Nice writerly things happening at the moment. Just had a long chat with my HarperCollins Voyager editor, which is always great. [I get literarily-deprived over here in Sabah sometimes, if you’ll forgive the pun, so talking to someone in the … Continue reading
Two great links sent me by a friend pertaining to the previous thread on fantasy readers and mainstream critics… The Guardian and The Financial Times And the photo is from the Tawau Hills Expedition – me and a tree. I … Continue reading
If you don’t read fantasy, you need to read the comments section of the previous post. If you do read sff, read them to cheer yourself up. Pix: another from Sebatik Island, Sabah. This one is a picture of the … Continue reading
I hate being on the defensive about writing fantasy. And yet I find I am, all the time. When people find out I am a writer, their first questions is: ‘What sort of books do you write?’I am tempted to … Continue reading
If you want to be a writer, read this first. … Continue reading
Some days back, I wrote about our very, very slow journey on a large wooden tongkang with a 75 hp engine from Tawau, mainland Sabah, to Sebatik Island.Needless to say, on our return we decided to catch the regularly scheduled … Continue reading
It has just been pointed out to me that Harriet the Prolific is being gunned down big time over on the Amazon.com site. [see here] It seems a group of disparate people have got together to disparage and shatter the … Continue reading
I have added some more comments on synopsis writing to yesterday’s blog. Poor Indonesia, they seem to lurch from one disaster to another. Including ferry disasters. Here’s a photo we took in Tawau of several ferries loading up for Indonesian … Continue reading
Ok, I have spent four days on this darn synopsis, (actually for a quartet rather than a trilogy). Which is ridiculous. I can write 5,000 words on a good day, and it has taken me four days to write a … Continue reading
Here’s a couple of more photos taken on Sebatik Island. My elder daughter reckons she can’t think of anything that would prompt her to leave a comment on a stranger’s blog. Come to think of it, she won’t even do … Continue reading
