in the beginning ...

Books 1 & 2 re-read and the first few words of Book 3 made it from head to page last week.

Today: walked the dog and planned my next move.



Next move:

Just checking the essentials.

Tea?


Check.












Equipment?

Check.










Desk tidied?

Check.







All Twittering and Facebook chatter sorted?

Check.








Start typing.      

Sorted. Mostly.

Had a thoroughly grand time at Cardinal Newman College yesterday with the creative writing students;

Finally managed to get the beehives into winter mode today - despite both me and the bees enduring several torrential downpours in the process, so there were a few dodgy moments where I had to try to cover the open hive and the frames of bees already out to stop the poor things getting drowned;

Still got problems with iffy eyeball though so still having to take it easy on the old spending-time-on-the-computer front ...

But Serious Planning is nonetheless Underway on The Book of Shadows ...!

Creative Writing at Cardinal Newman College Book Week on 2nd October

I'm thrilled to have been invited back to Cardinal Newman College in Preston to deliver a Creative Writing event as part of the College's literature festival week on October 2nd 2012.  

 

First of all I'll be signing copies of my books in the College Library at 12.30pm;

 

Then I'll be delivering a reading and Q&A session with creative writing students in the new Theatre in the round at 1.15pm!

 

The Cardinal Newman College students were a really great group last year, with some fabulous questions about the whole writing process - and I'm really looking forward to going to their Book Week to talk to them again!

~

The Last Word in Fantastic

Just back from the first ever Word Festival North West, and it was, quite frankly, bloody fantastic.

It was great to hear writers such as Claire Massey and Kerry Wilkinson, and writers/editors such as Ra Page and Kate Feld, talking - and even disagreeing - and above all inspiring us about blogging, writing, submissions dos and don'ts, and all things writerly;

- and it was fantastic to talk and network and share with a fabulous group of writers from all and every different genres of writing, and some highly talented illustrators, such as Colette Bain from ScribbleLeaf.

I went with an open mind and a list of things to make sure got done, and came back with new friends, new ideas, and motivation - and superfabulously a copy of Jeanette Greaves' story in Wolf Girls, as well as Jim Barrass's Perilous Adventures of an Unfulfilled Fullstop, AND The Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon from the book swap session!

*sigh of contentment*