Well, things are moving ahead. It now appears that we have a tentative date scheduled for the publication of A GOOD AMERICAN – January or February of 2012. It seems an awfully long way off right now but I know that there’s a lot to do in the forthcoming months and I will be kept extremely busy. I am told …
“Now the Fun Bit”
So, yesterday was a big day for me. I have lost count over the past couple of years how many times I have written on this blog that the book is “finished”. There have been so many drafts and rewrites that it makes my head spin. The difference then, of course, was that I was the only one who had …
Big Book News
More book news today… and for once, it’s actually about my book! While we were in Miami airport waiting for our flight to England – only four days later than planned, due to snow – I got an email from my editor and publisher, Amy Einhorn, with her comments on the rewrite to the book that I had been working …
THE WEIRD SISTERS is published today!
Regular visitors to this blog will be aware of my admiration for my friend and fellow Amy Einhorn Books author, Eleanor Brown. My twitter feed has lately been busy telling the world about the various amazing reviews (New York Times, anyone?) that this excellent debut novel has already garnered. ( I also posted about her classy book trailer here.) It …
“The Weird Sisters” by Eleanor Brown
January 20, 2011 marks the publication of a great debut novel called THE WEIRD SISTERS, by author Eleanor Brown. Full disclosure here: Eleanor is an Amy Einhorn author, and although we haven’t met (yet) we have been carrying on a rather wonderful email correspondence over these past several months. She is a wonderful and very funny person (if you don’t …
So You Want to Write a Novel
This is so perfect, there’s not much more to be said. Had me giggling, anyway.
Interview on “We Do Write”
I was recently contacted by Dorothy Dreyer, who runs the always interesting blog, We Do Write, which has great features about books generally and the publishing process in particular, and lots of interviews with writers. Dorothy wanted to ask me a few questions for the blog, and of course I was delighted to answer them. You can read the whole …
Polish, Schmolish
After a busy weekend, I’m just over half-way through my final polish of the manuscript before sending it back to my editor and publisher. Things have been going smoothly enough, but occasionally I get a page like this one: That’s not a polish, that’s industrial cleaning.
Reaching the End
As I approach the end of this epic rewrite, I am faced with mixed emotions. I will be relieved when the work is done, and I can turn my attention to other stories which have been waiting patiently for me. But with that comes the knowledge that this particular effort is almost finished, and with that knowledge comes a degree of …
My Wife’s Affair
This isn’t a book review, not really. I just want to tell you about a novel I enjoyed a lot. Besides, I think you’re supposed to be icily impartial when it comes to reviews, and I’m not, not this time. The author, Nancy Woodruff, is a friend of mine. We were in a writers’ group together in London, and I actually …