Strangles by rope

Strangles by rope

It’s a Saturday. Saturdays require dragging ourselves out and about for a little adventure. Today is a visit to nearby Strangles beach. Strangles is not the beach to expect floods of holiday lobsters soaking up the sun. The nearest parking – little more than a country lane  lay-by – is perhaps a rugged half mile [...]


Draw365 – a new playground

Draw365 – a new playground

The idea behind photo365 – taking a photograph, any photograph, every day, for a year – has been around for a few years now. Flickr is full of photo365 feeds. More recently, artists have been tapping into the idea with draw365, something I have been doing for just over a month. Time is everything lately. [...]


An agent in the middle

An agent in the middle

I follow a handful of  literary agents on twitter. One of the more consistently interesting and helpful is Rachelle Gardner, who feeds us eager authors insightful advice to light the path to acquiring and agent and publisher.
On her blog this week is a guest post from Billy Coffey, one of the authors she represents, discussing [...]


The temptation of social networks

The temptation of social networks

What do you do when you come across a list of literary agents and publishers on twitter? That’s right, spam the lot of them!
I now follow a number of literary agents who use twitter, thanks to a recently distributed list. It has turned out to be quite an education. Amongst the personal messages and posts [...]


Twitter straining at every port

Twitter straining at every port

Anyone who is a user of twitter, the microblogging service, will know that in recent weeks it has been providing a less than stable and predictable service. Like many, I use a desktop client application (Twitterific in my case) to send and receive to and from twitter. You can also have the twitter messages (tweets) [...]