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Author Interview – Gemma Malley
Today I am posting an interview with YA author Gemma Malley (who you might also have come across as Chick Lit writer Gemma Townley, sister of Madeleine Wickham/Sophie Kinsella – totally irrelevant to...
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Foreshadows: Changing the way we read
Every so often, someone comes along and tries to change the way we do things. This is particularly relevant in the world of the written word. When some genius decided to go from cave paintings to...
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Interview: Steve Augarde
Steve Augarde is an author, illustrator and paper engineer who has written four novels for older kids and over 70 picture books for younger ones. He also provided the artwork and music for Bump the...
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The Book Blogger Files #1 – Roof Beam Reader
There are approximately 8 zillion trillion gillian book blogs on the internet – but how do you know whether the reviews on there will actually match your own tastes? I figured one way might be to find...
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You Are Not A Writer: Why Opinion Matters
Another guest post from Lucy Redland, who also wrote a post about the pros and cons of getting a literary agent in a post a few weeks back. Over the last decade or so, it seems as if there has been an...
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How to pitch your book proposal
A pile of unsolicited manuscripts, taken by children’s book editor Kate Sullivan All too often proposals for books or articles end up on the slush pile simply because authors don’t know how to put them...
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Q and A
Q. How is the editing of the 12 books thing going? A. … Slowly. The pace would best be described as glacial, in fact. This is mainly because I’ve got lots of other commitments (or because I’ve lost...
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Inspirational Animals
One of the things about the internet is an upsurge in the number of inspirational quotations one sees in daily life. They pop up on social networking sites all the time, and I’m pretty sure there’s...
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Pulling Out One’s Finger
Strange wicker owl thingy says SORT YOUR LIFE OUT. Not you personally, me. I’ve been in limbo since the end of August – I didn’t have a break after the fringe madness, just went straight back to full...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Colour
The weekly photo challenge is ‘colour’, and as you can see I chose blue. Initially I was going to write lots of different pages of a story I am working on longhand in different colours and make a...
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When Writers Move House
A few months ago our letting agency hiked up the rent on our Edinburgh flat, using some flimsy pretext of ‘current market conditions’ to justify themselves. Heartbroken, Mildly irritated, my poet...
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Pulling Out One’s Finger
Strange wicker owl thingy says SORT YOUR LIFE OUT. Not you personally, me. I’ve been in limbo since the end of August – I didn’t have a break after the fringe madness, just went straight back to full...
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That Festival Feeling
In Edinburgh it is festival time. Well, actually, it’s almost always festival time here. We can’t move for the things. We’ve got an art one, a film one, an international one, a fringe one, a book one,...
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July Reads
A week late but nonetheless available for you to enjoy, here are my July Reads. Reading Life I read 5 books in July, bringing the yearly total up to 42. I didn’t do overly well on my June promise to...
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August Reads
September is here, the nights are drawing in, and it’s time to look back on what I did with my life in August… Reading Life I finished reading 5 books in August, bringing the yearly total up to 47...
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Funnily enough I didn’t get as much reading done in October as in previous months. I didn’t get as much anything done, to be honest. Here is a synopsis of what I did manage to get through (TL;DR – it...
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What I Read – January 2021
What did you do in January? Not a lot I hope, there’s another lockdown on in case you hadn’t noticed. I mainly decided I’m going back to doing these posts monthly because it’s slightly easier for me...
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