by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing
From the virtual corridors of SheWrites comes a handy post, How to Organize a Blog Tour For Your New Book’s Release by published author Nava Atlas. A blog tour is a virtual book tour to promote your book using relevant blogs around the internet. Instead of the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 11, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
May I point you to the valuable online forum for women writers, She Writes. In just over one year, Kamy Wicoff has established a thriving community for women who write, with over 9,000 members from more than thirty countries. Since joining I’ve found the live...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
The Australian Literary Review has published this review of Raymond Carver’s short stories in their unedited, pre-Gordon Lish versions, which has been released under Carver’s original title, Beginnings. The article uses the new book to explore the...
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 | Oct 3, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
Here’s a beautiful Pablo Neruda poem I heard for the first time this weekend at a friend’s literary gathering in Sydney. It’s an untitled work from the volume Absence and Presence, translated by Alastair Reid and featuring photographs by Luis Poirot,...