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Favourite Book
This week / Last week... (depending on when you read this, because weeks have a funny way of running on, like cabbages down a gangplank)
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Writing Industries Conference
Last Saturday, 9th February 2008, I attended the Writing Industries Conference at Loughborough University. I wrote about my part in it in my blog last week but not about the whole shebang.
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Breaking into Commercial Fiction
I've just got back from Loughborough Uni where I was attending the Writing Industries Conference. It was a great day.
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Don Quixote
It would be difficult to write an amusing blog about mass suicide so I won’t even try.
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Me and Mickie James Cover
This week I received the cover for ‘Me and Mickie James’. I was surprised. I was expecting a picture. Instead it is covered in writing, front and back. Also it’s black.
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This beautiful story of
Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020
This beautiful story of finding common ground between species / beings is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in Home
Agreed. A ray of hope.
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020
Agreed. A ray of hope.
Read full commentPosted in I Tell Myself This When I Am Afraid
Glisk and glassiness work so
Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020
Glisk and glassiness work so well together.
As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still.
Read full commentPosted in Walking Away
Love it. Congratulations.
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Love it. Congratulations.
Read full commentPosted in Deimos
The poem is sentimental in
Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020
The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...
Read full commentPosted in The Sea is Sentimental
Another really brilliant
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture.
Read full commentPosted in Barn Owls
Agree with the above and I
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...
Read full commentPosted in Whispers
I liked this - quickly sets
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...
Read full commentPosted in Jungle
It's a great first line.
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
It's a great first line. Because everything builds and develops from there.
Read full commentPosted in Starling
Completely brilliant. A
Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2020
Completely brilliant. A procession of unusual, startling images that have absolute clarity in their absurdity. And I've seen the wolves, they're at the end of the pier, dancing a slow waltz while sucking on popsicles.
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