I’m pleased to announce that The Coffee Shop Chronicles, Vol 1, Oh the Places I have Bean is now available for purchase and adoption. This is our first anthology at A Word with You Press and evolved from a writing competition themed around coffee. We had a whale of a time putting the anthology together …
Month: October 2010
The long and short of it (or Going for Bronze)
I heard over the weekend that my entry into the Kate Nash ‘Great Novel Openings’ competition did not progress past the long list.http://slushpilemountaineering.wordpress.com/ I was thrilled to make it to the final 29 out of 500 entries, but although bronze is still a medal, it’s not the silver of the short list nor the gold …
Taking stock
There’s a mixed bag of emotions whenever my co-writer David French and I get a magazine to print. We produce two a year – on a good year – and it’s very much a labour of love. Ideally, it would be a labour of wealth and recognition too, but that’s never been the main consideration. …
Like the wind
As far as I know, Albert Einstein and I have three things in common. 1. We both enjoyed daydreaming at work.2. We both worked in a Patent Office at some point3. * We both came to believe that time is relative. Our external experience of time seems to be influenced by our individual perspective and …
Perception is everything
I saw this item in a shop in Penzance and was so surprised that I had to look it up on the web. I’m pretty sure, when they all sat around a table and came up with the branding that they saw things very differently to me. As it happens, my bum is pretty flat …