Fahrenheit Press tweeted the following. It won't last forever but it made me smile:
It's Book Launch Time...
The design team at Fahrenheit have created a wonderful cover (they also came up with the new title 'Iteration' to replace my working title 'Jennifer's Garden') - and the book is due to hit the shelves tomorrow.
Here’s the…
Read moreHow Mslexia magazine's Indie Presses guide connected me with my new publisher Fahrenheit Press (Facebook article for Mslexia)
My MA novel The Eternity Fund was shortlisted for Mslexia’s unpublished novel competition in 2013. The shortlisting may have been a factor in securing me an agent four months later - it added something to my covering letter, making it a…
Seriously?
Recently, I came face to face with one of those odd little unsolvable mysteries.
I was ordering an on-line shop including ice cream for the kids, when I noticed that the Morrisons site had somehow put a picture of The…
Out in paperback!
Fahrenheit Press's Chris McVeigh has signed The Eternity Fund, which is now a published e-book, and will soon become, for the first time, a paperback. This is after what seems like a very long wait, during which time the…
Extract, 'The Eternity Fund'
Before starting to write the next instalment of The Eternity Fund, I read the original again to refresh my memory. It's so easy to forget bit-part characters' names and physical appearances, and what you called things (memory caplets, bleep-codes, hops, and a…
Extract, 'Iteration'
Ottie
‘Hey, you – prettygirl curlylocks,’ Grey leaned around the fire and fixed her eyes on Ottie. They were small, sharp, and dark. ‘Fix me another bowl of stew.’
Ottie straightened up. Grey held out her bowl. Her arm rippled…
'Words With Jam' article: 'An industry view on the Creative Writing MA'
About a month ago, a friend asked me to write an article for an e-zine. I duly wrote it and submitted the text with a selection of JPeg photographs, then continued with my novel-in-progress, wondering if and when the piece…Read more
Writers’ Retreats
Having experienced a ‘taught’ retreat as an MA student battling with my debut novel, I have to say that I found it liberating.
There’s nothing like escaping from the daily drag in order to be able…
The Creative Writing MA - two years (part time) to create a novel
‘The bone-yard and the wilderness beyond weren’t visible, but I felt them, in a stillness and quiet that stretched further than sight, and soughed around the edges of my consciousness like wind through broken glass.’
Jess Green
'Frozen'