Ever been plagiarised? Ever plagiarised anyone? Ever wanted to use a line or two from our literary heritage and found you couldn’t afford the copy-permission price? The latter just happened to me which is why I have just copied this ancient article (by me!) onto the ol’ blog. Read all »
Everybody seems to know about ‘vanity publishing’ these days. From the acknowledged heights of the literary establishment to the most obscure corners of the Internet, you regularly come across people pouring scorn on those who pay to have their work published. Read all »
This is one tremendous adventure story from Ali Sparkes, author of the famous Shapeshifter series published by OUP. Her regular followers won’t need to be told that ‘Miganium’ is a book to get hold of – they have been eagerly awaiting this title for some time – but in case you haven’t come across Ali’s stories, this is how it goes… Read all »
If you are a born sports person, you were no doubt born knowing the intricacies of all the popular sports but for newcomers like me, it can be a bit confusing. So, after four years of watching The Six Nations rugby with fascination and bafflement, I thought I’d put together a quick guide to the game, as it appears to an outsider: Read all »
How To be a Successful writer in the modern world – an article by Kay Green, first published in The New Writer, autumn 2007, including a discussion with Rob Woods, Hastings Town Centre Manager. Read all »
Look, here she comes now, bustling into the village square like a ship in full sail. A silly old woman you may think, if you’re fooled by the once-glamorous shawl stretched across her bosom and the layers of petticoats festooned around her unguessable form.
It had been like falling into a vat of tar. He’d been distracted by the girls’ bewitching voices, and while he listened, the thick, heavy blackness had swallowed him – slowly, lazily. Read all »
This is the first book published under the imprint Circaidy Gregory Press (and anyone who has read the book will already know where the name ‘Circaidy Gregory’ comes from!
Now and then, I am tempted to write poetry. Sometimes, it goes like this… Read all »
Well, first and foremost, why do we do anything we do? How often do we really know what we do? That mischievous imp (or fairy) that led you to do A instead of B and cause all that trouble last Thursday was probably inspired by Read all »
