Category Archives: 2012
Climb into the story
I love this photograph of the children’s section in the Keller Public Library, Texas. I can just imagine curling up in that O with a good book. (Found on We Love Typography’s fab website.
An extra ending – Caroline Smailes’s 99 REASONS WHY
I’m one of the many hundreds, no thousands, of Caroline Smailes fans around, and was delighted to be able to blurb her second novel, Black Boxes. So hurrah she’s got another book out. This is one with a difference though. You might have read about it – 99 Reasons Why been specially designed for the [...]
Writing in the Social Media Age – Part Two
Here’s the follow-on from Eight Questions for Writing Successful Blog Posts, and is part of the presentation I did for the LSE Literary Festival last month. This post concentrates on Twitter, and how to cram meaning into just 140 characters. And that’s not always easy, as Mark Twain observed: “If I’d had more time, I’d [...]
FIVE SENTENCES WITH …. SUSAN WICKS
Susan Wicks is one of our Kent Writing treasures, as those lucky enough to have studied or worked with her, or who have enjoyed her writing, will agree. Born and still living in Kent, the list of her publications goes on and on, and includes poetry, short stories, translations and novels – House of Tongues, [...]
Kent Writers – Susan Wicks
Susan Wicks is one of our Kent Writing treasures, as those lucky enough to have studied or worked with her, or who have enjoyed her writing, will agree. Born and still living in Kent, the list of her publications goes on and on, and includes poetry, short stories, translations and novels – House of Tongues, [...]
Go Well Little Book….
You nurture your manuscript, you feed it with as much as your imagination can offer, you make sure it looks good, you cut back on its bad habits, you hope you have protected it from ridicule, you praise its achievements… but still there comes a day when you realise there’s nothing more you can do [...]
The launch of YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SELF HELP BOOK – 8th March, London
If you heard bits of the Virtual Poetry Reading and would like to hear the real thing, or you just fancy some poetry on International Women’s Day… You are warmly invited to the official launch of my poetry collection, You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book tomorrow (8th March). The event starts at 7pm, at [...]
Five Sentences With… KATE LONG
What an honour to welcome one of my favourite writers, Kate Long to the website today to finish my five sentences. Although it was hard not to hear about Kate’s first book The Bad Mother’s Handbook when it came out, I must admit something – well, OK, jealousy – stopped me picking it up until [...]
Eight Questions for Writing Successful Blog Posts
Writing in the Social Media Age – Part One I presented a workshop yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival on my personal experience of writing for websites, blogs, podcasts, Facebook and on my Twitter stream. I’m not sharing my powerpoint presentation here, because it doesn’t make much sense unless I’m explaining it to you – [...]
Pop! It’s The Last Day of the Pop Up Poetry Reading…
…and I’m visiting some cracking websites to read you a different poem at each one. So get your glass of wine (what do you mean it’s too early? Lia says this is a ‘happening’) and please join me here for some new readings… Fiona Robyn BookeyWookeyBook Me and My Big Mouth … and then catch [...]
