Meg Rosoff's Blog, page 11
November 8, 2011
Picture Me Gone.
My legs ache. So does my head. And my throat. It's all my fault. Just the other day I was thinking how well things were going. The book is unstuck, I'm getting on top of my work, and best of all, I HAVEN'T BEEN ILL IN SOMETHING LIKE TWO YEARS. How amazing. Oh hell. Did [...]
November 6, 2011
KM Peyton
Throwing big parties is a very tiring business, so I think I'll just reprint the Guardian article I wrote 10 days ago….yes, I know it's journalistic recycling at it's worst, but I am desperately trying to finish a draft of the new book before my editor goes into labour. Which, judging on the size of [...]
November 1, 2011
The thing about The Big Book.
I'll never forget the evening before publication of Just In Case, when the lovely Tracy Chevalier (Girl With A Pearl Earring) told me that every book I wrote after The Big Book would sell at least 15% less than the previous one. I was horrified and appalled. How little I knew. Nowadays, the thought of selling [...]
October 30, 2011
What does a story smell like?
The book I'm reading about the mysterious workings of the brain posits that sense experience is not linear. So the fact that dogs have 220 million olfactory receptors in their noses while humans have only 5 million does not mean that dogs smell a dirty sock at 44 times the volume that we do. What it [...]
October 28, 2011
Something to make you happy, something to make you…furious.
Have a look at this. It turns out to be an ad for something or other — but I don't care; it's fantastic. Speaking of advertising, I've been thinking about my past career today, possibly because the news is full of 49% pay rises for UK top bosses while spending on education, health and social [...]
October 24, 2011
My dream house.
I had the dream again last night. In it, I am trying to make sense of a house that's too small and cramped. It's awful. We have to move. And then suddenly I discover a false wall, or a door I never noticed. Once it led to an entire empty floor above the one we [...]
October 21, 2011
Reasons to be cheerful.
What with the economy tanking and sugar prices rising, not to mention cutbacks in the NHS and eighteen rare Bengal tigers shot in Zanesville, Ohio, the news seems to be almost all bad this week.* In an attempt to be positive, I offer you the following list of things that make me happy, in the hopes [...]
October 20, 2011
October 17, 2011
The idea ghost visits me in the night.
It's been a sticky couple of months. I got to the end of the path on my first draft, and there didn't seem to be anywhere else to go. I looked around, reread, forced myself to take little forays into the woods on both sides of the path, set my brain free, reeled it back [...]
October 13, 2011
BBC: The Unkindest Cuts
According to a letter signed by 37 producers of shows such as Desert Island Discs and Midweek, a quarter of all Radio 4 producers are due to be axed in the upcoming BBC cutbacks. I'm sorry, but this makes me want to weep. Not because I'm a member of the English middle-class conspiracy to support [...]
