I’ve been making good progress on the writing front – I think I’m finally at the penultimate draft of the memoir before I start sending it out to agents. That means writing a query letter so I’m both keen to get it finished and not in any rush at all… Also I am about ten …
At least, since 14th February 1979… Ryan, my then boyfriend, had failed his Uni exams the year before, purely co-incidentally three weeks before the end of summer term, at around the time we got together. He’d gone back home and found a series of jobs while waiting for permission to retake the year, and somehow …
As I am dilly-dallying about starting work on my third novel, I am casting around for inspiration, waiting for a couple of ideas to collide in a way that sparks my interest – enough to keep me going for at least a year. Looking back, I can see more clearly what the first two novels …
I do apologise. I don’t think I’ll ever manage a more clickbaity blog title. As I’m still not well enough to attend any of the book launch events, I had to do something to have a little fun. So I’ve been doing some baking. Gluten- free, of course. First, the naked cookies. I do confess …
I confess, I am really excited about this. I am very proud of my story, Too Much Tea, which is published today in this beautiful paperback. I’ve only been writing memoir for around a year – I’ve previously concentrated on fiction. I’ve had to do a lot of thinking – not only about the differences …
One of the textiles pieces I’m most proud of is this quilt, which I made for the wedding of two of my loveliest friends. I’ve made quilts before – by which I mean, I’ve chosen fabrics and cut them and pieced them into a quilt top, and then I’ve sent the top of the quilt …
I am so fortunate to be able to say that I read an early draft of Carmilla Voiez’s novel Starblood way back in the dim and distant past – 2010, I think – when somehow I ended up as a (virtual) member of a writing group based in Aberdeen… I’m currently in the middle of …
I have avoided detailed spoilers but I do give some indications of the overall storyline – so please don’t read this if you don’t want to know anything at all about how that develops. I finished reading the latest Margaret Atwood yesterday – the long awaited follow up to The Handmaid’s Tale, which I first …
I’ve been meaning to add some of my best textile arts projects here for ages. Kate Savage, the narrator and hero of A Savage Art, is a textile artist and I loved imagining her various art works – although I lack the skill to carry them out. However, I am an enthusaiastic amateur and I …
Of course, once I started embroidering again and I saw this project, I couldn’t resist.
I’m not well enough to attend any protests, so I was thrilled to discover there was something I can do!
I’m sorry about the whole clown thing. I have been more than a little coulrophobic since an unpleasant incident in Blackpool Tower Circus back when I was a toddler.
But it’s the image which sprung to mind, and oh, I did enjoy every stab with that sharp needle.
If you are tempted to join in, all the details are available on Holly Searle’s blog, here
Ann