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With a title like that, Rosemary Edghill’s influences are fairly clear. Edghill started out as a comic writer (so she can safely claim she killed vampires for a living!) and went through several jobs before becoming a full time writer.
She’s a genre gipsy (has written in every genre except westerns) and has been associated with [...]
Start at A in this book and right away you discover that writers have no harsher critics than other writers. Take Truman Capote’s brief but bitter assessment of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.“It’s not writing, it’s just typing.”
Imagine what he would have said if he’d heard the rumor that Kerouac wrote his first draft on [...]
Seek beauty wherever you are - nature will show you the way the human spirit struggles to rise above its circumstances - a flower growing in a crack in the concrete, a clump of moss claiming a a stone step - here in Australia the jacaranda trees are in full bloom.
I spotted this beauty at [...]
Since the success of Harry Potter, film makers have cast their beady eyes over children’s literature, so it is no surprise to learn the Inkheart will be released as a movie in 2006. And for once, I am betting that the movie version will be an improvement.
Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, translated from the original German by [...]
I have just taken part in Artella’s Sprites of Spring art exchange, and once again have been thrilled with the experience of exchanging art across the world. My recipient is in the USA, and posting things cross the ocean isn’t as easy or as fun as it used to be, so I have no idea [...]
It’s sobering to read the latest news on global warming. I subscribe to the National Geographic newsletter and have been avidly following the discovery of a dinosaur that makes the T-Rex look like a pussy cat as well as the `Judas Scrolls’ but it is the articles on global warming that claim most of my [...]
Today I bought a punnet of blackberries for $3 – therewas barely a couple of handfuls, but at the prices growers have been charging recently, they were a bargain.
In terms of memories, they were priceless.
One look at the shining fruit, like clusters of tinyblack pearls, and I was back in England, a child again, setting [...]
Listeners to BBC UK’s radio program Women’s Hour recently chose this book as one of the top 30 titles in a list of women’s watershed fiction. I decided the time was ripe to revisit this book and find out why.
Even at first glance, it’s not hard to understand – The L-Shaped Room broke a lot [...]
As I mentioned before, the writer’s life is one of ups and downs. One of the downs is watching the mailbox for cheques to arrive. Seems to take longer every year. One of the ups is getting a `best of’ anthology from an editor with your story in it.
I recently received my copy of Wondrous [...]
Life as a writer is full of discovery, but life as a reader even more so. I love discovering a writer new to me, but very rarely do I discover a perfect writer, a flawless book. In Anchee Min’s Empress Orchid I have found both.
Writers who read can be a pain in the butt, mentally [...]
