by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 12, 2007 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
My my, how the dinner table has turned: last Friday I was taken out to lunch by my publisher, to celebrate the fact that UQP has bought my book and will publish it next year. It was such a relief to feel an instant rapport with the people who have the power to help or...
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 | Aug 28, 2007 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
It pains me to tell you this, dear reader, but two nights ago someone was shot on my block. Still alive; just a scratch to the forearm, by the accounts I’ve heard. It’s the first incident of this kind I know about in the year I have lived in Prospect...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 12, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I am thrilled to announce officially that my memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, will be published next year in Australia by UQP. As many of you know, I have been working on this book for most of the time I’ve been living in New York....
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 8, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
This is the inevitable but entirely appropriate title to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s deliberation in this weekend’s New York Times on how his love of jazz music helped him to write. As a long-time jazz fan myself, I liked best this anecdote:...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 13, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
It’s been a Big Week in the Big Apple for Apple Girl. In the past seven days I have: 1. sold another book to Pan Macmillan Australia on behalf of my Bridge Literary Services client Sally Cooper, for her hilarious memoir of two years in Afghanistan – yes, a...