Hello, Dear Readers, and happy Thursday (Friday's almost here!). Today's first order of business is to direct you to my book birthday interview with picturebook author and illustrator Cara Vulliamy on Author Allsorts. Her new book, Bubble & Squeak, is out today. If you're interested in illustration and picturebooks I think you'll find it very interesting.
Next, I need to talk about InCreWriMa. Last year the whole month of May was International Creative Writing May on this blog, and I loved it. I think we all got a lot of work done - well, I know I did, about 30k in that month alone, which is amazing for me - and supported each other really well. I was fully intending to run that again this year, but then last week Wonder Editor emailed me to say that she hoped to get the second round of The Name of the Blade Bk #2 edits to me either this or next week. Which means instead of InCreWriMa it's going to be ZoRiHeHaOuMa (Zolah Ripping Her Hair Out May) and I'm unlikely to get any new work done at all. Sorry! If I manage to get the edits done before the end of the month it's possible we could have an International Creative Writing June. If not, it'll be InCreWriJul. That's if anyone is interested, of course? Let me know in comments.
In other news, can I just say how astonished I am at the level of interest in The Night Itself on Goodreads? It has more adds now and is on more To-Read lists than some of my *published* books. This is astonishing and very pleasing indeed, and is of course muchly down to you, my dears, and your buzzing. I love you all. Thank you.
Now, I was going to write a really long thinky post today about online piracy and the idea that writers owe their readers free stuff - in fact, I have several thousand words of it right here - but yesterday was a day of great personal drama and this morning my brain is mashmallow. I can't seem to tease out the ideas that I really wanted to explore, at least not in a way that's going to make sense for anyone else. So instead of subjecting you to a subpar post (or myself to anymore grinding of teeth) I'm going to take the pooch for a very long walk and hope that sun and clouds and water will make everything feel a bit clearer.
See you next week, duckies. Have a great weekend :)
8 comments:
Good luck with the edits! And I'd still love to do a creative writing month anytime :)
Thanks, Amy - I'll need it!
Lol, I was just thinking I wouldn't be able to do it in May because of deadlines and stuff, so June or July would be great! Good luck this/next week! :)
Rachel: Oh, that works out well then! Thanks for letting me know.
InCreWriMa...is that like NaNo?
Ack, and of COURSE this book is highly coveted!!! It sounds so amazing. It's going to be big, my darling. BIG!
Bonnie: A much less high-pressure version. Here's a link: http://thezoe-trope.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/InCreWriMa
And I do hope you're right :) The bigger the better.
Good luck with the edits :)
July would be *perfect* for InCreWriMa!
Thanks, Rebecca :) I'm looking forward to working on them, but a bit tense, too!
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