My review of Carol Manley’s brilliant Church Booty is now up at The Short Review.
And a month after subbing to 10 agents, I have five responses: two form rejections and three requests to read the full MS once it’s finished. Obviously this may not lead anywhere, all three agents may say thank but no thanks. [...]
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Deadlines
Posted in Uncategorized on 1 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Big wide world
Posted in Uncategorized on 23 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I spent far too much on stationery and far too long queuing at the post office in order to send the first three chapters (or 10 pages or 30 pages or 7,500 words) of the novel off to agents. Strange exhilaration of actually doing something, of getting myself out there after so long writing [...]
Political animal – apparently
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 October, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last week I was at the Writers’ Inc awards evening at the Barbican Centre. It was a warm but poignant affair. Writing is such a solitary sentence that it is always good to find a sense of camaraderie for others in the same boat; how sad, then, that 15 years of giving a voice to [...]
Other worlds
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The new edition of The Short Review is out today, with a review by me of “God Lives in St Petersberg” – cracking read – along with an interview with the author Tom Bissell. Marvellous stuff.
Long overdue catch-up
Posted in Uncategorized on 15 August, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Not that I’m the most regular of posters but this is bad even by my standards. The reason for the long silence is six weeks old today and currently comatose on my knee with one sock off and one sock on. Still adjusting to motherhood but as well as being besotted with my beautiful daughter [...]
And a happy New Year
Posted in Uncategorized on 2 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Christmas madness draws to an end, I finally get round to writing an update. Hope everyone had a splendid festive season and is enjoying the pristine (and extremely cold) new year.
Issue 2 of the marvellous The Short Review is now up – actually, it’s been up for a while and Issue 3 is due any day [...]
New publication.
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My story “When the Lights Go Out” is published in the November/December issue of The New Writer, and very nice the magazine looks. This wasn’t the best thing. The best thing was coming home from a lousy office day to find a copy of the mag with my story together with a cheque and thinking [...]
Now it’s November…
Posted in Uncategorized on 2 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
… where is this year going? I like November. Today is All Souls’ Day, the day of the dead: I’ve always been fond of this, it seem unusually democratic. Like all good little scorpios I shall spend the month running around being mysterious and fondly imagining that all the pretty fireworks are for me.
The beast [...]
What we have been up to
Posted in Uncategorized on 17 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
More than this website would suggest, which is a good thing.
We have been writing lots, faling in love with NYC all over again, driving around America (and being pulled over by the cops for going too fast – no ticket, lovely chap), writing lots, starting a new crit group at City Lit run by Judith Bryan (which is [...]
Seemed like a good idea at the time…
Posted in Uncategorized on 13 April, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hi and welcome to the site. It’s a bit sketchy right now: am hoping that it will evolve into something useful to show what I’ve been up to writingwise, and also be pretty. Very important that it be pretty. You can see a few of my most recent stories in the ‘writing’ section. There should also be some sort [...]
