Posted in Alex Beecroft, Britain, clinic on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Friday Brit clinic is back. If you have any questions about life in this chilly, overcast island, feel free to ask them in the comments. We will do our best to answer.
Appropriate picture of the day – Prime Minister’s Question time in the House of Commons
Posted in Alex Beecroft, Britain, life, writing on August 26, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The English Imagination
This is by way of a musing on Peter Ackroyd’s book Albion: The Origins of the English imagination.
In which Peter Ackroyd attempts to discover whether there is a national character when it comes to the imagination of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and if so, what it is.
I’m not sure why he [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, life on July 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been reading a book called ‘Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination’, by Peter Ackroyd, in which he examines popular thought and literature in Britain since the Saxons in order to identify common threads. That’s a book which deserves a post of its own, but more on that later. For now, I thought it [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, Britain, life on June 17, 2008 | 14 Comments »
For the first time in what seems like several centuries, Andrew and I went out in the evening on Saturday, leaving the kids at home with a babysitter. We went to Ely Cathedral, where the Mediaeval Baebes were doing a concert.
The Mediaeval Baebes are sort of the Spice Girls of early medieval music. [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, introductions, life, writers, writing on June 10, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I’m a relatively new writer who seems determined not to settle down to a ‘brand’. My first book came out on the first of January this year (2008). ‘Captain’s Surrender’ is a gay historical romance. Set in 1779, just before the end of the War of Independence, it’s a sea-faring adventure in the tradition [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, writers, writing on May 28, 2008 | 34 Comments »
Your ITIN and you
Boggle as the intrepid author fights her way through the swamps of legalese! Gasp as she overcomes the clinging forests of red tape! Tremble as she asks the men with machine guns to stand aside and let her pass!
Well, OK, it probably isn’t possible to make a post about UK and [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, clinic, writers, writing on May 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just a quick post to say that although not much appears to be happening, we’re busy behind the scenes trying to sort out rules and posting guidelines.
One of the things I most want to see on here is a weekly brit-picking clinic, where anyone can ask questions about any aspects of British life they need [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, Britain, events, life on May 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Blossoms and Bygones: A Little-England Pic-spam
When I moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire it felt as if I’d also moved twenty years back in time. There were no McDonalds. None of the pizza shops delivered. There was even a tiny petrol garage where you had to wait for someone to come out and operate the [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, Britain, life, writers on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’re a British writer, and think you’d like to join a group aiming to (a) run an interesting blog and (b) hopefully try organizing some flesh-and-blood promotion in the UK as well, then please join the yahoo group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Britwriters/
Once you’ve done that, we can chat, and I can add you to the list of contributors [...]
Posted in Alex Beecroft, life, writing, tagged introduction, writing on May 10, 2008 | 13 Comments »
From the Britwriters
This is the new and currently slightly bare blog of a group of British writers. All of us are published mainly in the USA, so our daily lives are lived in two countries, with a foot in both cultures. Most of our peers and most of our readers are [...]
