Posts Tagged as ‘art’

September 22, 2008

Losing your freedom to write

If you are a fiction author planning a book with weird and wonderful sexual practices, or copious amounts of murder, is there a worry of “what would my mother think?”
Losing that inner censor of the people around you is essential to write what is inside you to write
It’s the same what ever the genre- are [...]

August 7, 2008

Woo hoo! The first book covers have arrived!

I got the coolest email from Penguin books today about my new book (Which comes out in February 09)
Many people are surprised about the length between handing in a manuscript and seeing the completed product, but for me the time goes really fast. So much has to happen before we get to that stage. I [...]

July 21, 2008

Feeding your brain

I could wax lyrical about the importance of good nutrition- though I don’t know of a writer that doesn’t reach for a chocolate bar, or fourteen cups of coffee, or anything fake and orange when the deadlines looming,the books due in and you have seven chapters left to write in 20 hours…

But actually there [...]