Mark Charan Newton

I’ll be at Fantasycon this weekend. I’m on a panel on Sunday at 10-10.45am entitled “New kids on the block”, which I’ll assume has everything to do with the boyband. Watch out for as many song references as possible if you’re there. Other than that, by schedule is as follows: Friday-Sunday: “Bar” I’ll also be [...]

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I do words, but I think pictures do this pub more justice. Share:

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It’s easy to see how it happens, how some writers become divas. And you know the ones I mean. (I’m not pointing out names here. Hell, my ex girlfriends would probably say I’m a diva before I became a writer.) So you put your book out there, and people talk about it. That’s cool. People [...]

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Or at least, not until I became one, anyway. These are just some casual observations. 1. You pretty much kiss goodbye to your social life. You have deadlines and you need to hit them. Doesn’t matter how long it took you to write the first book, you have a contract to fulfill, which means not [...]

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There are some things which, as a writer, you look forward to. Your book coming out. Page proofs arriving. Seeing the cover art for the first time. More important is the publisher party. Last night was the Pan Macmillan sales conference, where the great and good of that publisher were gathered under one roof at [...]

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… could you email me again? I had a slight “incident” with my MacBook and a moderately priced Chardonnay, and it’s out of action for at least two weeks if not forever. So until I get myself sorted, and continue to work on a steampunk-esque iBook, could you possibly resend your email? Share:

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