It’s been a funny six months since I got my literary agent. Time seems to have slowed down, or is passing in larger chunks, I’m not sure which. I no longer speak about the process of writing in weeks, but in months, or years even. At a micro-level, things are happening. My first novel hasContinueContinue reading “That difficult second album”
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What I learned about pitching at the London Book Fair
Being ready can take a long time I started writing The PTA Assassin two and a half years ago. When it was done, I followed up with the first edit. Then a second one. Then a massive third edit took place last year when I paid someone professional to look at it. Since then it’sContinueContinue reading “What I learned about pitching at the London Book Fair”
Conformity
The brilliant Matt Haig posted on Twitter yesterday. Anyone who follows him will know this is hardly unusual, but this particular tweet stood up, grabbed the microphone and shouted ‘Faye! I’m talking to YOU.’ Deep, huh? It immediately made me think about the past few years, of moving country and returning to London, and ofContinueContinue reading “Conformity”
The one about winning.
Last month, I wrote about failure at some length on my business blog. I’m a big fan of failure. HUGE fan. I’ve done a lot of improv comedy in the past five years and it’s not something you can enjoy or get good at without accepting that you’re going to have some unfeasibly bad moments,ContinueContinue reading “The one about winning.”