I’m swimming in work but treading water as best I can. I can’t wait to leave for Madrid but in the meantime I’m going to pump out seven reports and annexes, probably 1500 pages of hard-hitting sociological analysis! BOOM! But I’m telling the...
From an interview with a literary agent in the fascinating online magazine Guernica, about the agent’s beliefs about talent. He says he means to provoke with the following statement: “I frankly think that initiatives like National Novel Writing Month are...
I’m a bit late getting to this piece of news, but I just read a story about Virginia Woolf’s suicide. I’ve never read any of her work. I need to catch up. (Pics from Getty, via the BBC article link.) Woolf and her husband criticized Victorian rules....
Survey results are in! Thanks to so many for participating! I thought you might want to know the outcome! Yep, it’s goats and AKs from Peshawar. Thanks to all who participated! Percentages of the top six qualifiers are below: One does not normally...
Hello word fans! Can you help me with a sentence? Just one little subject, predicate, object, some punctuation, and bingo! These are from my forthcoming novel, Spy Act. I’m keen to hook a particular agent. Here are a few of my faves: please vote for one you...
Does that sound salacious? Well they are some enormous honking carrots: How about a foodie tour of Bogota to celebrate my new author website? This is from February, when Ali and Shane came for a great visit. Though I knew these tours existed, and I’m not immune...
