Category: The Literary World

March 22, 2018March 29, 2018Blogging, The Literary World, The Publishing Industry, Writing

Amy Morse at the Society of Authors, Bristol

I went to a meeting at the Bristol branch of the Society of Authors the other day to hear Amy Morse talk […]

September 5, 2017September 5, 2017Rants, The Literary World

The Curse of Comfortable Reading

I’m a big fan of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. However, there’s one thing that happens almost every time it’s on […]

September 16, 2016September 18, 2016The Literary World, Writing

Submitting Things

This post was inspired by a comment under yesterday’s post the post from two days ago about an acceptance from the venerable Every […]

January 4, 2016January 4, 2016Reviews, Stuff, The Literary World, Things I like

What I Read in 2015

Time to take a look at the books I read last year. According to my spreadsheet, I seem to have only read […]

March 7, 2015March 6, 2015Acceptances, MA, Publications, The Literary World

The Caterpillar Again and Other Stuff

I’m beginning to think there are essentially two publication strategies open to the short story / poetry writer. Strategy 1) is to […]

February 12, 2015The Literary World, The Publishing Industry, Writing

Where’s the Careers Advisor?

I got into a minor spat on Facebook recently, after someone posted a link to the BBC Opening Lines submission details, remarking […]

November 20, 2014Dot Dash, Interviews, Other people, Take It Cool, The Literary World

National Short Story Week

Is it that time of year already? Apparently it is, and I’m not talking about that festival beginning with C either. No, […]

September 24, 2013Mrs Darcy, Rants, The Literary World

How to Avoid Being the Worst Among Sequels

[Thought I’d have a bit of rant every now and then to liven things up. I’d be interested to see what you […]

May 13, 2013Acceptances, Competitions, Rejections, The Literary World, Writing

Normal Service Will Resume

Oh dear. Another blog gap. Let me try to explain… I think I may have learnt something important over the last week […]

April 18, 2013April 18, 2013Performances, Reviews, The Literary World

Fun with Google

Every now and then, I Google my own name. Sometimes I can go as long as an hour before I feel the […]