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Rejection – it’s not something anyone finds fun. And in the world of book publishing, there’s a lot of rejection to be had. Writers’ submissions are turned down by agents; agents’ submissions are turned down by publishers; books which do make it out into the market may get a frosty reception from reviewers and readers generally. . .
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A group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island form a commune and survive by engaging in a Marxist dialectic. They decry adults as bourgeois imperialists, and a pig-hunting expedition ends with them all deciding to become vegans…
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As anyone who reads the papers, watches the news or frequents social media will know, there’s been a lot of hype about Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir, Spare – which is hardly surprising of course. Some of the more recent speculation has focused on the Prince’s ghostwriter, the Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, memoirist and novelist, JR Moehringer. As someone working in the publishing industry and a ghostwriter myself, I’ve been following it all with interest and at times, a kind of horrified fascination.
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Looking through the papers last weekend, my eye was caught by the heading of an article in The Sunday Times’ Culture magazine: ‘TV presenter Jay Blades says: “I’ve written my memoir; now I’m going to read it.”’ Read more “The most interesting stories of all . .”
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I haven’t contributed to this blog for quite some time, having taken a complete break from all things work-related to help care for my much-loved father, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness in the early summer of last year. Dad, 86, died at the end of November after a difficult time, particularly in the final few months. We cared for him at my parents’ home for as long as possible, before he had to be moved for palliative treatment to a nearby care home, where he spent the last six days of his life. Fortunately we were able to spend much of that last week by his side, and were with him when he died.