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…
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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…
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.
