From: James Ellis To: <Customer Care> Subject: Re: Complaint – unused deposit taken [ref:_99DFT6200_gtDDS529:ref] Date: 10 Mar 2020, at 08:27 Dear <Customer Care> – a few comments on your response to my complaint. From one writer to another. Best, James…. Read More ›
I have an idea, elusive and shadowy, but definitely there. The shape of something. The right something. It needs to be pushed and prodded (gently), given substance by being handled. Coaxed into the light so I can see it more… Read More ›
As part of its pre-launch marketing process, Unbound have arranged for Happy Family to be serialised on The Pigeonhole. This is a great way to get reviews and build a buzz before its publication early next year. You can check it out and… Read More ›
After much discussion the working title of my second novel, An Other’s Look, has been changed to Happy Family. I love this title because it works at so many different levels. The book is scheduled for release in early 2020… Read More ›
As the old joke goes: ‘There are three rules to writing novels. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.’ I like that. Recently, I was a guest speaker at a writers’ workshop and I was asked what rules I follow. I paraphrased Elmore… Read More ›
This is my incomplete but sometimes useful list for when I am down in the weeds of editing. I’m sure you will have your own lists but these are the words, phrases and elements of punctuation that regularly get the… Read More ›
I’d like to tell you why I’m so excited by An Other’s Look that I can override my natural awkwardness and ask people to help me; why I am willing to thump the drum and rattle the cup and toot the whistle… Read More ›
If you fancy some lunchtime conversation, tune into the Frome FM Book Club (96.6FM or online) on Friday, 27th April, at 1pm. I will be talking about An Other’s Look and how I came to write it. I’m doubly excited… Read More ›
The Wrong Story, is going on a blog book tour. Here’s the poster with its itinerary. I’ve asked it to send postcards. Do you think I should have a tour T-shirt made up? By the way, if you want to… Read More ›
Here’s something a bit different – a piece of Flash Fiction – and I’m enormously grateful to the wonderful The Pygmy Giant for publishing it. Coming Out Of The Upstairs
