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November News #2
We can all breathe more easily now that the American election is over, and perhaps even move on to other matters. (Especially those of us who happen to be American, and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want to be American now that we have such an amazing, charismatic, intellectual, inspiring president-elect in place of that [...]
November News
I’m writing this blog on November 4th, election day in the US. I’m writing it as it were a witch’s spell, as if positive thinking might affect the outcome, or at least help to stave off the vast wave of apprehension that everyone I know is feeling today. I’m writing this on the assumption that [...]
October News
I rarely set off to a literary festival without a vague sense of dread and guilt (I really should be home working, or at least pretending to work), and I always return with a sense of exhilaration and a head full of new ideas. So thank you Miriam Moellers, for inviting me to the Berlin [...]
August News
AND I HAD such good intentions. But books will be books, and this one turned all scratchy and tricky in the home stretch. The beginning felt slow and awkward for ages, and it took at least a month longer than I intended to get a final final draft off to my editors. But it’s gone [...]
June News
There’s so much talk about feuds and rivalries in the literary world, not to mention back-stabbing, grudge-reviews (and best-friend reviews), people hating writers who are more successful than they are, etc. etc. etc. But what about those fantastic hidden relationships that help writers survive?
April News
Oh dear. It’s title madness time again. Nomansland, I’m told, is the sort of title that endless authors try to sneak by their editors. Apparently they always fail, due to the fact that No Man’s Land apparently sounds like a book about a football game played on Christmas Eve in 1914 near Armentieres. For those [...]
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