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| Interview with Helen Garnons-Williams - Part two of three |
| 2010-09-22 00:49:00 |
Interview with Helen Garnons-Williams(Part two of three) by JenInterview part one can be found here.*** Do you prefer to work with an agented author as opposed to one without, and why? It’s not a question of preference. I’ve worked with both and when it comes to the editing and the nitty gritty of getting the final book right, that’s pretty much always done one-to-one with the author anyway (with an agent only stepping in if any issues need resolving). But when it comes to submissions, because I receive so many manuscripts a week I will give preference to those that come from agents because I can be confident that at least one level of filtering has already taken place – and I also know that the agent will have sent it to other publishers and will probably be setting a d...
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| Priya Basil Interview |
| 2010-09-15 21:37:00 |
Interview withPriya Basilby Kerrie AnnePriya's writing career began early inventing medical conditions, forging her parents’ signatures and developing excuses all aimed at avoiding sports lessons. Like so many authors she studied English Literature and following her graduation from the University of Bristol she worked for 3 years in advertising, a career which she found soul sapping and unrewarding. Her partner then offered her the chance to move to Berlin in order to spend more time with him and work on her long dreamt first book. Two years later the resulting book, Ishq and Mushq, explored many events close to her own life and came second in the World Book Day 'Book to Talk About 2008' competition. It was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, long-listed for the Dy...
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| My Color, Your Color: On Editing and Writing Fiction |
| 2010-09-14 00:20:00 |
by Lisa Marie Basile Selecting SubmissionsMy experience in literary journal editing is always changing. I am always learning something new, and I am in love with the ever-changing nature of the literary world. What I’ve learned is a work in progress.My love for literary editing started when I was an editor for my high school’s literary journal, Folio. I was also associate editor for Pace University’s annual literary magazine, Aphros. From the beginning, I saw a myriad of flaws in the literary editing process. In high school, the students employed the anonymous reading method. All the while, the students knew whose work belonged to whom and the collection seemed to be largely dictated by popularity. In college, the editors -- though superbly intelligent, passionate and dedicate...
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| One Bad Day |
| 2010-09-09 17:09:00 |
by William Hart On what would become the second worst day of his forty-eight years, he drove in to the shop an hour late, hung over and irritated. He’d planned to get an early start, but family business intervened again—this time in the form of a Sunday dinner party for his future in-laws. It was his first meeting with David’s parents. Though impressed by their height, he found them slow-witted and numbingly dull. To get through the evening, he’d leaned a little too heavily on the wine. As he pulled into the parking lot he was pleased to see all the company pickups gone. Apparently his little lecture on hustle delivered to the boys on Friday had gotten through. His daughter’s new 1965 Impala was parked at an angle across two spaces, somet...
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| Dave Mckean Interview |
| 2010-09-06 04:23:00 |
Interview with Dave Mckeanby Mike French Dave McKean was born in Taplow, Berkshire in 1963. He attended Berkshire College of Art and Design from 1982-86 and, before leaving, started working as an illustrator. In 1986 he met author Neil Gaiman and since then have collaborated on many projects including Black Orchid (1988), Signal To Noise (1990) and Mr. Punch (1975). Dave also contributed all the cover illustrations and design for Neil Gaiman's popular Sandman series of graphic novels. Arkham Asylum (1989) written by Scottish author/playwright Grant Morrison, the most successful graphic novel ever published, was also illustrated by Dave. Between 1990 and 1996, Dave also wrote and illustrated the comic novel Cages, which won the Harvey Award for Best New Series in 1992, the ...
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| The Library of Bedlam |
| 2010-09-03 08:02:00 |
by Anjali JosephI don’t like working in libraries, and so I leave it as a last resort. Perhaps that’s why I don’t like working in libraries. For one thing it involves concentration in a quantity that I find slightly painful. For another, there’s the febrile atmosphere. It’s very plain, in any given reading room or library, that there are two sorts of people: those who are gossiping with their friends/canoodling with their partners, and those who are doing Much More Work Than You. The latter are virtually grunting with effort, as they fill pages of notes, motor through journal articles, or frown over large tomes. They seem to be a bigger, slightly more grown-up version of the people who always sprang up like unsavoury fungi around me in exam halls at university. Like the first pa...
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| Ruth O’Callaghan Interview |
| 2010-08-24 03:08:00 |
Ruth O’Callaghan by Shanta Ruth O’Callaghan, is a Hawthornden Fellow, competition adjudicator, interviewer and reviewer. A winner in International Poetry competitions, her work is published in many anthologies and magazines and has been translated into Italian, Romanian and German. Her latest collection is Goater’s Alley (Shoestring Press 2010).Ruth organises the Camden and Lumen Poetry, an innovative project with all proceeds going to help the Cold Weather Shelters in Camden and Kings Cross, London, UK. Regular poetry readings are held in the Camden and Lumen (Kings Cross) venues, with well-known authors appearing alongside new and unpublished poets.Publishers and magazine editors present their writers, published poets make appearances, and the events include the opportunity for aud...
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| Dare to Inspire |
| 2010-08-12 10:14:00 |
by Sam WildingMy kids said that I would be pelted with rotten fruit, minimum, if I tried to perform an author / pupil session at their school. ‘Authors are just losers’, explained my delightful teenage daughter, a look of bewilderment on her face. This family pep talk suggested that simple survival was the order of the day, certainly nothing as high and mighty as inspiring children to write. With the release of my first children’s novel, the ominous advice from my publisher was to visit schools as soon as I could. What was I to do?My first step was to link up with the Scottish Book Trust who matched me with a brilliant mentor-author. My daughter’s words of warning still rattling round in my head, I asked my mentor for a few tips. She advised me to incorporate a short reading from m...
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| Living Souls Review |
| 2010-08-05 08:02:00 |
Living Souls Author: Dmitry BykovPublisher: Alma Books Review: Vicky Living Souls is a novel which delves deeply into the psyche of a futuristic Russian nation. It portrays a country in turmoil through war based on historical, political and religious differences and effectively conveys how nonsensical this war becomes. Within the dark, depressing and hopeless backdrop of a meaningless war, Bykov tells the personal stories of four unlikely couples who manage to see beyond their differences and struggle to keep their love and relationships alive. It is a novel where humanity can be seen at its most dangerous and absurd but also at its most loving and tolerant. It juxtaposes deep rooted cultural and spiritual conflicts with the ability and need for sensitivity and acceptance. It ...
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