Modigliani’s muse: the evolution of a novel
I first discovered the story of Jeanne Hebuterne from Linda Lappin’s wonderful essay ‘Missing Person in Montparnasse: the case of Jeanne Hebuterne’. I was already a Modigliani fan and was… Read the rest →
Archives for January 2015
Monday morning writing prompt: the muddy boots
Sometimes life can get in the way of writing, so I thought I’d help to get you in the writing zone each week by offering you a regular writing prompt. … Read the rest →
Alice Jolly’s experience of working with Unbound, a ‘crowd-funded’ publisher
When I first met novelist and playwright Alice Jolly, she was between projects, uncertain about her future direction as a writer. We worked together only briefly, but I have been… Read the rest →
Annual reading review, part one: looking back on a reading year as an NQT
In his wonderful book The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time, David Ulin writes that reading is “an act of resistance in a landscape of… Read the rest →
