by Alison Shakspeare | 8 May 2014 | News
Look out for Mere Kaffir by self-publisher Keith Brown. It was a privilege to work on such a personal project dealing with such a visceral topic. In the early 1980s a naive young English miner uproots himself and his new wife from the Nottingham coal mines to unearth... by Alison Shakspeare | 6 Aug 2013 | Tip
I was helping a client format some documents in which they were advising on speech making. One phrase stuck out, to read aloud before declaring the speech done and ready to deliver. It reminded me that this is very useful advice to any writer, even if you aren’t...