Time Management for the Optimistic |
I was pleased to discover, when I happened to be in Muswell Hill recently, that both my books are in stock in the excellent Muswell Hill Bookshop, but was amused that Catherine the Great was sh...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:33:00 PST |
THE LAST LAUGH - 1 |
Silvio Puggiotto cursed the fog that covered the lagoon, the airline that scheduled flights before dawn, his mother-in-law who had insisted on being taken to Marco Polo airport, the friend to whom he ...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:25:00 PST |
Frankfurt Book Fair |
Brilliant piece in today's Observer by Carole Cadwalladr re the Fair, the dreadfulness of contemporary publishing & the impossibility of being a writer. A must-read if you are one....
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:12:00 PST |
CATHERINE THE GREAT out in paperback |
I'm very pleased to report that my book Catherine the Great is now available in paperback. I may be (definitely am) biased, but it seems to me very good value at £6.39 from Amazon. Even th...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:49:00 PST |
"The Tyranny of the Bestseller" |
As yet another of my book proposals bites the dust ("intriguing, but we don't see how we'll be able to sell many copies"), I can do no better than quote from Fay Weldon's very apposite leade...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:32:00 PST |
Slightly snooty review |
Slightly snooty review of CATHERINE in the New York Sun - though Carl Rollyson does come down in my favour in the end. Read it here. (And he must have picked out the only 'must have' in th...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:18:00 PST |
Catherine the Great published in the US |
I'm delighted to report that the American edition of Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power.. is published today by St Martin's Press.It's already attracted some nice notices. The Library Jou...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:23:00 PST |
First attempts at belly-dancing! |
One of the things which has been keeping me cheerful recently, or at least fairly buoyant just after a class, is my weekly if I manage it class in eastern dancing, known vulgarly as belly-dancing....
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:08:00 PST |
Do you have to be tall to be a writer? |
One of the reasons why my confidence sometimes fails me at literary events is that I'm not tall enough. Neither do I have the kind of penetrating voice that cuts through the background nois...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:58:00 PST |
Some of the logistics of being a writer |
The worst thing well-meaning friends, who know nothing about the workings of the book industry, can say to a mid-list author is 'How's the book going?' What they mean is 'How is your most recent...
Posted by Virginia Rounding on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:11:00 PST |
