Friends, Tweeters, countrymen…

Thanks to Twitter, we’ve been able to organise some terrific visitors in the last few weeks.

Jean Fullerton (@EastLondonGirly) author of No Cure for Love, A Glimpse at Happiness, Perhaps Tomorrow is a friend and colleague from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She, her husband and three grandchildren came and spent the afternoon with us. Despite […]

Take a blank sheet of garden…

Talking about muck-raking, sorry, rock-raking, reminded me about the parallels of writing a novel and creating a new garden.

With a novel, you start with a blank sheet of paper, or a blank computer screen, with a garden you start with something like this.

 

 

 

 

You carry out a survey and draw […]

Rock-raking is the new editing.

Friends who follow me on Twitter (@alison_morton) have been hearing about my rock-raking in recent days. Let me explain. We live on top of a chalk cliff. The view is magnificent, but the soil is crap. That’s a bit harsh. The soil is fertile, fine, and the weeds grow as if on Viagra. But there […]

Oh, and the answers to the quiz

The correct answers were…

How many numbered tips did I give you when researching? 4 numbered tips What speed was my heroine doing in her Giulietta? 130kph How many attended Lumb Bank? 16 ‘students’, including me How many things do we learn when taking it on the chin? 7 things What page had I reached […]

And the winner is…

Thank you all for entering the competition – you were brilliant!

The winner was Liz Harris from Oxford and a signed copy of Elizabeth Buchan’s Light of the Moon will be on its way to her, courtesy of La Poste’s (cheap) ‘cultural service’. Yes, the French post office has a cheap rate for books, manuscripts, […]