Meg Rosoff's Blog, page 6
May 22, 2012
‘Keeping our children safe’ and other killing concepts.
Everyone knows that writers don’t just write. Aside from walking dogs and riding horses with a soupcon of parenting and bill paying on the side, I do festival talks, a bit of journalism, some teaching, and run a monthly storytelling group called True Stories Told Live with three other Londoners (Kerry Shale, actor; Kate Bland, radio [...]
May 19, 2012
Imaginary friends.
I was thinking about the next book as I wandered through Abney cemetery with the dogs this morning. Abney is a great place to find names, though I tend to forget them by the time I get home. (Note to self: pen and paper.) It’s hard not to consider the large community of dead people [...]
May 17, 2012
A Directory of Unexpected Places
A person quite near and dear to me who shall remain nameless has a habit of misplacing things. Keys (mainly keys), glasses, shoes, important bits of paper, things that were just here a second ago, vital documents that someone must have moved, maliciously displaced objects. Etc. These misplaced things often turn up in odd places. Like the [...]
May 7, 2012
Picture Me Gone
First there was the Amazon page, now there’s an actual cover. OK, an early cover, but still. My fantastic Penguin cover designer, Katie Finch, picked up on the fact that a great number of its chapters take place in American motels, and gave me a very beautiful neon sign. It’s way too early to talk [...]
May 4, 2012
How I Live Now Film Update
I’ve been getting a lot of queries lately, and though I don’t know a huge amount about what’s going on, here’s what I do know: The script is still being polished, and no, I haven’t read it. There are four or five actors in the running for Edmond and three for Piper, and they’ll be workshopping [...]
May 2, 2012
How to plot your book the hard way.
I am terrible at plot. For a very long time (46 years, to be precise), this was the main reason I knew for certain that I couldn’t be a writer. It was, however, before I made two important discoveries. 1. You can steal plots. Pride & Prejudice always works, as does David Copperfield, but any story [...]
April 29, 2012
Word count.
When I started writing How I Live Now, I e-mailed my agent and asked how long a book is supposed to be. In retrospect it strikes me as a funny question, one that goes right alongside ‘how many characters should a book have? and ‘is it OK to set my book in 1975?’ In a [...]
April 22, 2012
It’s World Book Night!
No no no, I mean, it’s the morning of World Book Night, which means you still have hours to decide what you’re going to wear. I thought I’d borrow my daughter’s Cat in the Hat outfit, one of my few forays into Proper Motherhood. (Yes, I made it. Just look at those 3 fingered gloves [...]
PICTURE MEG ONE
I am startled to discover that my new book already has an amazon page. Yes, Picture Me Gone, will be published on March 7, 2013, in hardback, and will set you back £12.99. The reason I’m startled is that I’m still a teensy bit dubious about one of the subplots, my editor hasn’t read the final [...]
April 13, 2012
The end of the world is nigh.
Nothing to do with the fact that I haven’t been blogging much recently (sorry…) which has more to do with being away, and finding the blogging centre of my brain uncharacteristically occupied by finishing the latest novel. This means the end of the book is nigh. Which is good. But the end of the world is [...]
