by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 1, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
One of the casualties of my rough re-entry to life in Sydney in the past two months has been this blog, which served the original purpose of keeping friends and family informed, and occasionally amused, about aspects of my life in New York during 2006-07. From the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 19, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Today I was invited to join the Management Committee of the Sydney chapter of PEN, the international organisation dedicated to freedom of expression, and after a conversation with the organisation’s president I’ve decided to accept the honourable...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 17, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
At Bennelong Point on Sunday afternoon I was happily anticipating the inaugural session of the Sydney Opera House Talks series, an important addition to Sydney’s cultural landscape. One of my favourite contemporary creative minds, playwright Tom Stoppard, was...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 17, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Well the PR wheels are already in motion – I’ve been alerted to an article in December’s Australian Bookseller & Publisher entitled “The Ones to Watch in 2008”, in which publishers spruik a few titles from their forthcoming schedule...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 29, 2007 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Delighted to finally be able to share the news that I have secured a London-based agent at the esteemed Rogers, Coleridge & White Agency to sell The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement in the UK and beyond. All of this is totally in the realm of miracles...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 22, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
Wearing my grant-seeker’s cap, I am researching potential funders for a large-scale nonprofit initiative on behalf of a client. During my efforts today I was struck by how many well-intentioned grant-makers offer vague descriptions of the sorts of organisations...