The Earls Court Exhibition Centre is the home of LBF2013
London. Book. Fair. These three words I’ve been uttering non-stop for the past three weeks. When I arrived at Earls Court on Monday, 15 Apr 2013, I was thrilled with the variety: hundreds of pavilions and stands, thousands of shelves filled with books.… Read the rest
Dust Storm by LunarBlitz (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
When the Dust Settles
Just in case you were on holidays and missed it all, I’ll fill you in – Summer 2012 was rich on scandals in the book circles.… Read the rest
Red Primer for Children and Diplomats by Victor Vashi, 1967
Imagine a boy growing up in a totalitarian state where sexism, chauvinism, homophobia and general disrespect to human life and personal freedom were a norm. Imagine this boy growing up as a coward and a liar because he feared to tell others, even with his own parents and siblings, the only thing about himself he knew for sure: he was a girl on the inside.… Read the rest
READING A BOOK..By LUNARIX-PIX (source: www.flickr.com/photos/manueluna/4497531493)
Some people say that the best way to write a great story is to write a book you’d want to read yourself. Holden Caulfield, the troubled teenager from The Catcher In The Rye, thought about it in his unique way:
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
Your story needs to be interesting enough to make the reader to want more, it needs to transport the reader into the world he’d like to stay in for longer.… Read the rest
Time for a silly blog post (actually, it’s an experiment to test if I’m capable of writing just about anything).
You most certainly have Internet since you are here, maybe you also have a gigantic flat screen television, you can shoot pigs with Angry Birds on your phone and spread gossip on Facebook, flip through newspapers on iPad and watch a 3D zombie blockbuster splashing your popcorn all over.… Read the rest
A short story can tell a lot about the writer's calibre
I never quite understood why short stories and novellas sell less than novels.
Just think about it.
You are about to read something written by an unfamiliar author. Are you prepared to invest several days of your time into his or her novel?… Read the rest