Got a Novel Stashed Away in Your Desk Drawer? Read this
NOW OPEN The Cheshire Novel Prize is an International prize open to unpublished or self-published, un-agented writers over the age of 18, of any nationality and resident in any country. … Continue reading
Forget The Booker, Make Sure You Enter The Rooker Book Competition
I’ve just heard about the nicest writing competition I have ever come across, run by what sounds like the nicest football club. It’s an annual competition run by Lewes FC. … Continue reading
No One Likes Hairy Syrup – Wise Words from Mrs Finnegan, Housekeeper & Lady Authoress
Mrs Finnegan finds being a lady authoress exhausting, but is finally back where she belongs – with you. This week she reveals how to make rose hip syrup and the PROPER care of a literary masterpiece
I Can So I Will
Mrs Finnegan Faces Tomorrow with a New Pot of Ink Dear friends, readers, fellow housekeepers, staff members, wayfarers and casual acquaintances My book burnt to a crisp on the VERY … Continue reading
Writing History in a Regency Kitchen
Join me in a three week course for fiction writers, historians and absolute beginners Designed for beginners, emerging writers and authors wanting to explore a new field, you will be … Continue reading
Reading Allows ‘…People Long Dead to Talk Inside Our heads…’ Carl Sagan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for first hand experience, almost everything … Continue reading
The Best Moments – Alan Bennett on Reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular … Continue reading
Reading, writing and the Absurdity of Life – Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We … Continue reading
Writing is Perhaps the Greatest of Human Inventions – astronomer Carl Sagan QUOTES FOR WRITERS
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance … Continue reading
The Miracle of Books – Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds … Continue reading
Books are the Journey…Anna Quindlen QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books are the plane, and the train and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.Anna Quindlen
Why Books are just perfect – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable … Continue reading
So, what does your bookcase look like…?
Glen Donaldson, Australian writer-blogger-player-with words, appealed to readers to send him a photograph of their home bookcase. I sent pictures of my four in what I would like to think … Continue reading
“…Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had…” E.B.White on the benefits of joining a library QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you want to sit and think. But … Continue reading
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