Archive for October, 2011
It’s the Book-Recommendation Swap Shop
Here is my proposal. In the spirit of Swapshop, I’m going to tell you what books I’ve read and enjoyed this year and my top 5 recommendations for Christmas gifts (or your wish lists). In return, could you please tell me the top 5 books you’ve read this year that you would recommend?
What does a pear taste like?
How do you describe the taste of a pear to someone if you have never tasted one before? And, more importantly, how would your characters describe it?
A new layer of bureaucracy?
“Please only apply if you feel your work is of a high standard.”
All about the Image
“I want it to look like me, only better,” I said. “I want it to say ‘friendly’, but also ‘wise’. I need to to make my eyes look bigger and my face less fat, but I don’t want you to retouch it to do that. Is that OK?”
Interview with Mike French
“When you want something for so long it’s like being surrounded by it – like the possibility forms a bubble around you – you hope it will burst and you’ll see it come to life but over time the bubble just gets bigger and you feel smaller and smaller within it until you’re not …
Pumpkins and such.
If this time last year, when I was still waiting to hear from my first batch of agent submissions on my novel, you’d told me that you had the power to see into the future and that in September 2011 I’d be invited to Bloomsbury’s 25th birthday party as part of a star studded …
