Bibliobibuli

Here are some more great Christmas presents for the book lover - this time from The New Yorker *. I loved the bookcase wallpaper (left - al...

Dear sir or madam, My name is Sonya Hartnett, I am fifteen years old. I have written a story about a young adolescent boy and the problems ...

A.L. Kennedy issues a stark warning to wannabe writers ... and knows no-one will heed it : ... I do try to tell other people what it will ...

Editors are not magicians; there’s no sleight of hand involved in the editing process. Nobody sees them working. They work long hours. It...

If there's a lesson to all this, it's that there are as many paths to publication as there are published writers. Everyone who has m...

Shirley also sent me scan of this article written by Wena Poon from the local edition of Marie Claire . Do read it because there are some l...

Anne Lamott is a brave woman. At her next writers' conference, she's going to tell her students to give up and go home. They probab...

I hadn't heard from It's a Long Way to the Floor Author David Byck in quite a while, and the fatwa ruling nudged me into getting i...

When does an (outwardly) perfectly normal, peaceful-looking individual become a parent from hell? Raman muses on the Silverfish website , be...

What advice would science fiction novelist Iain Banks give to new writers ? The Three Ps: practice, practice, practice. Writing is like ever...

What should you do if you want to be published?* Boyd Tonkin, Literary editor of the Independent offers sterling advice . Here's a sni...

A response by Md Jamil Abdullah to the interview with MPH editor Eric Forbes last week in Starmag . The letter misses the point so badly...

How nice it was to see my good buddy and MPH senior editor Eric Forbes in Starmag talking about the often search for local writing talent ....

Ye gods. I had the Pushy Wanna-be from Hell turn up at my house last night to foist her manuscript on me to read. She wouldn't take ...

Conversations with budding authors. (What follows is fiction, thinly disguised as life.) Author 1 (of potentially best-selling thriller) : C...