The week ahead at EssentialWriters.com
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With autumn well under way, this is a time of increased creativity for many of us, and you’ll find plenty to get you excited about writing and reading this week at EssentialWriters.com. Among the practical tips and opportunities, strange fruit and even stranger characters abound, so take a look at what we’ve been harvesting!
We’ve been searching the job market and have discovered a company seeking a launch editor for their exciting new lifestyle magazine, so take a look this Monday to see if it’s the role for you!
On Tuesday I’ll be sharing my thoughts on Kate Pullinger’s exquisite The Mistress of Nothing. Inspired by a true story, the novel has the power to utterly transport you. At one point while reading it on a train I was so immersed in a description of a journey down the Nile that I almost missed my stop! In the afternoon I’ll be posting an interview with Kate in our EssentialWords section, so read it to find out what drives her to constantly experiment with her writing styles and mediums.
If you’re interested in being interviewed for the EssentialWords section yourself, let me know. We’re happy to pick the brains for authors, poets, journalists, screenwriters, playwrights… anyone who plays with words really!
On the subject of inspirational writers, Gwen at Alcemi Books has been in touch to let us know that Twenty Thousand Saints by Fflur Dafydd has been chosen for a UK libraries promotion, The People’s Book Prize, for October. This offers everyone the chance to vote for their favourite book from the selection online, until the end of November, so go to www.peoplesbookprize.com and get voting!
On Wednesday we’re posting a run-down of the literary events you can attend this autumn. One of the highlights is Telltales Volume XI: Strange Fruit, which offers you the opportunity to submit writings on the subject of strange fruit, however you wish to interpret that!
In the afternoon you can read our interview with speculative fiction author Paul A. Green, whose most recent release is The Qliphoth.
On Friday writer and storyteller Miles Cain offers us his thoughts on why peculiar and unpleasant characters are so popular in literature. It’s an intriguing question - why do we so love these weirdos on the written page when we would go out of our way to avoid them in real life? Read Miles’ feature and let us know your opinion by posting a comment or heading to the forums.
If there’s an event you’d like to let us know about, a literary treasure you’re keen to share or a subject you yearn to explore, email me at Judy@EssentialWriters.com and let me know what you want us to cover, or what you’d like to write about yourself. Feedback and submissions are always welcome at EssentialWriters.com
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