I’ve blogged before about some of the essential tools of the trade. And this is another vital book for any writer, editor or anybody else who regularly works with words.
Tag Archives: books
For the love of books
Authors have a great skill in crafting worlds that we, as readers, slip into so easily. We invest in the characters: feel their emotions, want the best for them.
So why then, did I become an editor and not a writer?
Book review: Shadow is a Colour
Cézanne, the artist, holds together the strands of multiple narratives in this ambitious debut novel.
Book review: Leah on the Offbeat
Leah is determined that her graduation isn’t going to become a “teen movie cliché” which is exactly what Becky Albertalli has written.
Lockdown Blog Day 63
It has been announced that shops are to begin to reopen. Here’s my post-lockdown shopping list.
Lockdown Blog Day 56
You’d think – for someone who works with books and stories all the time – that reading for pleasure would be an easy thing.
But, somehow, in lockdown, that just doesn’t seem to be happening. I don’t know if it’s the pressure of trying to find new clients (I have to pay the bills!) or the constant updating from government and rolling news bulletins, but I’ve been finding really difficult to switch off.
Lockdown Blog Day 31
Tonight is World Book Night. And to coincide with this event, it was revealed that many more people are turning to books to see them through the lockdown.
Lockdown Blog Day 28
I am not a fan of the current fad in news broadcasting: the Skype (or similar) connection to talking heads. The connections invariably fail, stutter and the mouth and the voice become, strangely, separated.
