by Virginia Lloyd | Jan 2, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
In January, I tend to review the year that has just ended, and try to set a couple of realistic goals for myself for the year ahead. Perhaps my sense of reflection is sharper at this time of year because there are so many January birthdays in my family, and we...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 16, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Australians Germaine Greer, Nam Le and Kate Veitch have made it into the influential Best Books 2008 list recently issued by the Library Journal of America. This achievement is quite extraordinary given the very select company these writers are keeping – the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Dec 15, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
An extract from my The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement appears in the January 2009 issue of Psychologies, a monthly magazine published in the UK. I might be biased, but since learning about this magazine I have been amazed at how much content there is in...
by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 2, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Milan Kundera poses this question in his 2007 book, The Curtain (reviewed here by Michael Dirda): Every novel created with real passion aspires quite naturally to a lasting aesthetic value, meaning to a value capable of surviving its author. To write without having...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 5, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’ve been honoured with an invitation to be guest speaker at a Pink Ribbon Day event in Sydney on October 21st, so it’s with mixed feelings that I’m cutting short my current stint in New York. The event is one of many awareness- and fund-raising...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 9, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Anyone who has attended a writers’ festival or a book signing – whether as a writer or reader – should get several guffaws out of this account by novelist Ann Patchett in The Atlantic about her experiences on book tours. Although chock-full of the...