“Effective use of details, more than any other single factor, distinguishes publishable manuscripts from those that have a good story line but somehow ‘aren’t quite right for us.’ ” Nancy Kress, Beginnings, Middles and Ends My head is full of book at the moment. These ones. I will explain the reasons and causes later in the…
(For the family, there are more pictures here) I hope you had a lovely Easter.
This long weekend I shall try to read as many of these books as possible so they may be returned to the library – beginning with Escape from Blood Castle, which makes little sense in some of the riddle pages, but is an old childhood favourite of mine.
The Spohr family lost their little girl this week. Today is Good Friday. I don’t know what category I fall into anymore, whether I’m religious or non-religious, but from my childhood I still remember that although Easter is about sacrifice and doing what’s best for the greater good and humanity, it is also the day when a…
Oh. My. God. I’ve stopped unpacking the groceries to write this post. I can see them on the kitchen floor and the kids are ferreting through the bags like beggars, each looking for the bright new shiny food. If an outsider were to witness their squabbling, their pushing each other out of the way to…
Empirically speaking, the very basics one needs to know about creating a perfect bound book is that the minimum number of pages required is 24 and that anything longer needs to be dividable by 4. For example, if your novella is 157 pages long then you will need to add some end pages, perhaps an index,…
I regularly have ABC2 on of a weekend afternoon. There they replay shows I usually miss during the week or recycle shows and music from the vaults of yore. Such was the case last Saturday afternoon when they were playing classic 80s music videos. I was pleased to hear the introductory banjo strumming of “The Rainbow…
It’s all toilet talk in our household at the moment. I’m going to blame preschool here, but not in a damning, brimstone kind-of way; more of a brace yourself for we are entering older childhood! reality. It was inevitable. If not at school, then via the park, or The Simpsons, or even just putting an ear to…
