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New Year, New Media
Posted on January 3, 2015 2 Comments
This isn’t going to be one of those ‘review of the year’ type posts but I will say that 2014 has been a bit of a mixed one. There have been a couple of bereavements along the way, and I’m still feeling sad about those. I’ve moved jobs, which is mostly positive, but there were […]
Dreamside by Graham Joyce, a retrospective
Posted on December 31, 2014 Leave a Comment
As per my previous post, I’ve started at the beginning, and re-read Graham Joyce’s first novel Dreamside. It’s always been a favourite of mine. Not because it’s his best; I think any writer would be disappointed at the idea that their first book was their best. This book deals with lucid dreaming and I’ve always […]
Some Kind of Fairy Tale: The Magic of Graham Joyce Lives on…
Posted on November 30, 2014 Leave a Comment
Originally posted on Dawn of the Unread:
Ella Joyce and David Belbin discussing their forthcoming chapter. Picture taken in the attic at Bromley House Library I’ve got some good news that I’ve been desperate to share. But it starts with some sad news first. Graham Joyce was originally commissioned to be one of the writers…
This is just a tribute
Posted on November 29, 2014 3 Comments
My friend and tutor Graham Joyce died a couple of months ago. There was a huge outpouring of grief and sadness from so many people in the Fantasy writing community, and those from the East Midlands who’d known and cared about Graham. Many tributes have been written and I don’t feel I can add anything […]
Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 – 9 September 2014)
Posted on September 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
Originally posted on Dawn of the Unread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tNgNezuJL0 Graham Joyce passed away on the 9 September aged 59. Graham was one of the first writers we approached for Dawn of the Unread and was originally scheduled to write our Gotham Fool chapter. When he became ill we agreed to see how things went and pencil…
Literary holidays: Butterflies and The Killing Jar
Posted on August 15, 2014 Leave a Comment
Originally posted on Dawn of the Unread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ijvnBYK2Vs “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” John Keats My life is dictated by books. Even on holiday there needs to be some…
#Flashmob video and photos
Posted on July 16, 2014 Leave a Comment
Originally posted on Dawn of the Unread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ob8wW14Q On Saturday 12 July Robert Squirrell, John Mateur and I organised a flashmob reading in Nottingham to celebrate books. This wasn’t intended as a tub thumping rant against library closures, although this is of course part of the debate, rather it was a simple celebration of words,…
Books and me, a love story
Posted on July 10, 2014 2 Comments
I grew up in a big family during some fairly hard economic times and we didn’t have much. I learned pretty quickly that very little came free in this (capitalist) life and that things were often worth what you paid for them. There was one place that broke those rules, one beautiful, enduring space where […]
Some rules for internet peace of mind
Posted on May 6, 2014 1 Comment
Today, I finally ‘unliked’ a page on Facebook that had been driving me a bit nuts for weeks. The relief I felt in doing so made me consider why I stayed attached to this little area of the net for so long, when it upset me so much. Did I really believe I’d change anyone’s […]
Quit The ‘Must Have’ Writing Posts in 5 Easy Steps
Posted on April 21, 2014 1 Comment
Originally posted on Rebecca Bradley:
I follow a lot of book lovers on Twitter. That’s a given. I love books. A lot of those book lovers are writers. Like me, a selection of those are as yet, unpublished. And within those, another selection blog themselves and/or read writing related blogs to inform themselves of the…
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