My copy of Mslexia has just arrived in the post. If you’re not familiar with it, I can heartily recommend it. It has a huge variety of articles and tackles everything from poetry to writing scripts for corporate videos. A mine of information (spot the cliche!) on competitions, courses, what’s on the radio and the internet about writing. Contributors include writers, agents, publishers… no I don’t have shares. It’s just b****y brilliant.
This edition has a major feature on blogging as a marketing tool for authors, so that’s my bedtime reading sorted out for tonight.
On the subject of reading, I’m thoroughly enjoying the current Granta. An imaginative friend gave me a year’s subscription for a birthday present. This quarter’s theme, ‘Best of Young American Novelists’, is not only educating me in same but is proving a great read. There is too the serendipitous extra interest that the editor Ian Jack lives for part of the year on Bute.
PS I had a great weekend with my cheese shop pals who have won the north of England/Scotland section of a prestigious industry award and will go to London as one of the three national finalists.
I would really like to read that article on blogging for authors in Mslexia. What month/which edition is it in? I’ve been getting a kick out of writing my blog – it’s good fun having permission to sit down and talk about yourself and your writing once a week! – but there is NO DOUBT a lot more to it, to do it right.
Two issues have featured blogging – no 28 Jan-Mar 2006 and no 34 Jul-Sept 2007. I have a friend who does all sorts of whizzy things – http://www.blethers.blogspot.com