Her hidden face – cover-art on historical fiction
Commentary spun off from last week: why so much cover-art for historical novels with female protagonists features a woman who hides her face or whose face is hidden.
Elin’s Story
In the laundry
In which, doing the laundry, I catch sight of my younger self, struggle with Monty Pythonesque machinery and read poetry.
Elin’s Story: The Long Way to Published
Elin’s Story: How I came to choose Elin’s Story as my historical novel project and why it has taken me so long to get nowhere with it.
Advice
Take my advice. Do not under any circumstances decide to start two new websites at more or less the same time.
Adel, YWO and Elin’s Developments
Adel Publishing, the YouWriteOn website and developments with Elin’s Story – also the beginning of my daily photoblog about Gothenburg GBG365
Elin’s Story: Review of reviews
Reviews of an Elin’s Story extract published on YouWriteOn, interpretations of & take-homes from the comments – plus thoughts on some other reviews received
Not the next big author
Reporting on The Next Big Author competition and how the extract of Elin’s Story that I posted there fared.
Further at YouWriteOn …
Just a short up-date on developments at YouWriteOn where an extract from the current draft of Elin’s Story is in competition.
The Next Big Author and YouWriteOn
About the Next Big Author February 2012 Writing Competition and the YouWriteOn site. Also briefly about my writing March 2012.
Persperistance II
November is the cruelest month – the days get shorter, darker, duller, and my pleasure, delight and creativity, spirals away down a plughole.