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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
