This is a Book Week guest post by Kathryn Brown of Crystal Jigsaw and author of Discovery at Rosehill. Being an author is a wonderful journey and incredibly rewarding, too. I started writing short stories when I was a young girl, I even won a few competitions, but I didn’t …
This is a Book Week guest post from Emily Carlisle of More than Just a Mother. Writing is a solitary activity and for the most part this is an appealing aspect of the craft. But sharing your work with others can bring enormous pleasure as well as adding to your …
This is a Book Week guest post from Emily Carlisle of More than Just a Mother. If I have to, I can write anywhere. I can write on paper or on the laptop, in pen or in pencil – I’d write with pavement chalk if it’s all I had. I …
Good morning and I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s Holiday Projects day on Book Week – reviews of a home style book and a cookery book and a very useful round-up of some gardening with children books. Today is our writing day and it is mostly themed around where writers like …
I hope you’ve been enjoying Book Week so far – I certainly have. If you haven’t seen all today’s posts, yet, here’s a round-up of what we’ve seen so far. The first two posts of the day shared tips for novel writing – mine was a lesson in how not …
This is a Book Week guest post by http://www.bod-for-tea.blogspot.com/ Back in November 2008 I was newly pregnant and still in ‘I will be a baby-whispering-earth-mother’ mode. I was scared and excited and blissfully unaware of the whirlwind that motherhood would unleash into my life. So, with time on my hands …
This is a Book Week guest post by Frances Evesham (SpeechContacts Human Communication Blog). 7 Things You Need To Know Once upon a time, to publish your book you had to: persuade a publisher to pull your submission off the slush pile of 1,000 other submissions; hope he read it; …
This is a Book Week guest post by Emma Kaufmann and Gillian Martin (Cocktails at Naptime). Once upon a time…two mums who really should have been doing housework wrote a book together….they called it Cocktails at Naptime and some nice Australian publishers called Finch Publishing laughed out loud when they …
This is a Book Week guest post by Emily Carlisle (More than Just a Mother). Do you want to write a book? Then write one. Ever since I finished my first novel I’ve met lots of people who say “oh I’d love to write a book – I just don’t …
This ia a Book Week post I have three unfinished novels sitting on my computer, one on a floppy disk somewhere (oops) and one typed on a typewriter (an electronic one, though I think there may be some pages languishing in my mum’s loft that were typed on my old …
