A weekend of learning to negotiate the online and off-line world as an author

Taking a break from blogging, or checking p-mail?For me, it's been a full-on weekend with a workshop on Saturday for Authors conducted by the ASA about the ways in which we can use social media to enable people to find our work. Amanda Kendle ran the workshop and probably changed a few lives in the process. There'll be a few more blogs, tweets and web pages popping up as a result.

On Sunday we had our monthly meeting of the Book Length Project Group. Rosemary Sayer came along and guided us through some exercises on how to talk about our work. A generalisation perhaps, but it seems to ring true that authors tend to be fairly solitary creatures when they are working, and find it hard to put into a few succinct words what it is that they are working on - or have worked on, for that matter. I can't tell you how useful it is to actually practice these skills, and we all had a great session with a lot of laughs. Thank you to the wonderful Rosemary Sayer, for so generously giving up her time to work with the group!