Sleepless
It’s past four in the morning and I can’t sleep. Haven’t slept all night. I tried reading for a while, but that didn’t work – I couldn’t focus for more than a few seconds at a time. All that I…
New Opportunity to Get Started in Fiction Translation
I’ve always wondered how you get started in fiction translation. I mean, translating a novel seems like such a huge endeavour, and how do you get commissioned to do that? I guess you could translate short stories or something, but…
Something you didn’t know about me
I have been tagged by the wonderful Emma in the 7×7 Link Award. The rules are quite fun: 1: Tell everyone something about yourself that nobody knows. 2: Link to a post I think fits the following categories: The Most…
How interesting projects come about
As a writer, you spend hours scouring the listings in The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, signing up for newsletters to hear of the latest story contests and magazine markets, sending off your official submission packages to anonymous editors, getting…
Congratulations, Ruth Dugdall!
Last year I won the Luke Bitmead Writer’s Bursary, an event that changed my life and led to the publication of On the Holloway Road. This year it is the turn of Ruth Dugdall with her novel The Woman Before…