… 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
GIFT day and Lewis Hyde’s The Gift
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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Penis Buyutucu
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Tagged Bierce, Booking Through Thursday, NaNoWriMo, Occurrence at Owl Creek
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Paperback cover
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
Tagged Anne Enright, Man Booker prize, Mister Pip, sales figures, The Gathering
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The Man Booker prize
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. (That’s the one I’d like to win.) Posted by Angela Young http://www.writinglifeandtheuniverse.blogspot.com/
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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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
The novel that was a short story, part 202
The beginning that I posted here on Monday isn’t as good as I thought it was when I posted it … but that happens all the time. The trick is to write on: and that’s what I’m doing. Cafe solo … Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, The Old Friend, Writing on
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The short story that was a novel, part 201
After what seems like years, but has really only been weeks, of editing my head off, I find myself with a jewel of a day (today) when the paid editing has gone away, at least for a day, and so, … Continue reading
FICTION ALLSORTS
A literary agent friend of mine has just told me about a new website for writers and readers called Fiction Allsorts. There aren’t any links up to either readers’ sites or writers’ sites, nor links to books read or written … Continue reading
Writing about writing
George Mackay Brown wrote this about writing: Therefore he no more troubled the pool of silenceBut put on mask and cloak,Strung a guitarAnd moved among the folk.Dancing they cried,‘Ah, how our sober islandsAre gay again, since this blind lyrical trampInvaded … Continue reading
Booking Through Thursday
Here’s today’s: COMFORT FOODOkay . . . picture this (really) worst-case scenario: It’s cold and raining, your boyfriend/girlfriend has just dumped you, you’ve just been fired, the pile of unpaid bills is sky-high, your beloved pet has recently died, and … Continue reading
