Notes from the Slushpile is a team blog maintained by eight friends who also happen to be children's authors at different stages of the publishing journey.
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Tuesday 11 December 2012
1st Day of Christmas - Katy Wyton, Writer Wrangler extraordinaire
A complaint (in verse)
Writer Wrangler (N): someone who has voluntarily, or involuntarily, come into possession of a writer.
Please remember that a Writer is for life, not just for Christmas.
(Although if you put enough shiny baubles on the tree, it will distract them long enough for you to scoff all the mince pies.)
Monday 10 December 2012
Reinventing the Bookshop for the Future of the Book
That Newsweek cover. |
But you know what? Getting a Kindle made me realize how much we need bookshops.
Yes the buying process is a doddle. But I only had to walk into my local Waterstones on Islington High Street to realize that shopping on a Kindle is a limited experience.