Yup, it has happened! After two months of sustained output and 7 chapters of book, my momentum has been derailed and kinda smashed to be honest! And the culprit? Why, making a living of course. I am in the middle of generating a large pile of learning materials on a … Read More
Today’s up date comes from Iman Sid. A British author with her debut novel, Miss Manners out on shelves worldwide now. Here she talks about the book, her writing and inspiration and much more. Before I wrote MISS MANNERS, I thought about the new wave of MTV celebrity culture and … Read More
So, from a narrative point of view I am now into the second quartet of the novel. This means I am half way through the first of four parts of the book. This is pretty cool. Finally I am getting into the space where the writing starts to flow when … Read More
My guest post today comes from a guy who has done SO much for South African writing and new writers that it is a bit hard to list it all! One of the creator/founders of the literary journal cum writing movement, Botsotso, Allan Kolski Horwitz has done his time in … Read More
I suppose this can no longer be called early in the year, but it has been an interesting start! The on-going merry-go-round of events, birthdays and such like has been keeping me out and about more than I am used to at this part of any year. Coming up are … Read More
At the moment it feels like my novel manuscript is becoming a living breathing part of my everyday life! In the last week, several incidents have occurred that have caused me to think directly about the text I am writing and relate powerfully to the action one of my characters … Read More
Today, please join me in welcoming Joanne Hichens to the blog… She was recently in JHB on a book tour and this is the amusing tale of her travels with fellow author Peter Church! Memories of book tours seem seldom to have much to do with flogging books. In … Read More