The early stages of a manuscript are a time of malleable muse, when an author’s extracurricular reading—if there is such a thing—takes on additional weight. With this in mind, Australian author Charlotte Wood trawled through William Butler Yeats as she began writing her Booker-shortlisted Stone... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-14 10:58:31 UTC ]
When I began writing my unborn son a letter in 2018, a book was the furthest thing from my mind. I wasn’t trying to unpack the countless ways in which the words “all men are created equal” have failed us in this country. Instead, I was thinking that I would write a letter, something that […] The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-03-05 12:00:00 UTC ]
The influencer and Slay in Your Lane co-author talks about her journey via Twitter to become a writer, and channelling her experience of social media into debut novel The List“Honestly, I’m a better painter than I am a writer,” says Yomi Adegoke, cackling, as she takes a sip of prosecco.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-01 08:00:07 UTC ]
Andrea Camilleri was determined that his crime series could not be continued by another writer, leaving concluding novel with his publisher long before his death in 2019The final novel in Andrea Camilleri’s beloved Inspector Montalbano mystery series is was published on Thursday – but the late... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-10-14 10:03:48 UTC ]
I have to start by admitting that when I began writing this letter last week, I was boiling mad and ready to take everyone on. Now, in its tenth or twentieth draft (I don’t know which) I’m still boiling mad, but most of your gaslighting social media posts that sent me over the edge have gone, so... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-10 12:34:21 UTC ]
V. S. Naipaul, the award-winning writer born in Trinidad who settled in England and wrote an astonishing number of great novels and searing works of nonfiction, died over the weekend at the age of 85. After publishing a novel, The Mystic Masseur, and a number of short stories about Trinidad in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist who began writing to relieve the stress of her psychiatry job says literary success will not stop her listening to ‘real voices’ in hospitalA bestselling debut novelist who wrote her book in a hospital car park as stress release from her job as a psychiatrist is to return to the NHS.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The beginnings of Ellora’s Cave, the Akron, Ohio–based publisher of erotic romance fiction, have become something of a publishing business legend. Tina M. Engler, a single mom at the time, began writing the kind of romance novels she wanted to read—novels written with explicit descriptions of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]