Wands, Warp-drives and Women
Image via Wikipedia Given I have one of those sexless names, I should be clear from the off I’m a bloke, not a bird. Drew as in Andrew, not as in Barrymore. So this blog is by special permission (thanks Sarah). I shall shortly be found over at blokes-on-the-blog once I’m all set up, and [...]
Do you judge a book by its cover?
I’m not speaking metaphorically in this instance, but literally. Lionel Shriver wrote an article in the Guardian last week about how publishers use book covers as a way of targetting women readers… “With merciful exceptions, my publishers constantly send prospective covers for my books that play to what “women readers” supposedly want. Take the American [...]
Pay attention @StephenFry Dr Who = Food for the Soul
(Spoiler alert – for the final episode, Series 5 Episode 13, Big Bang) I’m addicted to story and I’m not at all ashamed of it. Story is too often looked down, as being of minor interest in proper, grown up literary fiction. Graham Greene, for instance, used to try to divide his novels into what [...]
Plagiarism and finding ideas
There have been a couple of news stories about plagiarism recently – one involving J K Rowling and her Harry Potter series, the other involving a German teenager, Helene Hegemann, whose novel about sex and drugs and Berlin was discovered to contain chunks of text lifted from other writers’ work. Image via Wikipedia These cases [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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