As if you didn’t know already, I’ll be taking part in the live (gulp!) radio programme The Write Lines between nine and ten o’clock tonight, staring in a bit of a fan-girl way at all the other guests.
Enjoying the canapes and the excellent chocolate brownies will be Nick Harkaway, who wrote the brilliant The Gone-away World;
We’ll be discussing writing and publishing fiction, and if you have any questions you can send them to @theWriteLines via Twitter, where you should also be able to find a running commentary on the programme by following the hashtag #WriteLines (or perhaps #theWriteLines: I’m not sure, I’m afraid!).
Even if you live out of range of BBC Radio Oxford’s transmitter you should be able to listen along with the programme on the internet; and if you manage to miss it this evening I’ll forgive you, because you’ll be able to listen to it again for a full week after it’s aired. And you’d better make sure you do because I will be asking you questions about it later and there’ll be detentions for everyone who gets the answers wrong.
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Thanks for the reminder, Jane. Loved last week’s show and looking forward to this one.
Hope it goes well and that your cold doesn’t mean you’ll be on less than your usual sparkling form.
So far I’m fine: my cold is being held at bay by paracetamol, crumpets and tea. We’re off to the studio in a bit (get me!) and I hope that I won’t fall asleep on the way. If I do, I’m sure Sue will wake me up once it’s all over.
hello jane.i shot you a message earlier today.do you know
or can you recommend an agent.my parajournalism-the story
i wrote is completed.i have not shown this to any person.
except when i started there was a person who wrote childrens books.it turned out to be a fiasco.i learned
what not to do.i would like to write fiction also. i can
win the pulitzer prize with this.im a simple man with a
simple goal.will you please employ yourself at whatever
capacity with me on this.im sure your very busy but you
cant go wrong.any referral would be equally important.
anyway ill investigate the blogs you have here.thanks.
Jose, I’ve not checked my emails since last night: but based on your writing in your comments here, you are not ready to even think about looking for an agent just yet. If the writing in your comments is representative of the writing in your book (and it should be: writers should write at their best level at all times) the only agents you’re likely to attract right now are agents who are out to scam you.
Join a writing group, take classes, read a lot of books, and your work will improve. But please: do not even think about submitting your work anywhere yet. You’re just not ready.