Category: getting published

by MMB January 1, 2021

At the end of your tether with typos? Read this

I know from personal experience how tiresome and aggravating it is to pick up mistakes in something you’ve made afterContinue Reading

by MMB November 21, 2020

Ray Bradbury is regarded as the most famous and most celebrated writer of Science Fiction in the world. On JuneContinue Reading

by MMB August 25, 2020

Here’s news from one of the writers I admire – Jenny Lawson, who made me laugh long and loud atContinue Reading

by MMB August 14, 2020

What are my favourite authors doing next? My favourite authors have new works in the works, pardon the pun, soContinue Reading

by MMB January 6, 2020

We’re going backwards. Back to print. First there was print. Then came the Internet, and there was JavaScript. And pdfs.Continue Reading

by MMB December 14, 2019

Which Sci-Fi devotee is not looking forward to the debut of Star Trek: Picard? (Roll on, January 23, 2020!) IContinue Reading

by MMB October 30, 2019

A recent comment from an author on one of my book reviews got me thinking. I was pleased at theContinue Reading

by MMB February 8, 2019

Here is the fascinating first-hand exposé of how Julian Barnes wrote his first novel, Metroland, and got it published inContinue Reading

How do you know when you have written something worthwhile? What is your process? January 14, 2021
Dear Goran, In Issue #87 I wrote about my favourite line from the New Testament — “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained standing there in front of the tomb.” To me, this line seems to sum up, among other things, the process of songwriting. William Blake said ‘Jesus is the imagination’ and these words […] The post How do you know when you have written s […]
Molly Cairns

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) January 14, 2021
“Of course, the great thing about television is that it lets you see events live as they happen, like old movies from thirty years ago.” — Rock Hunter "I wanted to make a picture where I got a laugh faster than anyone else – I guess that's where it started,” said director Frank Tashlin, explaining the opening sequence to Will Success Spoil Rock Hud […]
Top 10 Title Sequences of 2020 (2020) December 27, 2020
The Best Title Sequences of 2020 It’s been a year like no other. A year when so many of us turned to screens to connect or, indeed, to disconnect; when we ached for a dollop of entertainment, a moment of escape or a dose of comfort, for something familiar or something completely new. This year, for Art of the Title’s seventh annual list of the year’s top 10 […]