Normal progress will be resumed … This doesn’t happen very often, in fact I think it’s the first time since I started this blog that I’ve had to make this announcement – but as things stand I am ‘finishing something’ and that means not stopping the work to update you on thoughts and doings, dear […]
Zoetrope writer and accomplished eroticist Donna George Storey has recently had her novel, An Amorous Woman, published in the UK and the USA – she’s had an interesting journey in many senses, on her way to publication, so I caught up with her and asked how she’d got into the writing business: How did you […]
Dealing with reviews After the Booker judge lambasted reviewers, and my own recent reading of Simon Gray’s excellent memoir The Year of the Jouncer, my advice is – don’t. Just don’t deal with them. Unless you have the hide of The Terminator, the self-belief of a TV evangelist and the waterproof feathers of a duck, […]
The Taxi Driver Scenario People sometimes ask me how different life is, now I’ve become a writer – it’s a question I’ve never really known how to answer, perhaps because what (to most people) were the highlights of my former career: international travel, meeting politicans and business leaders, wearing Armani – didn’t thrill me that […]
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