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That NaNoWriMo word emetic

National Novel Writing Month started three days ago. CUCKOO – out in March 2011 – was my[…]

Pretending to be a proper author

Today, to lunch near Headline’s offices with my editor and my publicist, the formidable Sam Eades. After[…]

Zeitgeist or what?

This in email from Agent Simon:

Typeset proofs returned – almost

I finally got the proofs back to Headline, only a couple of days later than promised. And[…]

It’s realer…

Oh my god. Leah sent over the cover art and, as you can see, it is fantastic.[…]

Procrastination

It’s amazing what you can get done when you have a knotty bit of story to avoid…

It’s real

Leah, my editor, has sent over copy for the CUCKOO hardback cover.  This is swiftly followed in[…]

Alice Neel Rocks

Went with daughter to the Alice Neel show at the Whitechapel Gallery. What a beautiful show, and[…]

Sometimes doing something other than you think you ought to be doing brings results

So I had fallen into a bit of a plot hole – suddenly from a slow build[…]

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