Beatrice Colin's Blog - Posts Tagged "mars-jones"
Listening to the sound of trains
This is my first attempt at a blog - It's a beautifully sunny day in Glasgow and the sky is blue above the train tracks outside my window. Tomorrow I head north to the Dundee Literary Festival http://www.literarydundee.co.uk/festi... where I'm reading. It's a lunchtime slot and if you buy a ticket to see me you automatically receive a sandwich and a mug of tea. I'm trying not to feel slightly upstaged by the photograph of the sandwich in the programme - it's about four times the size of my photograph. I'm having dinner with a few authors the night before. I don't know who yet but it could be Adam Mars-Jones and Gerald Scarfe.
The catalogue copy for my next book, The Songwriter came yesterday - it's coming out in March 2010 - all very exciting. The cover should arrive any day now and the text is about to be sent to the copy editor for a final going over. The children's book that Sara Pinto and I wrote together, My Invisible Sister, is penned to come out in May 2010, so it should be a busy year. More soon.
The catalogue copy for my next book, The Songwriter came yesterday - it's coming out in March 2010 - all very exciting. The cover should arrive any day now and the text is about to be sent to the copy editor for a final going over. The children's book that Sara Pinto and I wrote together, My Invisible Sister, is penned to come out in May 2010, so it should be a busy year. More soon.
Lost in Fiction
Dundee is beautiful - a great wide river, the Tay, crossed by a rusting railway bridge. My reading went smoothly aided by Adam Mars-Jone's extremly lovable dog, Rothko, who barked madly when people clapped. As well as reading Luminous/Glimmer I read a section of my new novel and realised that it took an awfully long time to cut to the chase. Came home and re-jigged it. So readings can be extremely useful. Sometimes when I read I'm not sure if people are sitting with their eyes closed because they're snoozing or if they're soaking it all in. I don't really get nervous before but I do panic mid-way if I start to think people are bored/thinking about what they're going to have for lunch.
I've reached a bit of a lull workwise. I'm about to start researching the next book but am still fiddling with The Songwriter. The publishers sent a cover. We (my agent and I) didn't like it. Hopefully they'll come up with something much better. Luminous/Glimmer still riding high in the Amazon charts although some one gave it a one star review. I've learned not to worry too much about these. I took a look at his other reviews and he gave one or two stars to everything.
A friend told me that our new local bookshop, Lost in Fiction is in trouble. If you live in Glasgow, go and buy a book from them.
I've reached a bit of a lull workwise. I'm about to start researching the next book but am still fiddling with The Songwriter. The publishers sent a cover. We (my agent and I) didn't like it. Hopefully they'll come up with something much better. Luminous/Glimmer still riding high in the Amazon charts although some one gave it a one star review. I've learned not to worry too much about these. I took a look at his other reviews and he gave one or two stars to everything.
A friend told me that our new local bookshop, Lost in Fiction is in trouble. If you live in Glasgow, go and buy a book from them.
