January brings a boost for published writers, in the form of our PLR statements. Public Lending Right is the scheme by which, every time you borrow a book from a library, the author(s) of that book get paid just over 6p. Not much, but when you’re talking several thousand loans a year, it adds up. […]
Hooray for libraries
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 19 January 2012 0
Short vs Long
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 7 January 2012 0
I’m currently trying to write a short story. This is the first time I’ve done this in nearly six months and the last time I tried it was the same story. From this you may deduce that things are not going as well as one might hope. It’s a truism that writing novels and short […]
On the Fourth Day of Christmas (or thereabouts)
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 28 December 2011 0
Remember those pens … ? The ones I referred to a couple of weeks back? Well, I still haven’t got around to buying them. I will though. I don’t know how your Festering Season is progressing (well, one hopes), but my week’s non-hectic schedule includes watching/reading some carefully hoarded DVDs/books, a list of ‘not exactly […]
Book Review
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 20 December 2011 0
The Unsilent Library: essays on the Russell T Davies Era of New Dcotor Who I don’t read a lot of critical writing. Perhaps that’s due to having literary criticism forced upon me at college, or maybe I’m just lazy, but it’s a lack I’d rather like to remedy, and this book – slender, and dealing […]
Any colour, as long as it’s black
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 11 December 2011 5
Being the first in an occasional series of musings upon the tools of a writer’s trade, both physical and intellectual. Other writers and interested parties, please feel free to tell me your thoughts on any of these posts … Some writers collect pens. They have special pens for special projects, or find they can only […]
Deliverance
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 1 December 2011 0
Queen of Nowhere has been delivered unto my editor. I’m experiencing the usual emotions: relief, trepidation, satisfaction, inadequacy, unfocused panic. I’ve also realised that it’s December; I’m sure there’s stuff I need to do in December.
Signing! This Saturday!
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 23 November 2011 7
If you’re in central London this Saturday (the 26th), drop into Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue between 1pm and 2pm, and you can find me signing copies of Solaris Rising, along with Pat Cadigan, Alistair Reynolds, Lavie Tidvar, Tricia Sullivan, Eric Brown, Ian Whates and Dave Hutchinson. We’ll probably go down the pub afterwards.
The truth can now be revealed …
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 15 November 2011 12
… although some of you know already. For those that don’t: the committee of Novacon 42 have invited me to be their Guest of Honour next year. It would be accurate to describe my response to this as dead chuffed, not least because I have fond memories of attending Novacon as a fan back in […]
Solaris Rising
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 8 November 2011 0
I’ve just got my copy of the new SF anthology Solaris Rising, which is one of the two things which have illuminated an otherwise rather dark week. (The other thing is, as they say, sekrit, but watch this space for an announcement after the official one is made on Sunday.) Quite aside from the warm […]
Well beta’d up
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 30 October 2011 0
Yesterday I despatched of the final part of Queen of Nowhere to my beta-readers. Hullo real world. Right now I hate the book, mainly because I feel that it’s an opportunity wasted. I could have done proper justice to my original idea if only I’d had the time and the scientific background and the, er, […]