by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 16, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
This indiereader.com article is a really useful survey of published authors’ thoughts about revision and editing their own work. How encouraging to read that the bestselling Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air) regards his first drafts as “almost always...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 25, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
The oldest public-domain book in the world is leading the way with interactive electronic publishing formats. Some niche electronic editions of the Bible are so sophisticated compared to what’s available on Kindle, according to this wry and fascinating piece in...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
Any writer aspiring to publication should read this sobering but, in my view, accurate analysis in The Guardian of ‘The Death of the Slush Pile’. The slush pile – that generic term for the stream of unsolicited submissions that arrive at publishing...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 3, 2010 | Blog, Memoir
Many people I know have had something of a struggle in 2009. Here are some wonderful new year wishes from the remarkable writer Neil Gaiman that are too good not to share: May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 22, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
I’ve recently come across this fascinating interview with Umberto Eco on the occasion of a new exhibition he has curated at the Louvre in Paris. The exhibition is about the nature of lists, poets who list things in their work, and painters who accumulate things...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 2, 2009 | Blog, Memoir
My head is spinning after reading some statistics on the sales of music over the past decade. From their peak in 1999, the value of record sales has halved in ten years, according to the Recording Industry of America and quoted in this op-ed by the New York...