Today is the last-ever Eve’s Salmagundi Club… there are tears and a few laughs, too… and we’re going out with a Nicola Morgan-inspired bang… Eve’s fans need not fret – she’ll be back in the …
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Me & You & Mary Sue
Do you know what a “Mary Sue” character is? In today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club, we’re investigating this strange phenomenon that owes its origin to fan fiction, but has now gone thoroughly mainstream with the Twilight …
Read more »Live From The Canarian Islands
Eve’s Salmagundi Club comes to us live and direct from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, where it’s an impressive 90 degrees (London is shivering in damp grey mist). But doesn’t the eternal sunshine of paradise …
Read more »It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Who You Know Knows
Monday’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club features an insightful straw poll that sheds some light on the myth (or is it?) that it’s incredibly hard to get a book published without having prior connections within the industry. …
Read more »A Thousand Words
If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words (and the case has not been conclusively proven either for or against) then what are we to make of the current Flash Fiction contest …
Read more »The Myth of Sacred Writing Time
Today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club looks at “The Myth of Sacred Writing Time” – defined as “the belief that in order to seriously pursue your writing it’s necessary to carve out an IDEAL time, place and …
Read more »Writers’ Retreat or Writers Retreating?
Today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club is looking at writers’ retreats – are they a fountain of inspiration for the harried writer – or a just a distracting fantasy? And speaking of holidays, Peter is away for …
Read more »The Way We Used To Be
Happy Labor Day to all our American listeners! Today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club kicks back a little and looks at the the way the publishing industry used to be – when London and New York were …
Read more »Stop Thief!
How can you stop people stealing your great ideas? That’s the sujet-du-jour for today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club.
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All The Fun of the Fair
The world’s largest public celebration of the written word has just kicked off - the Edinburgh International Book Festival is open from now until the end of the month, with over 700 events packed into …
Read more »And So, My Fellow Litopians…
Eve’s Salmagundi Club continues for an unprecedented second day, as we carry on our discussion of what Litopia can offer the aspiring writer. And by the way – isn’t Eve looking good these days?
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What Have You Done For Me Lately, Litopia?
A post inside the Colony prompts today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club – unusually introspective, because instead of looking at other writing-related websites on the net, we’re examining our own. What is the point of communities such …
Read more »Yank!
The widespread concern over authors’ involvement with their jacket cover design – or rather, with their lack of involvement – continues to reverberate round the ‘net. On today’s Eve’s Salmagundi Club, we take the debate …
Read more »Holden Caulfield’s Revenge
Concluding our insider’s guide to “those other” pages in a book – the ones that authors don’t write – we’re looking at dedications, prefaces, introductions, footnotes, indices and appendices. Phew!
In today’s Write Report, Donna reveals …
The Gorilla That is Amazon Becomes A Publisher
Continuing our insider’s guide to “those other” pages in a book – the ones that authors don’t write – what can your learn (professionally) from the table of contents and the acknowledgements? A heck of …
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