by Graeme Cumming | Sep 12, 2019 | Events, Literary Festivals, Writing |
Have you ever noticed that, when you buy a particular car, suddenly there are loads of them on the road? Or you buy an item of clothing, and everyone seems to be wearing it? The reality is that there aren’t more of those cars on the road, nor has that coat or dress...
by Graeme Cumming | Sep 10, 2019 | Events, Literary Festivals, Writing |
Regular readers (both of you!) might recall that, back in May, I went to the Market Deeping Literary Festival. One of the events I attended there was their Read Dating session, and I wrote about it here. A few weeks ago, I was chatting to a fellow writer who’s a...
by Graeme Cumming | Sep 8, 2019 | Events, Literary Festivals, Writing |
Like most of us when we reflect on our childhoods, I have some very happy memories, although I didn’t always appreciate how good it was at the time. Even so, I didn’t particularly like where I lived and couldn’t wait to move away and leave it behind – again, I...
by Graeme Cumming | Jun 27, 2019 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
This is a continuation from my last post, so you may want to read that first. Click here if you haven’t. Because the Deepings are a bit of a drive from my house, we’d travelled the night before and stopped at a Premier Inn in Peterborough. As with all Premier...
by Graeme Cumming | Jun 24, 2019 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
A couple of years ago, the incomparable Linda Hill made mention of the first Deepings Literary Festival on her blog, Linda’s Book Bag. As it happened, I was thinking I needed to go to some literary festivals and this one seemed like a good place to start. Sadly, the...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 1, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Movies |
If you missed the post that got us to this point, click here. Having decided to take the opportunity to obtain a signed copy of Forever And A Day, we waited for the long queue to gradually work its way down before joining it. I’d guess around 20 minutes passed as we...
