A day of meetings - I clearly keep kidding myself that I'm in charge of the programme, telling the kids to shut up whilst others speak - and proof reading. I was rather proud of my "PROF READING - PLEASE DO NOT DISROBE" sign on my office door ( Read more... )

It hasn't been a good week or so for fiction since the start of term. Alongside the nonsense of random room bookings I've had to go back and do an unexpected edit on what I thought was basically going to be an updated reprint, which took longer than planned. There has been unplanned Photoshopping. And I'm going to be in a validation event for a ( Read more... )

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Strange bedfollows, but that's my CV.

It's a real shame that Making Money came too late to be included in the Greenwood Press
book I've been
editing. I've just read this Guardian review which seems timely:

Boris Johnson's candidacy for mayor of London could have come straight from a Terry Pratchett novel: a lovable buffoon with no discernible ( Read more... )