I’m very much looking forward to being involved in two events in Liverpool next week. Moby Dick on the Mersey, May 4th-6th, 2013: Liverpool’s first ever Moby Dick marathon reading takes place at the Merseyside Maritime Museum over the three days of May 4th-6th 2013, and will involve up to 135 readers, each tackling a chapter of […]
It’s that time of year again. The Wirral heat of Pulp Idol, that unique writing competition for unpublished novelists, will take place next Monday (29 April) from 6-8 p.m. at Hope Place, 259 Woodchurch Road, Prenton CH42 9LE. Entrants to the competition will have been allocated a heat to attend. At the heat each writer […]
Six weeks ago, I applied to Arts Council England and the National Lottery for ‘Time to Write’ funding. For those who don’t know, Arts Council England supports arts and culture using money from the government and the National Lottery. I put in an application to grants for the arts, based on a synopsis for my […]
It’s Wednesday evening, it’s the night before the official publication date, it’s already been quite a week. Last night was the Liverpool launch of The ‘Drowning of Arthur Braxton’. Littlest made me smile when she talked about the evening, amazed that everywhere she looked there were smiling people. I like that that’s how she’ll remember […]
It’s Publication Week! I might have to pinch myself that it’s here already, I might be a bit tearful as I realise that I’m a published author again. And today marks the start of a busy week. I’ve got the Liverpool launch on Tuesday evening, then I’ll travel down to London on Thursday morning. I’ll […]
One week until the publication of ‘The Drowning of Arthur Braxton’ and the anxiety dreams are coming in full force. Perhaps it’s wrong to say that they offer me comfort, but they do. I quite like waking in a panic, believing that only three people will be at my launch, thinking that there’s a page […]
I’m thrilled that the University of Liverpool Continuing Education are hosting the Liverpool launch of ‘The Drowning of Arthur Braxton’, with books being sold by Forget-me-not Toys and Books. For me the evening will be about tea, cake, readings and chat. I’ll be joined by director/producer David Richardson, talking about his role in the novel’s […]
Deliciously naughty, funny and all kinds of wonderful, The Rocky Horror Show is in Liverpool! Like The Rocky Horror Show, I’m 40 this year which (in my head) makes us connected. Perhaps that’s why I’m such a fan? Or perhaps it’s the fact that I can remember going to my first ever performance, aged 16, […]