by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 21, 2011 | Blog, Memoir
A London publishing panel titled “New Skill Sets: Capabilities Publishers Don’t Have and How They’re Developing Them” has called for a new generation of book editors with a creative and collaborative approach to digital publishing. In The Role...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 14, 2010 | Blog, Improve your writing
For anyone who ever loved a typewriter. Take a look at this recitation of the sounds of 62 different typewriters made between the 1890s and 1979, which I found over at Meanjin’s blog Spiked. Yes, that’s Michael Winslow performing the astonishing sound...
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 5, 2010 | Blog, Pianos and pianists on the stage and the page
Ruined-piano connoisseur Ross Bolleter plays in his garden. Courtesy World Association for Ruined Piano Studies WARPS.com Further to some comments I made on the Meanjin blog Spiked a few days ago in response to happy endings, which took the film adaptation of Cormac...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 7, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing
I am one of many people in the US and Australia and elsewhere who are always looking for ways to engage more people with some amazing music that doesn’t fall neatly into one musical category. We are still relying on a term called “jazz” that is often...