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Creative Writing Tutoring

In case you missed this post - As some of you know, I have been working for Adventures in Fiction, a creative writing mentoring programme based in London, which takes a limited number of apprentices each year for various genres. I will now be offering this service privately. More details via the link:
http://mevennen.livejournal.com/754644.html

Occult Conference

We hosted the first Occult Conference in Glastonbury yesterday and overall it went very well. We have had Hellfire Club Books to stay, in the form of E and C. E gave book binding demonstrations and brought down a lot of stock (all leather bound, gold stamped, marbled end papers etc: just lovely work if you are a book geek, which needless to say, we are).

There were a number of other book dealers there - Hadean Press (Erzebet is published by Prime, as well) and Scarlet Imprint. We had talks on...

Creative Writing Tutoring

In case you missed this post - As some of you know, I have been working for Adventures in Fiction, a creative writing mentoring programme based in London, which takes a limited number of apprentices each year for various genres. I will now be offering this service privately. More details via the link:

http://mevennen.livejournal.com/754644.html

Snow

We'd made an arrangement that if it started snowing, I'd come back into town and collect Trevor. Out in the orchard, a few flakes started coming down, so I kept an eye on it, messengered him and set out - by the time I got out of the back door, the snow had increased but there was still a thin line of wintry blue-green sky over the Tor. By the time we'd got out of the shop and on the road, it was as though someone had emptied an eiderdown over the landscape.

Just in time for Twelfth Night, wh...

This is a proud, proud day

I am in Thog's Masterclass:

http://news.ansible.co.uk/a270.html

(In the New Year extra).

Just goes to show. This one got past everyone.

Monday

Not exactly back to work, as we have been working all week and most of the weekend. It is very cold here - I saw a string of wild swans flying into a clear red sunset this evening, one of the moments where I realise just how beautiful this region is. There are peewits on the water meadows and this morning T and I saw a heron perched on someone's gable, and a small white egret in one of the rhynes.

We also have a small sparkly horse. True to his Shetland origins, Snowy hates it when it's hot, ...

Creative Writing Tutoring

Creative writing tutoring

As some of you know, I have been working for Adventures in Fiction, a creative writing mentoring programme based in London, which takes a limited number of apprentices each year for various genres. I will now be offering this service privately, and hope to be able to offer it both online and in person (I met my previous student on a regular basis, but this is dependent on geographical location!).

I will only be dealing with SF, Fantasy and Horror, or any related sub-g...

January Book Sale

To everyone who has enquired - I'll be working out the postage tomorrow and will get back to you all as soon as I know what it is likely to be.

If anyone else missed the original post and would like signed copies of my books, please email me at liz(at)arkady(dot)org and I will send you full details.

Cats and lillies

Folks, for those who don't know, we've just had a fright with a cat (not one of ours): lily pollen can be fatal to cats and kittens. I love lillies, but it isn't worth the risk. For more info, Goggle 'cats and lillies' or check out the link below.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nature/Question319206.html

New Year's Day

A beautiful clear day, which is now going down behind the ash trees into a fiery sunset.

We went to dinner with friends last night and E made raclette, with her new raclette set - I haven't had this since a rather disastrous exchange trip to the Haute Savoie when I was 16. We had it for Easter dinner and this was the only time in 3 weeks that I felt I'd eaten anything: the family were the social climbing bourgeousie and rationed everything to minute portions. The mother, whose name I have obli...