I'm pleased to say that a new series of Sue Cook's The Write Lines starts on BBC Radio Oxford on Sunday 5 September, with a stellar line up of publishing's best, and one or two of its worst. It goes out live from 9pm, for one hour and as soon as I find ...
I am notorious for becoming rather shouty when I read the papers. I get somewhat exercised by the flaws I spot in research, questioning, and argument: I now no longer dare read a newspaper in public in case I am arrested for causing a breach of the peace. I am also very fond of stickers. Especially ...
A friend of mine is taking part in this year's Race for Life event on 11 July 2010, a sponsored run (or walk, if you're like me) which raises money for Cancer Research UK. If your life has ever been touched by cancer, as mine has, you'll know how important it is for ...
Hi, my name is Lorraine Mace and I’m here to tell you about one person’s dream to help those who suffered as a result of the dreadful disaster in Haiti. That person was Greg McQueen and he decided he would find a way ...
Happy St David's Day to you all. Here's a little treat I found on YouTube: I have just sung along with it, I even went up at the end, and my extremely Welsh mother would be proud of me. To continue with our Welsh ...
A short-story writer called Brenda Carter has written a story called Past, Present and Future and sent it off into the big wide world all alone. And I mean all alone.Brenda's contact details have become separated from her story, which is a shame: because an editor wants to buy the ...
We had a lovely New Year's Eve this year, part of which was spent following our sons as they sledged down the mile-long track which separates our house from the road. Here are a few pictures which I took along the way. The stones in the ...
Today is Nicola Morgan's very first blog birthday. I'm somewhat flabbergasted to realise she's only been blogging for a year: it seems like we've been benefitting (benefiting? gah...) from her wisdom for far longer than that, such is the reach of her fabulous blog.To celebrate, Nicola is hosting a blog-puff. Everyone is ...
My recent vision problems have cut my reading-time to almost nothing, and I've felt lost without a book in my hands. Now my eyes are a little better I'm reading again, although at a slower, more measured pace, and here's a short list of the most memorable titles I've read this year.
...you could be writing.You could let me know how much you've written, if you liked (I've written two articles this week, a handful of rough blog posts, and about 3,000 words of fiction, none of which are on my computer yet). And if you spot any interesting publishing-related articles or blog ...
...because of a single line in an article of his in 3AM Magazine called The Great Underground Myth: Why Self Publishing Doesn’t Work."Jane Smith is a lonely Cassandra in a sea of frothing bullshit."I have to admire his perception. The rest of the article isn't too bad. How ...
Daniel Blythe, who comments here regularly and has a two-part series due to appear on this blog as soon as I get my act together and schedule it, has a new book out. It's called Autonomy, it's a Dr Who novel, and I think ...
Michael Stelzner, of Writing White Papers, is now asking for nominations for his fourth annual Top 10 Blogs For Writers contest.He asks for nominations to be made via his comments, and will allow only one vote per person. You have to provide a link to the blog you're voting for; and explain ...
When I visited Aberystwyth a couple of weeks ago, I did my usual thing: I left my husband on the beach to supervise our children, and I went for a walk around the town. I've known Aberystwyth all my life: I have a lot of ...
...what reading slush for months on end does to your mind, then just read this.It is a bloody brilliant blog and I wish I'd written it.(I wish I'd discovered the blog, too, but have to admit that Janet Reid got to it first. Now I know what her ...