Wow, it's been a while since I last posted. That's what three weeks of hellish illness and then putting life back together again does to LJ posts ( Read more... )

This is an excerpt from a publishing blog I dip into.

"My agent shopped a post-Apocalyptic novel to sci-fi publishers last spring and it didn't sell. We got some very nice letters back about how it was very wild, interesting, etc, but they weren't sure "how it would do in the market." In other words, "We can't predict whether it will sell and ( Read more... )

If ever there is one... got this today which seems all the more poignant, given my new plan.

"Thank you for sending me the sample chapters of your novel, which I enjoyed reading.  I’m not able to take it further however as I’m already representing a YA dystopian novel.  I wish you luck with it however - and wouldn’t be surprised if it had already ( Read more... )

My immune system seems to be shot ( Read more... )

.. and it's up there with the other big life-changing ones I've made previously ( Read more... )

After two weeks of no LJ (for various reasons, none of which are pleasant) I have indulged in a little bit of catching up on my friend's posts and had the most marvellous epiphany:

I have some extraordinarily fantastic friends!

Honestly, at the risk of sounding slushy, gushing, and any other nasty things with 'ush' in them, you are all just so damn ( Read more... )

... in the middle of a side street in Oxford.

What would you do?

Today is a big milestone for my professional life: I went to a meeting on site at a client's office all by myself -  no boss to hide behind ( Read more... )

I have no idea where the last year went, but the last three days disappeared in being ill under a duvet. Hooray for duvets. Next week is my one year anniversary of starting work for Momentum. A lot has happened this year, most of which I'm not up to writing about atm ( Read more... )

That, my friends, is the sound of me throwing my toys out of the pram ( Read more... )