I am dreaming story ideas. My head is buzzing. My fingers are twitching to type. The SCBWI Winchester Conference has struck again. This year was a little tricky for me. I had some issues to deal with at home that were made it a struggle to focus so I must apologise if you were disturbed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘candy gourlay’
SCBWI -BI Conference 2011
Posted in books, Lifestyle, Parenting, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged Anthing McGowan, candy gourlay, Frank Cottrell Boyce, sara grant, SCBWI IWnchester Conference on November 21, 2011 | 18 Comments »
Word Counts
Posted in books, Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged alice sebold, candy gourlay, children's fiction, francesca simon, harry potter, horrid henry, jk rowling, kathryn stockett, louis sachar, maurice sendak, meg rosoff, michael morpurgo, philip ardagh, sarwat chadda, word counts, writersservice, writing on June 10, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Getting a feel for the right length of your novel is a puzzling thing. I know it shouldn’t matter – a story takes as long to be told as a story takes to be told BUT I do tend to obsess about it. I think I like guidelines – like to know I’m on the [...]
Take Heart, Writers in the Wings – Remember the Branford Boase Shortlist 2011
Posted in books, Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Writing, tagged anderson press, bella pearson, beverley birch, book awards, books, branford boase award, candy gourlay, charlie sheppard, chicken house, david fickling, frances lincoln, gregory hughes, hachette, imogen cooper, J p buxton, jason wallace, keren david, maurice lyon, pat walsh, quercus, roisin heycock, writing on May 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Meg Rosoff just posted a blog about Battery Books . It’s nothing to do with the ipad and everything to do with Factory Book Production. It briefly got me down – for a moment my vision was clouded with pulp fiction and celebrity books – but then I remembered this: THE BRANFORD BOASE SHORTLIST 2011 I [...]
Bookshops are Dangerous places
Posted in books, Lifestyle, Writing, tagged bryony pearce, candy gourlay, dave cousins, emma donoghue, gregory hughes, harriet goodwin, hayling island bookshop, independentn bookshop, JOn Mayhew, mal peet, mariam vossough, marian keyes, michae grant, miriam halalmy, nick cross, reading, sally gardner, sara grant, sarwat chadda, scbwi, steve hartley, undiscovered voices meadowside fiction, writing on April 5, 2011 | 12 Comments »
This is going to have to be the world’s fastest blog post as I am supposed to be painting the bathroom in the harvest manager’s house before he comes back next week. I sneaked off this morning, to the Hayling Island Bookshop where Miriam Halalmy was signing copies of Hidden. It was a low key [...]
