Dear Readers, Happy New Year! Watermyth‘s first publication anniversary was reached on 7th January 2025 after a rather challenging year of learning how to market and promote the book. These were all skillsets which I possessed to a certain limited degree. I had to promote my short stories, poems and Truancy Magazine, after all. However, … Continue reading Watermyth’s 1st Book Birthday Anniversary 💯
Like many authors, I started young. Very young, given I was an extremely precocious kid. I was around 8 years old when I declared I was going to be a writer, after devouring an entire collection of Coleridge’s poems. That same afternoon, I wrote my first poem. For comparison, I actually decided two years earlier … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: My (Difficult) Relationship with Writing/Craft Books
Hello! After a four year silence I finally have a work eligible for awards so of course I had to shriek about it, particularly since it’s my debut novel on which I have been working on (off and on, given life emergencies and a fulltime academic job!) for twenty years*! Watermyth was published on 7 … Continue reading ALARUMS: Awards Eligibility Post for Watermyth
I’ve been a plotter, I’ve been a pantser. But at the end of the day I realise I am just a plantser and would like to reject binaries. All stories are different. The way you write each one is different. Sometimes the planning comes first. Sometimes the impulse comes first, like an earworm or an … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: On Being a Plantser
I return to my planned series of posts about creative writing based on my experience as an editor, writer and creative writing educator for over a decade. I’m no longer teaching creative writing because of the programme restructuring over at my Centre; I teach literature, literacy, and popular culture courses for MA and PhD students … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: Seeking the Balance as a Creative Writing Educator