Reviewing Your Own Novel

Here we go again: putting a finished novel out on submission, hoping against all hope that somehow, it manages to find the right home. The novel in question has been a work of passion for me, written as I finished off my PhD, the story somehow never managing to leave me, even as the pressuresContinue reading “Reviewing Your Own Novel”

Writing Dickens – Week 6

As I am about to post chapters 11 and 12 of my version of Hard Times, shadowing Dickens’s instalments from 170 years ago, I wanted to shared where I got the idea for writing it, as well as talk about where the two songs that were sung in last week’s instalment by Kit and AiliseContinue reading “Writing Dickens – Week 6”