by Caroline Deacon | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog
We’re off to the Canary Islands for a week, and as my bags sit waiting in the hall, full of suncream and fiction, I find myself thinking about travel writing books. We have a small shelf of guidebooks which we never look at these days because of course we look...
by Caroline Deacon | May 5, 2019 | Blog
An interesting article in the Guardian recently made me think about that advice you hear all the time – to be a successful writer, you should write every day. I’ve never found that works for me. I’ve done Nanowrimo a few times; this is where you try to write a...
by Caroline Deacon | Apr 14, 2019 | Blog
To celebrate the launch of my new super dooper look website, I thought I would re-visit my first ever blog, which was basically me musing about Edinburgh being chockablock with writers. I was sitting in Inverness at the time, working pretty much full time as a...
by Caroline Deacon | Feb 9, 2019 | Blog
I am not going to claim to be any expert on social media, but thought I would just share with you some of my ideas about managing social media without it affecting your writing time. Firstly I hardly ever post something spontaneous. All my tweets and posts for my...
by Caroline Deacon | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog
I do love books about writing. I’ve never picked one up and not found something that speaks to me. Maybe I’m just a terribly slow learner, and information falls out of my brain all the time which I have to keep stuffing it back in. But never mind my...
by Caroline Deacon | Dec 30, 2018 | Blog
When you’ve read more than eighty books in a year, narrowing down the best reads is quite a job, but I’ll give it a go. This year’s reading has brought home to me how writers are really pushing at genre boundaries. Now if you pick up a crime book, it...
