by Rhiannon Paine | Jun 5, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General
As I blog, tweet, and work on a synopsis for my novel Fall Crush, I wonder how writers in earlier ages would have fared with social media. Suppose Thomas Hardy had been required to pitch The Mayor of Casterbridge. “When Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter...
by Rhiannon | May 23, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun
Let’s find out if you qualify. Imagine you’re walking by a lake on a gorgeous summer morning, breathing in the mingled scents of lake water and fragrant fir trees, and then you come upon a canoe pulled up at a dock, and you think, “That canoe could have a body...
by Rhiannon | May 18, 2010 | Going Places, Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time (1973), in a galaxy far far away (Liverpool), I was invited to the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun by Allan Williams, “the man who gave away the Beatles.” “You must come,” he said, pressing a badge into my hand....
by Rhiannon | May 9, 2010 | General, It's a Mystery
“Wanted: Assistant Editor for two retail magazines,” read the ad in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was the mid-1970s, I was in my mid-twenties, and I figured that if a job involved putting words on paper, I could do it. But would the editor agree? It didn’t...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 8, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, Home Sweet Home
It’s the autumn of 1978 and I’ve just moved into a flat in Liverpool. A new friend is watching while I unpack my books. After sorting them by genre (novels, poetry, plays, biography, criticism, history), I start to alphabetize the fiction by the...
