Happy Old Year

Speechless Tuesday

My new idea for "Speechless Tuesday" is to use it as an excuse to highlight blogs that I read and enjoy. To wit, Superficial Gallery (from whom I borrowed the stunning Alphonse Mucha image) ponders pronunciation far more eloquently than I. Check it out and watch this space for a weekly recommendation of the finest blog brews out there.

Final Friday of 2009!

It's the last Friday of the Naughties, as our Briton friends like to say. This was a good end to the decade and '09 was a huge improvement over the previous year: I have no real gripes here at the end, especially seeing that 2010 is set to be an even better year.


Many thanks to readers who offered advice how I should proceed in selling my manuscript!

My old friend, Mr Woolcott, made the wry suggestion that I approach potential agents with a firearm -as leverage, naturally. I may resort to this should the year not go as planned.

Glynis advised me to establish a blog for my novel, which was echoed by Jen. The ladies, I have to admit, got me all fired up to take this approach.

Keep an eye out next month for a new blog. I'm devising one that will start out as platform for my shorter works of fiction, of which there are plenty, with the idea that it could be open to contributions from other writers. What do you think, sound nuts?