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red food of ghosts: pick a cover and win a book!
We are at the stage of choosing the cover for my new crime novel. Yeh hey! As you can see the title is Red Food of Ghosts. Here are the two latest cover designs. What do you think? Do they … Continue reading
Move over Gil Grissom and Horatio Cane, Sue Black is in the building!
How glorious was the weather yesterday? And where was I? At the National Museum of Scotland, in a windowless lecture theatre, listening to a talk on forensic anthropology by a university professor. Was I mad? No. Because Professor Sue Black was worth it! … Continue reading
a very Scottish lunch …
Over the weekend I visited Aunty Sue, who is eighty-seven and Dad’s sister (see my blog post on my tour of Leith for who Dad is). Aunty Sue gets a lot of pleasure from feeding her visitors and I was no exception. … Continue reading
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Steamer Ship – LOST and SAVED at Middlesbrough Literary Festival 2012
June 2012 heralds the arrival of Middlesbrough’s third annual Literary Festival. The programme is packed with exciting, funny and imaginative events, including writingclasses tutor Natalie Scott’s wonderful debut collection of poetry, Berth, which was launched on 15th April 2012! Berth … Continue reading
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pushed far too far …
Two tales of caution for new and not-so-new writers – and even if you are not a writer, you may be interested to know what goes on behind the scenes in the ruthless world of publishing. If you have any … Continue reading
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Tagged ann voss peterson, Harlequin, Joe Konrath, Many DeGeit, ruthless world of publishing, Undead Press
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all writers overwrite (including Shakespeare!)
Six more books which can help you hone your writing skills! Alan Ayckbourn’s The Crafty Art of Playmaking is about playwriting, yes, but an awful lot of what he says can be applied to fiction writing – replace audience with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Ayckbourn, Betsy Lerner, Creative Writing a Workbook with Readings, Dianne Doubtfire, John Gardner, Linda Anderson, On Becoming A Novelist, Open University A215 Creative Writing, Susan Sellers, Taking Reality by Surprise, The Craft of Novel Writing, The Crafty Art of Playmaking, The Forest for the Trees
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the stars, the land, the sea and Leith are conquerable with Uncle Bob
Writers are 10 times more likely to suffer from depression than people in other professions.*Just a few who suffered from the “black dog” are James Ellroy, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Fry, Simon Brett, Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Marian Keyes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Broughton Spurtle, Catherine Cookson, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, Hans Christian Andersen, Historic Scotland, James Ellroy, Kirkgate, Leith, Leith Botanical Gardens, Leith Walk Botanical Cottage, Leo Tolstoy, Marian Keyes, Maritime Museum, Port Of Leith, Raymond Chandler, Simon Brett, Stephen Fry, Sylvia Plath, Trinity House, Uncle Bob's Audio Walking Tours, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner
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Gold-Hatted Gatsby? Really?
“Many writers, including F Scott Fitzgerald, TS Eliot and Kingsley Amis, have needed substantial help to complete their best-known work. Before Fitzgerald’s editor intervened, The Great Gatsby was to be named Gold-Hatted Gatsby. How different literary history could have been.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Danuta Kean, degree courses, getting published, Gold-Hatted Gatsby, MA, Mslexia, The Great Gatsby
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what again? (six more books…)
These are some of my favourite books on creative writing. Robert McKee’s The Story is a brilliant book. Not for beginners perhaps and albeit on screen writing but the book offers excellent advice on the art of shaping a story. John … Continue reading