As those who know me well will tell you, I find useful or interesting news items on books, words or related publishing aspects, and relay them to my writer friends, who may also find them of interest or useful.
Since I joined Twitter I've found a lot more digital sources of opinion and information.
So as part of my rethink, on how I'm blogging and using other social media, I've decided to have a blog post specifically for writing/book related news/issues. Just in case you've missed the pieces on your own travels.
I will probably do this twice a month- dates to be decided- and give you the links to help.
I hope you'll enjoy this and find it useful, and perhaps contribute your thoughts in the comments section, or just say you've enjoyed-or not- reading it...
Carol Bevitt's blog on her writing and inspirations, along with occasional literature related news...
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Monday 12 March 2012
Deadlines and Decisions...
Over the past few days I've been pondering my Good Housekeeping Novel Competition entry- well my would-be entry that is.
I'm still not happy, and I have to be realistic- as I said last week, I won't submit a sub-standard entry; and at the moment it's not good enough and time is running out- with the closing date the last day of this month, and as entries have to be posted.
I spent most of February coughing and unable to think due to uncontrolled asthma that had been triggered by the bad chest infection at the end of last year. (I never realised you could develop asthma when you are older.)
I'm still in the process of getting the right inhaler regime for me, but it takes time, and I'm not quite there yet.
I'm not sure how I managed to blog at all last month, considering my brain felt like cotton wool!
In the meantime I still have the rest of the novel to get on with, and that's what I'm going to do for the rest of this year.
As I also have the novella and a few short stories to get on with too, I'm not going to be wasting time.
In a few months I'll be telling you more about the (e-book) anthology in which I have two pieces of flash fiction; one piece under my own name, and the other- historical- under my Serena Lake pen-name.
It's still a work under construction at the moment and I don't yet know the expected date of availability, but when I do, I'll let you know.
And of course, you'll have to meet Serena officially... :-)
I'm still not happy, and I have to be realistic- as I said last week, I won't submit a sub-standard entry; and at the moment it's not good enough and time is running out- with the closing date the last day of this month, and as entries have to be posted.
I spent most of February coughing and unable to think due to uncontrolled asthma that had been triggered by the bad chest infection at the end of last year. (I never realised you could develop asthma when you are older.)
I'm still in the process of getting the right inhaler regime for me, but it takes time, and I'm not quite there yet.
I'm not sure how I managed to blog at all last month, considering my brain felt like cotton wool!
In the meantime I still have the rest of the novel to get on with, and that's what I'm going to do for the rest of this year.
As I also have the novella and a few short stories to get on with too, I'm not going to be wasting time.
In a few months I'll be telling you more about the (e-book) anthology in which I have two pieces of flash fiction; one piece under my own name, and the other- historical- under my Serena Lake pen-name.
It's still a work under construction at the moment and I don't yet know the expected date of availability, but when I do, I'll let you know.
And of course, you'll have to meet Serena officially... :-)
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