Before we begin, a disclaimer: I don’t really believe in writer’s block. I think that what we call ‘writer’s block’ is really just ‘thinking time’. Everyone needs to leave ideas to ‘ferment’, which can hold you back from writing for a little while. Sometimes writing isn’t always writing actual words on a page. SometimesContinue reading “How to handle writer’s block”
Author Archives: Wren James
October favourites | Six Feet Under | The Fair Fight | Lumberjanes + Giveaway!
Previously: April | May | June | July | August | September It’s November! This week is the publication of The Next Together in Australia and my friend Alice Oseman’s e-novella This Winter! To celebrate, Alice and I are doing a giveaway of signed copies of our books . . . with a twist. Both books will be annotated byContinue reading “October favourites | Six Feet Under | The Fair Fight | Lumberjanes + Giveaway!”
A snapchat conversation between Kate and Matt
Happy release day in Australia! To celebrate, I wrote a short story in snapchat form over at Author Allsorts.Kate Finchley to Matt Galloway: Matt Galloway to Kate Finchley: Kate Finchley to Matt Galloway: Matt Galloway to Kate Finchley: Kate Finchley to Matt Galloway: Matt Galloway to Kate Finchley: Folios/v7/Time-landscape-2039/MS-149 Picture sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]Continue reading “A snapchat conversation between Kate and Matt”
Ten sinister horrors to stop you sleeping
It’s Halloween! Obviously that means it’s time to share some of my favourite creepy books with you. Hopefully there are some here you haven’t heard of before, as well as some old favourites. (Includes links to both Goodreads and the Book Depository.) Monsters by Emerald Fennell (Book Depository) A blackly comic tale about two children you wouldContinue reading “Ten sinister horrors to stop you sleeping”
Everything You Believe Is Wrong (or, why I thought I couldn’t be a writer)
So, I used to love writing as a kid. I wrote stories about my dogs (something I think every author does, as a kid. Right?). I wrote stories about my local park’s war memorial actually being a time machine space ship for vampire shapeshifter alien snakes (that old cliché, urgh). But when I was aboutContinue reading “Everything You Believe Is Wrong (or, why I thought I couldn’t be a writer)”
Behind the Book: Copyeditor Miranda Baker
Previously in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger | Scout |Translators | Book charity Today I’m talking to Miranda Baker, the copyeditor of The Next Together. Miranda was the person who made sure all of my tangled time travel-y storylines didn’t create any massive plotholes whichContinue reading “Behind the Book: Copyeditor Miranda Baker”
Behind the Book: Book Trust coordinator Katherine Webber
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor Today I’m talking to my friend Katie, who is not only the loveliest and most energetic person ever (you might have seen her running around at YALC in full Sailor Moon costume,Continue reading “Behind the Book: Book Trust coordinator Katherine Webber”
September favourites | Sense8 | Muji |Neopolitan Novels | Mad Max
Previously: April | May | June | July | August It’s October! Enjoy this final selection of non-autumn/PSL/hallowe’en related things before I inevitably fall for the Fall hype of tumblr this month. TV Series – Sense8 My friend Alice introduced me to this, and I watched the whole series in about two days. Honestly, if you asked me, IContinue reading “September favourites | Sense8 | Muji |Neopolitan Novels | Mad Max”
Writing the dreaded Second Novel
My next novel, THE LAST BEGINNING, is a sequel to THE NEXT TOGETHER, and comes out in Autumn 2016. I never even knew that THE NEXT TOGETHER would have a sequel until I wrote the last chapter. Then I suddenly realised that there was this whole other story I hadn’t told. I couldn’t bear toContinue reading “Writing the dreaded Second Novel”
Behind the Book: Translators Franca Fritz and Heinrich Koop
More in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager | Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor I have a very exciting interview this week! I’m talking to two of the foreign translators of The Next Together! Franca and Hein are a married couple who work together to translateContinue reading “Behind the Book: Translators Franca Fritz and Heinrich Koop”
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