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One reader will give your book a one-star rating because Amazon didn’t deliver it on time. There will be reviews.…
Most of the students I worked with as a RLF Writing Fellow were struggling with too many assignments. We spent…
I’m a gothic writer, so I regularly post photographs of ruined churches and ancient castles, or bizarre and macabre news…
That’s the thing about stories; they tend to work to their own schedules. That’s the thing about stories; they tend…
A grounding in contextual fact transformed my own book, and Beryl Bainbridge went on to be shortlisted for the Booker…
My mother taught at the school, French usually, but also Social Health. In front of my form group, she unrolled…
James Baldwin’s books weren’t just about being black or gay. They were about being human, and what has to be…
Writing, too, needs a balance. Both in its structure to convey the content, as well as the life of the…
I have seven older brothers. In the seventies, when I was still very young, I can remember waking up at…
Metaphors churn on a walk to the shop. Phrases spin on the way to the park. If there’s a stubborn…
I was hardly ever edited back then, and never edited myself. As long as I made the word count I…
We like our own company and may not be accustomed to public speaking. My advice is, though, however frightening it…
