Posts added in March 2006
moblogging emile zola
Hi emile, i’m sitting in a small courtyard in =
central York with a black coffee and a mobile phone. No computer. The =
coffee is hot [...]
Here it comes again. . .
That feeling. It’s when a particularly long piece, like a novel, is finally in the bag. You know you’ve finished it. It’s over. It was your life for the last so many months, maybe years. And now it’s gone. It’s out in the world on its own little feet.
While you were involved with it lots [...]
Winged with Death
A boy has to peddle his book, said Truman Capote. And with that in mind I’ve published the opening chapter of my latest novel, Winged with Death, on this blog. It’s rather lengthy, but you don’t have to read it all.
It will be published by Flambard Press in March 2009.
I believe it was Capote who [...]
Dress to Kill
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I did an original sin. I poked a badger with a spoon.”
“Say five Hail Marys and six Hello Dollys.”
Eddie Izzard
Lund Gallery – an exhibition
Today we were at a new gallery to see the work of Ruth King, Peter Baker and Alex Cooper. We were easily tempted to buy one of Ruth King’s pots -
- and intrigued by the work of York based, Peter Baker (no relation), who uses marble dust and plaster to coat the faces of individual [...]
