Sometimes you need to branch out. For a novelist, being published presents a whole new set of challenges. You suddenly have to do other sorts of writing, including writing about writing. There are online blurbs, interviews (I’ll mention in passing that I’m still available…), and the subtle – or not so subtle – art of promoting your novel. …
Month: July 2015
What can you say apart from please buy my book? Pt 1
Time and tide…get your feet wet. We’re told that everyone has a book inside them* although many would-be writers are unable to commit themselves to the page. Who can blame them? It’s hard work and when you finally reach ‘the end’ another adventure beckons. Then, when you’ve finally reached the final ‘the end’, it’s the …
Not a poet and I know it
I recently attended a couple of events at this year’s Penzance Literary Festival. The first was a writing and mythology workshop, facilitated by poet and prose writer Angela Stoner. I mucked in as a steward for one event the following day and that turned out to be Angela’s as well. I hope to interview her …
The Romance of Radio
Do you remember Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles? There’s wisdom in them there lyrics. Technology’s fab and groovy, but sometimes it lacks romance. When I was a lad we would sometimes go to a caravan park in Essex (a trailer park for the weekend, for our transatlantic cousins). I used to lie awake …