Posted in Britain, Fiona Glass, writing on February 25, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The mysterious radgepacket…
I’m in a slightly weird position here. A few weeks ago I had a short story accepted by Byker Books for their latest anthology, which has the utterly unforgettable title of ‘Radgepacket – Tales From the Inner Cities Volume 2′. Of course, I was delighted – but I was also slightly baffled. And [...]
Posted in Erastes, life, writing on February 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
‘PLR’s aim is to provide an excellent service to all our stakeholders making annual payments to writers and other creators whose works are freely available in libraries. We will achieve this by maintaining a highly skilled team and making efficient use of all our resources.’
Basically, if your books (or [...]
Posted in Britain, Marc Nobbs on February 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Okay, you need to go and read this article from Friday’s The Sun newspaper in the the UK then come back here and read what I have to say.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece
Right, read it? And you came back. Good. I’m going to try and not over react to this but I’ll say from the outset that it will [...]
Posted in Nicole Gestalt, tagged ebook, Erotica, f/f, free, packing, Phaze, Phaze Books, Vision in Green on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today on the day of lovers my free ebook Vision in Green is finally out.
It’s a short f/f story about two woman who meet in a night club. The main character Samantha is also packing, a topic I wanted to write about for a while.
Here is the cover and a short excerpt:
Excerpt:
Samantha wound her way [...]
Posted in Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain, tagged Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is Valentines day a time for all lovers to get romantic and exchange gifts, cards you name it.
However in Wales there is a similar celebration but a month early. St Dwynwen’s Day (Dybb Santes Dwynwen) is on the 25th of January.
She is the welsh the patron saint of lovers and her tale as most [...]
Posted in Alex Draven, language, writing on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I must recommend the Guardian’s style guide – - it’s such a excellent combination of useful information, useless information, British-ness, self depreciation, and more wit than one would normally expect from an internal office document, even one intended for writers.
Posted in Britain, Fiona Glass, language, life on February 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Birmingham City Council has been getting a lot of stick lately for its decision not to use apostrophes on street signs.
As a writer part of me does worry about this. It’s yet another erosion of the traditions of our language and grammar, and yet another blow to the trusty old apostrophe, the use of which [...]
