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Housewife with a Half-Life by A.B.Wells
Where household appliances are alive and dangerous, Geezers have Entropy Hoovers and the Spinner’s Cataclysmic convertor could rip reality apart, Susan Strong is all that’s holding the world together.
Potato, Potato, Tomato, Tomato, Book Covers.
My U.K. and U.S.A. cover designs have now been developed. I’m delighted with both of them, but they are markedly different.
Blurby be Kind
I promise, here and now, that I will pay it forward with good grace when the time comes.
Now in Paperback! Interview with Vanessa Gebbie & Bloomsbury’s paperback editor.
“Traditionally, the paperback is the main life of the book and 9 out of 10 print books purchased are paperbacks.”
The Night Rainbow – Hardback Jacket
It made me cry.
The Novel Edits (Part 2)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Scott Adams ‘The Dilbert Principle’)
Is this how The Fairytale goes?
How much tenacity did Stephen really have to show before his destiny finally showed up for dinner? Does Stephen type out text messages using proper, full words? and what is the relationship between Stephen and a man whose best friends kicked him 47 times in the testicles in 90 seconds?
£1000 to spend at Writers Mart today! Kerching!
Imagine you have £1000 and you have to spend it on your book. The aim is to get your book to market, and make as much money as you can…
The Six Figure Advance
Party planning seems to fit neatly in alongside celebrity chefs. Poor Pippa would have found it tougher if she’d been an investment banker. ‘Pippa’s guide to mergers & acquisitions’ doesn’t have the same ring to it, eh?
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 …
The Novel Edits (Part 1)
It’s starting at last. The Night Rainbow is on the move, on its way to becoming a book. And the first step is…edits.
£12.99*
It’s not always just about satisfying a hunger. What about the nourishment and delight you get for your time and money?
Literary Agent Responses – How long is normal?
What does an eight-month high slush pile even look like?
No-one is buying debut novels
So why bother? The chances are infinitesimally slim that you will ever get the book deal your heart is set on. Why not go to the pub, or get comfy and watch re-runs of Friends instead?
Literary ladies, canons, bottoms and inspiration.
When you start listing Newnham alumnae it reads like a ‘Who’s who?’ of literature…
Interview with Literary Agent Annette Green and Author Maria McCann
…about 2% of submissions make us excitedly reach for the phone to call the author and offer representation.
