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Continue reading →: First draft: complete!
Joy, pride, relief, disbelief, sadness, emptiness… I’d forgotten what it feels like to finish a first draft. There’s a moment when your brain switches from “what’s next?” to “oh, I’m finished.” It’s anticlimactic. It’s strange. And then the emotions kick in. This story has been gestating for so long it…
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Continue reading →: The Guardian Legend Self-Published Rights Grab of the Month
UK newspaper The Guardian in conjunction with Legend Times has announced a new monthly literary prize for self-published authors. On the face of it this is great news. Finally some recognition of quality writing outside the world of traditional publishing. It could be a great way to throw off that invisibility cloak. But as…
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Continue reading →: The perils of writing in public
At the moment, when I’m not working on a freelance job, I’m outlining and/or writing and/or procrastinating in a variety of locations across Cambridge. I try to keep my destinations random, not turning up at the same places on the same days each week. It’s harder than it seems: habits…
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Continue reading →: Back matters
Beside one of my bookcases lies the Pile of the Unread, from which I pluck the next book to devour (yes, I still read dead trees). I don’t chomp through them nearly quickly enough. I’ve just finished one, Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson, that’s been in the pile for a…
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Continue reading →: One hundred days
As an experiment, for the last 100 days I’ve written every day. No matter how full the hours, I’ve found some time. I’ve been trying to discover if the “write every day” mantra works: whether the writing flows more easily, whether it instills a new discipline. In those 100 days…
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I write queer fiction, full of humour and heart, across various genres
Anthony Camber 