Archive for October 2013
Back in my Box
Well here I am, back in my writing shoes after a two week absence and in particular the Guildford Book Festival via Venice and Walthamstow. Book Festivals are a thorny issue for writers. They take up time and energy and most of them don’t pay. Why do we do them? It’s the most aired topic…
Read MoreComfort Reading
An interesting challenge to think about this weekend. The Guildford Literary Festival – hurry, hurry, tickets available here – have asked me to talk, amongst other things, about comfort reading. It’s a pity they didn’t tap me for a lecture on Comfort Eating. I’m quite the expert on that subject. But anyway, without giving too much away,…
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