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Archive for December 2007

Tuesday 25th December 2007

Christmas time…

Merry Christmas
Did Santa bring you all nice presents? 
A friend of mine bought me a book journal, in which to log what I’ve read and what I’d like to read - it’s all soft lilac suede on the outside and so nice to look at and hold (almost too nice to use)!  The perfect gift though…

Tuesday 18th December 2007

Books in bits

DailyLit.com sends you installments of books by email or RSS, and is a great way to read something that you might not have considered before (if a bit slowly, sometimes).
They used to only have free books, as far as I can remember, but they’ve extended their catalogue quite a lot recently to have more recent [...]

Monday 17th December 2007

First novel competition

The Mail on Sunday run an annual competition for first-time novellists.  It’s open to anyone eligible in the UK or Republic of Ireland, and the publishing deal could be worth £30,000.
See here for details. 

Sunday 16th December 2007

Critiques wanted

I’m being bold (brave?) and putting something up for comments.
[hidepost]Basically, it’s a short story that I wrote a number of years ago and have done a quick and dirty revision of recently. I’m not confident in my ability to write short stories although I used to be happy with this one - I’m not looking [...]

Friday 14th December 2007

Book challenge for 2008

(And I nearly put 2007 in the title. D’oh.)
 Anyway, there was a post the other day on the Emerging Writer blog about the following reading challenge:
Pick six books - one from each of the following categories…
A book with a colour in its title.
A book with an animal in its title.
A book with a first name in [...]

Thursday 13th December 2007

Logos revisited

Well, the favourite logo was the one with the swans:

However, to be fair, I didn’t answer Cavantucky’s comment asking for more information about what our logo should be.  So. Erm. I hate taking design decisions (which is why I’m a writer not an artist, dammit).
But here goes anyway…

Thursday 13th December 2007

Book giveaway

Shameless self-promotion here (well, sort of): I’m getting rid of some books and will post anywhere in the UK or RoI. See my Sharp Words blog for a list.

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