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 | May 14, 2019 | Blogging, Meetings, Writing |
The Bloggers Bash presents opportunities for several things: to meet up and mingle with old friends and new; to be there when the Bash Awards prizes are announced and presented; and to learn more about the art of blogging. One of the ways we fulfil that last...
by Graeme Cumming | Feb 10, 2019 | Book Reviews, Writing |
It’s not very often I do book reviews. Those I do tend to be of books written by Indie authors. The reality, though, is that, whilst there are some amazing Indies out there, there are also some rubbish ones who’ve taken advantage of the fact they can...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 22, 2018 | Life Lessons, Speaking, Uncategorised, Writing |
Eleven years ago, I was dreading Christmas. I’d split up with my partner the previous spring and she had decided to go to her mum’s for a few days, taking our children with her. It would have been wrong for me to argue. After all, it had been my decision to break the...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 24, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
If you missed the post about the Marlborough Literary Festival and feel you’ve missed out, click here. We’d been to the Marlborough Festival on a Saturday. The events we’d booked at Henley were on the Wednesday, our first at 4:30, so there was no rush to get...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 21, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
Because neither my partner nor I had been to a literary festival before, we didn’t know how our time would be spent, so it made sense to check the programme and pick out specific events to attend. When I ran through them, though, there weren’t many that appealed to...
