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 1, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Today I’m finally moving back under my own roof after two weeks of limbo induced by having to concentrate on finishing the book. My parents, as ever, have been not only very hospitable, but also helpful in assisting with the heavier items and unpacking all those...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 29, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
So here I am, upstairs in my parents’ house, having finished earlier today The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. Recently I learned that there’s a novel floating around with the title of The Household Guide to Dying, which will probably be...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 13, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Half an hour to go until the Fedex guy arrives with my edited manuscript – via Brisbane, Brooklyn, Newark, Memphis (these last two stops I gleaned from tracking my package via the Fedex website), and now Los Angeles. Until I am clutching the pages in my hot...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 11, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Left NYC this morning for the airport at 5.15 am, sans critically important package that was “guaranteed” to be in my hands by noon yesterday. Critically important package being my edited manuscript. Which turned up this afternoon at my Brooklyn cafe,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 9, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
With a couple of strange days left here, I’ve shifted my heavy suitcase to my old Brooklyn neighbourhood and am writing this from my friend Cheryl’s three-storey brownstone. The late summer is suddenly shifting gear – today the sky has filled with...