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Apr.10.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
I'm still floating, still grinning to myself, scaring the cats, still wondering what on earth this all means, how to integrate it into my life. I have asked some trusted advisers for their advice, regarding an agent for example. This makes me more attractive, right...
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Apr.07.2009
I was feeling great this morning, woke up chirpy, checked email, switched on the fiction-only laptop (yeah, yeah) and was about to get some work done before 10am, which is rare for me. Then I got a Google alert for my name (everyone does those, right?). I click on the link. And it's this......
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Apr.06.2009
Cross-posted with TaniaWrites )
How great is it when a friend gives you a copy of a book they love and want you to read? This morning I was delighted to receive Welding with Children by Tim Gautreaux, sent by my friend Lisa in the US. I had sent her a signed copy of The White Road...
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Apr.04.2009
From the Guardian:
JD Salinger still isn't talking. The famously reclusive author wasn't persuaded to break his silence by a reporter from the Spectator, who made it as far as Salinger's doorstep in Cornish, New Hampshire before being turned away.
The journalist, Tom Leonard, said he heard the...
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Apr.02.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
I love physics. You say "physics" to me and I get a thrill. It's not that I want to do physics - I tried that, it didn't work. But I think the endeavour of physicists is magical, they are asking the biggest "What if...?" questions in the universe...
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Apr.01.2009
One of the things that helps me when I am feeling anxious*, as I seem to be a lot these days, is reading. Reading fiction, or non-fiction, immersing myself in someone else's world. And the effect lasts after I stop reading, it is most definitely a calmative, so I thought I would bring you a couple...
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Mar.30.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
It's not been a great few months, in fact this year started pretty badly, with illness and anxiety etc..., and has only got slightly better since now I have a space to write and the energy to actually do it, some of the time. I
was quite upset last week to...
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Mar.27.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
I find as I grow into this writing life, things shift and change, and the latest shift is towards something I have been thinking about for a while: only submitting my stories to literary journals that pay.
Before I carry on, I want to stress that I certainly don't...
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Mar.26.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
Those of you who read this blog know that what makes up most of my reading these days are short stories, both for pleasure and for review for The Short Review. I write short stories and I love them, but, as I argue whenever I get the chance, I also love a good...
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Mar.23.2009
(cross posted with TaniaWrites)
There I was today, in my (cold but lovely) new working space, writing an article on book promotion to be published soon on the excellent How publishing really works blog and saying that I basically played it by ear, had no clue what to do, just blogged and used...
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Mar.22.2009
Yay, I finally have a place to write in, a room with a door I can (almost) shut! Yup, I'm in our cellar. (The shed idea didn't pan out, many boring reasons why not. Mainly because Israel ain't really a shed culture.) Here is the illustrious entrance to my domain:
Bend your head a little, it's...
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Mar.20.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites.)
To celebrate Small Press month, the March issue of The Short Review is entirely mainstream-publisher-free. We review nine single author collections and one anthology - and a bumper NINE author interviews to go alongside them. Check it out now.... and for the...
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Mar.18.2009
I am delighted to be hosting the final leg of Elizabeth Baines' "Around the Edges of the World" Virtual Book Tour for her wonderful short story collection, Balancing on the Edge of the World (Salt Publishing, 2007) which is one of those books I had to force myself to put down just so...
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Mar.08.2009
I never thought it would come to this, but I actually wandered the streets with my laptop searching for WiFi to steal! As you might surmise, I found it, and am now sitting on the Poperinge pavement, my back against the glass front of the pharmacy on the town square (closed on Sundays), listening to...
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Mar.04.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
Yes, Ghent is fabulous and not because it seems to have a chocolate-shop-to-person ratio of 1:1, but because it has a coffee shop with Free WiFi! Yay, back to my own keyboard, back to Google and Facebook not in Flemish (that was tough). I came here for the day,...
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About Tania
A former science journalist, I am now a full-time fiction writer. Born in London, England, I lived in Jerusalem, Israel, from 1994 - 2009 and now live in Bristol, UK. My second collection, My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions , is published by Tangeng...
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