An Evening of New WritingCanadian author Alayna Munce will be reading from her new book, When I was Young and in my Prime.‘Moving, funny, full of hard truths’ – The Globe and Mail, CanadaWith local authors; Kay Sexton, co-author of Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel,‘Inventive in language and exuberant in narrative’ – Russell […]
Endings and beginnings … Tomorrow will be a bittersweet day for me. I shall be handing over the reins (or even reigns) of Brighton (and Hove actually) National Novel Writing Month to my excellent successors, Fiona Wallace and Alex Allsworth. After three years I thought it was time to step aside and let somebody else […]
Ellen Meister resplendent! Ellen’s hilarious novel, Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA (hereafter SCAPTA) which features George Clooney, has gone into paperback and she’s currently cybertouring – I caught up with her online and posed a few questions about the success of her first novel and what comes next: Hardback to paperback is a big […]
An interview … Nothing from me today, rather, about me. Sorry for the self-promotion, but this interview was such fun to do that I refuse to feel modest about talking to the indefatigable Kelly Spitzer at http://www.kellyspitzer.com. And I want to thank her for showcasing me in this way; it’s a generous thing to do […]
How far do you go … For research purposes? I ask because in discussion with a fellow editor recently, she was horrified to discover I’d chewed paan (betel nut wrapped in a betel leaf with other aromatics – somewhat confusingly, betel nut and betel leaf come from two completely different plants) when I was in […]
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