Seriously Useful
The title of my new text book will be The Seriously Useful Authors Guide To Marketing: Marketing Publicity and The Book Trade. This will be published by Troubador in February 2009. I am really looking forward to the production as I have had a great deal of positive feedback that its content will be much in demand.
Publishing Alternatives
The recent talk at the Writers in Oxford Xmas Book Fair on Publishing Alternatives was a great success with a full house. In fact the general feeling was that it should be expanded to a full day. Hopefully this will take place in the spring.
The Secret Lives of Eleanor Jenkinson
Although written by Ann Oakley, the author of one of my favourite all time reads, The Men's Room, I didn't find it very page turning or exciting. The interesting thing, for me as an author, was that Eleanor's secrets lives were led through her obsession with novel writing. In fact My Novel had accompanied her through a boring marriage, the appearance of a family, a brush with low life out of her 'class', and several lovers (real or imaginary). It made me wonder whether us writers have a need to create alternative lives in their heads to escape from a humdrum life, or whether we are just mentally hyperactive and creative. Memorable for its thought provocation, but not as a 'thumping good read'. 7/10
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