Category Archives: writers
Submitting Your Manuscript to the Big 5 US Publishers
Originally posted on The Cat's Write:
Here’s a list of the Big 5 US Publishing Houses, their submission requirements and links to submission details. I’ve also included at the end of the list two smaller US Publishers that I…
ACE at Worcester Lit Fest
Must not forget to remind all interested writers and readers that we Authors of a Certain Age will be running a workshop on Writing Fiction for the Over Fifties at the Worcester Literary Festival. Left to right: Pam Nixon, author … Continue reading
Books to Escape With
The Literary Warrior returns after bloody battles with frustration and boredom, restored to mental vigour by immersion in some delicious (if murderous) mysteries. It is a puzzle that we British should so often talk of murder mysteries as ‘escapist’. But … Continue reading
A Personal View of the Beleaguered NHS
I have not written a blog for a long time now, and that is principally because I was anxious to complete my new novel The Porcupine’s Dilemma and gave myself an arbitrary deadline of Easter. The Book is done. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Famous Well-Chosen Words
I simply wish to share this post, which I discovered on A Not So Jaded Life blog. Good stuff for aspiring writers, so read on if you are one of us. All has been said before, of course, but here … Continue reading
China through fiction
I have long been intrigued by the China I have met through fiction, from Nobel Prize Winning Novelist Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, to John Hersey’s A Single Pebble and Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, as distinguished examples. And now I … Continue reading
We are ACE !
Some time ago, I wrote rather sadly about the trials of being a Writer of a Certain Age, and suggested we older authors might gather together to provide mutual support and encouragement. Well, lo and behold – a new and … Continue reading
HOW TO FALL INTO MURDER…
[I recently wrote the following as a guest blog on Marissa de Luna’s explorations of the travails of the would-be writer, the delightfully named The Coffee Stained Manuscript. My regular readers may be interested too.] I never intended to write … Continue reading
Elizabeth Mapstone
Elizabeth Mapstone: It's never too late... 