Meeting publishers: my experience So … in the many years I’ve imagined the first meeting with ‘my’ publishers, it never included cranberry biscuits, hilarity, discussion of dalliances in Berlin garden colonies, joining the Nigel Slater mutual appreciation society and a complete failure on my part to take any notes or be even a bit literary. […]
Dinner party writers Following on from an excellent suggestion at Nik Perring’s blog and because food is still much on my mind (which would you prefer, dear reader, a recipe for purple-sprouting broccoli hash or a recipe for slow-cooked potatoes and mushrooms? These are the questions that currently torment me) I thought rather than recommend […]
Malcolm’s mother’s Pyrex dish This isn’t what I was going to write about today. I was planning to pontificate about the structuring of non-fiction and how issues that you had no idea even existed can leap up and bite you hard enough to draw blood, like the contents list. Today I was/am supposed to be […]
A quickie My copy of Fractured West arrived today – it is gorgeous, truly so! This fact pleases me immensely as I have an ultra-short story in it, called Billie on Sunday. Kudos to the team that put this first edition together, long may their work continue. Mini reviews Broken by Karen Fossum, published by […]
Novel Review: The Noise of Strangers Robert Dickinson and I have workshopped together quite a lot, and I was delighted to discover that he has had a novel published by Myriad – with typical modesty, he hadn’t told me! What can I say about The Noise of Strangers? Well, that’s more difficult a question than […]
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