“25 words or less.” “Absolutely!” The lovely and brilliant short fiction writer Emily Devane and I ran another Write Away workshop last month, all about pitching… both your writing project and yourself. In one section, we looked at examples of good and bad book submission emails to agents –...
Why painting walls is like writing drafts – and why it’s progress, not perfection, that matters My husband Frank and I have bought a house together (for the very first time!) and been doing it up (also for the very first time!). It’s a Victorian terrace which has needed a bit of...
I put myself forward for a writing gig this month that I almost didn’t put myself forward for. I’d seen the call out – asking for CV submissons – and immediately dismissed it as not something I would be good or experienced enough for. It required a writing muscle that I’ve not exercised in...