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Trees, Bees and Day-drinking: a guest post by Kris Calvin

Sitting typing isn’t what we evolved to do, no matter how rewarding it might be. At your desk and/or away from it, how do you counteract the physical toll a writing life takes on your body?

Catriona writes: I'm doubly delighted today. First, I get to dodge this question, to which my answer would be . . . unedifying. Second - and much more important, my friend Kris Calvin is here! 

Kris is my film-going buddy (the day we sit in the cinema watching Paddington 3 is the day we'll know this is over);...

Monty Don's got a lot to answer for... by Cathy Ace

Sitting typing isn’t what we evolved to do, no matter how rewarding it might be. At your desk and/or away from it, how do you counteract the physical toll a writing life takes on your body?

This question’s a bit like one of those cans of worms that explode when you open them...however carefully I try to answer it I’m not going to end up looking good...though I think this does...my garden!

You can see 6 of our hydrangeas here - we have a couple of hundred
I know we humans were not designed to sit t...

Battling the Paradox

Sitting typing isn’t what we evolved to do, no matter how rewarding it might be. At your desk and/or away from it, how do you counteract the physical toll a writing life takes on your body?

From Frank

It's quite the paradox, isn't it? We write about action (at least some of the time) while sitting on our backsides. Only our fingers and our brains are getting any kind of workout, but it is only our bums that get sore...

I've done a few things over the years to combat the dangers of this. The first r...

Oh, My Aching Back

 Q: Sitting typing isn’t what we evolved to do, no matter how rewarding it might be. At your desk and/or away from it, how do you counteract the physical toll a writing life takes on your body?

- from Susan

My particular problems stem from my inability to look at the screen while typing, which also means I can’t see typos until I stop typing and look at the screen in horror. The dismay is in part the result of my three-finger typing [I had to retype the word “typing” 3 times to get it right, by th...

Horses for Courses

by Abir

As there's more and more consolidation in the world of publishing, how do you view—generally, and for you personally—big publisher vs small publisher vs self-publishing now? Have your views changed since you were first published?  

So here’s the thing. I’m old, and the modern world feels dangerous and scary to me. Technology peaked with the moon landings and the VCR and any developments thereafter have basically been unnecessary frippery designed to keep young people occupied so they don't...

publishing with a lowercase p from james w. ziskin

 As there's more and more consolidation in the world of publishing, how do you view—generally, and for you personally—big publisher vs small publisher vs self-publishing now? Have your views changed since you were first published? 

I feel a little boxed in by this week’s question. Since I have only published novels with a small press, I have no experience with major publishers. Or with self-publishing, for that matter. I can say that the small press I started with changed hands a couple of years ...

Luck of the Draw

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As there's more and more consolidation in the world of publishing, how do you view—generally, and for you personally—big publisher vs small publisher vs self-publishing now? Have your views changed since you were first published? 

by Dietrich

The ink was drying on my first novel when I sent a submission to ECW Press in Toronto. Jack David said he’d take a look, and a few weeks later he wrote back that he wanted to publish it, asking if I could do it two more times. After I stopp...

Publish or Perish the Thought

Terry Shames here: This week our question is about publishing: As there's more and more consolidation in the world of publishing, how do you view - generally, and for you personally - big publisher vs small publisher vs self-publishing now? Have your views changed since you were first published? 
 When I first started looking for an agent about 100 years ago give or take, the only way to get published was to either find an agent, who would find you a publisher, or find the rare publisher who wo...

The Changing Publishing Landscape

As there's more and more consolidation in the world of publishing, how do you view  - generally, and for you personally - big publisher vs small publisher vs self-publishing now? Have your views changed since you were first published? 

Brenda Chapman starting off the week.

When I first looked for a publisher, way back at the start of the 2000s, self-publishing was considered the last avenue for serious writers. The unspoken and sometimes spoken implication was that self-published works were of les...

Guest Post: Stephanie Gayle, Vice-President Sisters in Crime

I was asked to write a piece about Sisters in Crime (SinC) because, in part, March is Women’s History Month and SinC was founded to address the disparity in opportunities and book reviews women crime authors received in comparison to their male peers. I could’ve written a piece about how much our organization has done, and changed, and grown, and what great initiatives we have planned. We’re doing good work, work I’m very proud of, but I can’t write about it now. Because I’m too angry. My hands ...