The Problem with POD’s

This week in Writer’s Weekly, Angela Hoy reports on how Print On Demand (POD) publishers make it nearly impossible for you to switch to another POD publisher if you are unhappy with the service you are getting. This is an excellent article. Read it – if you plan to self-puublish it can save you a [...]

Creative Writing Course

Susan Hill talks about PLACES in her Creative Writing Course blog. She finds that place is often as and sometimes more important than characters – that place helps to form the people who are born and bred and live in them. For the Thing To Do (TTD) she requests you go somewhere you can be [...]

Brit Writer Gets Nobel Literature Prize

Doris Lessing, who turns 88 on October 22nd, won the Noble Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels. She is the oldest person to win this prize for literature – not bad for a person who ended formal schooling at the age of 14. Lessing was shopping when the news of her Nobel broke. [...]