I'm delighted that a friend of mine, theficklepickle, is launching a 'semi-pro' e-publishing venture called Manifold Press. You can find them on LJ at manifold_press, and they hope to launch a website soon. They are focussing on male-male fiction. Hurrah! XD

This is wondrous news for theficklepickle, of course, but I am even more delighted for my own sake - as we are currently talking about ( Read more... )

Good news on the novel front at last! Hurrah!

OK, so I sent out submissions to nine agents in mid July - received a few rejections, and quite reasonably assumed that if any of the others were interested I would have heard from them by now.

Well... one of them just sent me an email asking to see the rest of the novel. Hurrah! And it's one of the ( Read more... )

Oh dear! It was such a Merlin weekend that I completely failed to do a Keats post on his birthday, 31 October. He was a decent person and had a gift for friendship, though, so I am counting on the notion that he'd forgive me. And I did think about him on The Day, and talk about him, look at one of his portraits...

And I have Jane Campion's film ( Read more... )

It's the end of another month, which is as good a time as any to do an update on my novel... which is now out there in the world... gasp. I sent it out to nine agents a couple of weeks ago, and have so far been rejected by one. Just with a form letter, so nothing to learn there except patience and fortitude. Still, this gets me one rejection closer ( Read more... )

'Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead ( Read more... )

There is still much to do, but this felt too momentous a thing to leave for my end-of-month review...

I have just written the last scene of my first draft of the Keats novel. Hurrah! *faints* *thud* *scrambles back up again*

After a few days' good run of writing, I am done. For now at least. It's all too short, I fear, currently clocking in at 51,800 ( Read more... )

Hurrah! After an extended crisis of confidence, much slash-writing, day-dreaming about Colin Morgan, travelling, and other distractions - I have finally started writing my Keats novel again. Only 267 words today, but hey the last time I wrote anything here was in early March.

Alas, Keats House in Hampstead is still closed for renovations, so I haven ( Read more... )

A short month. That's my excuse. There was only 28 days in it. How much novelising can one do in 28 days...?

Well, OK, there were pressing Real Life matters which meant I didn't progress so much this month. Plus, because I had written the Big Turning Point, I had a brief crisis about What Happens Next. Plus, you know... much Merlin slash.

Current ( Read more... )

It's 188 years today, alas, since Keats breathed his last. In honour of which I have managed 811 words on the novel. It is my firm intention to progress that this week! (Though I'm sure Junkets wouldn't mind too much if I also managed a bit of Merlinising in the afternoons...) So I hope to have Good Things to report on the 28th as I look back at ( Read more... )

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