Fascinating day yesterday. First – I found a way to resolve problems in my new short story – previously named My Career as a Pianist. This story started life 7 years ago in a rushed and over-written way as a misplaced effort to respond to a call out from Manchester writers Sherry Ashworth and Anjum […]
Since, or rather while putting the finishing touches to Paper in the Cracks, which has now gone out to several agents, (fingers crossed…) I have written, or rather rewritten a short story, which has itself also been sent on its way. I have a couple of free days, not thinking of writing anything at all, […]
After months of work I have completed my novel Paper in the Cracks. I started this more than 2 decades ago, but after about 40,000 words put it to one side. Last year I reviewed it and decided to work on it again and to complete it. I have had positive feedback from a couple […]
A week to reflect in perhaps. A friend`s husband died suddenly, a neighbour tragically died recently. No-one is getting any younger. I am not young. I have worked hard on my novel Paper in the Cracks and am almost ready to submit it. A story I drafted 4 years ago, then cut, edited, over another […]
Long time since I came to my website. I have been working intensively on Paper in the Cracks, my novel set in England of the fifties and sixties, and then Jerusalem in June 1967 – the time of the Six Day War. One chapter was published as a short story, `The Saint on the Wall,` […]
A great start to 2019. I will be running a creative writing group at Osidge Library (N22.) The last Tuesday of every month, for a year. Starting Tuesday January 29th, 6.00 pm – 7.45 pm. The start of a writing group is always full of promise, I find. Who will come? What will have brought […]
I saw The Mousetrap this afternoon. Hats off to the clear and bright performances, and yes, I did smile at the unexpected plot twist, which of course I am not allowed to share…. I feel a slight failure, in that Agatha Christie has never attracted me as a writer as much, say, as Daphne du […]
I have been discussing the setting up of a new writing group, which will run at Osidge Library from January. I am very pleased to be involved in this initiative, and look forward to the start of it, and to getting to know a new group of writers – Barnet writers. Since moving to London […]
A short blog, because I`m still an apprentice on the new website. I saw Stories, by Nina Raine, at The Dorfman. Many beautiful one-liners, lovely to see the topic of fertility and childbirth explored in a woman`s voice, and some great acting. (Though what would you expect, really, at the NT?) It occurred to me […]
`Coming of Age,` the 2018 Anthology of Short Stories, published by Momaya Press, contains my story `From the Dining Room Table.` I feel honoured to be in the company of some excellent writers. The prize-winning stories, by Clare Reddaway and Ellis Logan are so good! Not surprisingly I had ordered a few copies from the […]