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This week I’ve just begun a reading project aiming at helping teenagers struggling with low literacy. I came across the Choose a Path book [...]
November 8, 2013
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Some interesting news for book lovers recently – as of 2014 an author of any nationality will be able to enter the Man Booker prize. [...]
September 19, 2013
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This week among other things, I’ve been reading Issue 4 of Mistress Quickly’s Bed. There’s an overarching theme of religion [...]
August 21, 2013
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When I worked in Japan years ago as an English teacher, I happened to get into Japanese manga by accident. I was renewing my work visa for [...]
August 10, 2013
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What to do when you’re book shopping: 1. If it is a thick book, rap on the front cover to hear that lovely deep ‘thunk’. 2. [...]
July 29, 2013
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Here are the facts about traditional publishing as I see them: in a world of tough economic times, big publishing houses are sticking to the safe [...]
July 22, 2013
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Joseph Robert’s latest poem, Worry Play, is out in The Commonline Journal this week. When I first read this one of my writer hubby’s poems, [...]
May 14, 2013
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A new month, a new flash fiction piece out in Mad Swirl. The Beach out of Reach is another of my literary oddities. A reader got in contact with [...]
May 8, 2013
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This week, Joseph Robert had a couple of contributor copies arrive in the post – one poem in The Journal and a spread of three in Mistress [...]
April 26, 2013
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My latest flash fiction piece, Safeguarding Quiz, is out in The Neglected Ratio this month. In my post on March 21, I mentioned that my fiction [...]
April 19, 2013