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Jo Derrick Fiction: July 2015
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Welcome to my blog! Saturday, 25 July 2015. The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part Two. Saturday kicked off with a cracking interview between Ann Cleeves and Lisa Gardner. The day before Mary Jane Riley had assured me that I’d enjoy Lisa’s writing. I certainly enjoyed listening to her speak about her research and her novels. Lisa has over twenty-two million books in print (imagine that! 8220;Are you booking for next year? 8221; I asked. She told me that while relaxing in ...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part One
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Welcome to my blog! Thursday, 23 July 2015. The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part One. The Old Swan, Harrogate. Fast paced, intense and addictive. No, I’m not talking about the work of Patricia Highsmith nor the latest novel by Eva Dolan, but The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. If I’ve been to any more in between, then my memories of them are hazy, to say the least. We all trooped in to The Morality of Murder panel at 3.30pm (Belinda Baue...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part Two
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Welcome to my blog! Saturday, 25 July 2015. The 2015 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate Part Two. Saturday kicked off with a cracking interview between Ann Cleeves and Lisa Gardner. The day before Mary Jane Riley had assured me that I’d enjoy Lisa’s writing. I certainly enjoyed listening to her speak about her research and her novels. Lisa has over twenty-two million books in print (imagine that! 8220;Are you booking for next year? 8221; I asked. She told me that while relaxing in ...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: March 2011
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Welcome to my blog! Friday, 25 March 2011. This story was first published (under my first married name of Jo Good) in Issue 3 of Upstart! Magazine in Summer 1998. The issue was edited by Carol Barac and Marilyn Ricci. The idea for the story came from an exercise at a poetry writing workshop in Milton Keynes. We had to pick two words from a list and put them together. My words were ‘slipper’ and ‘tree’. I have an idea. It doesn’t matter. I start to bring slippers every day. Once the first branch is co...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: March 2015
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Welcome to my blog! Thursday, 12 March 2015. Band Project Update/Feeling Demoralised. It hasn't been a good week writing-wise. I had a rejection on Monday from Woman's Weekly. Saying the story had a 'well-worn theme'. I was an 'also read' in last Saturday's Write Invite, which means my story was in the bottom three (this was a 'band themed' story based on Jack Savoretti). Then I had another rejection today, this time from The People's Friend. The funny thing is that I'd almost forgotten that I now have 3...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: November 2014
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Welcome to my blog! Thursday, 20 November 2014. In A Foreign Field. Talking of World War 1, did anyone see the wonderful programme about the poets of the Somme last week? Our English teacher made us study them for 'O' Level and I was so glad he did. The programme has made me want to revisit the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, as well as acquainting myself with other poets of the time like David Jones and W N Hodgson. Saturday, 8 November 2014. From Autumn to Winter. I was enc...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: August 2014
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Welcome to my blog! Friday, 15 August 2014. It didn't hold my interest from beginning to end and I admit I skim read the boxing scenes (don't ask). However, I was determined to finish it, as Lynda La Plante tweeted me, asking me to tell her what I thought of it. She will now never tweet me again. I can't help but be honest. A few weeks ago I noticed a book I'd been dying to read was on sale on amazon for £1.75. Bargain! And don't tell me to read books on my Kindle. It's just not the same! Linda's Sh...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: October 2014
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Welcome to my blog! Sunday, 19 October 2014. It has been a slightly more productive week on the writing front, thank goodness. I skived off for lunch out with some ex-teaching colleagues on Wednesday, had to have a filling at the dentist on Tuesday and did some manic kitchen cleaning on Thursday in preparation for my aunt's visit in a week's time. I started a new story with Woman's Weekly. This is one market I haven't yet managed to crack. Alison emailed me to say:. Many thanks for sending us your short ...
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Jo Derrick Fiction: Band Project Update/Feeling Demoralised
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Welcome to my blog! Thursday, 12 March 2015. Band Project Update/Feeling Demoralised. It hasn't been a good week writing-wise. I had a rejection on Monday from Woman's Weekly. Saying the story had a 'well-worn theme'. I was an 'also read' in last Saturday's Write Invite, which means my story was in the bottom three (this was a 'band themed' story based on Jack Savoretti). Then I had another rejection today, this time from The People's Friend. The funny thing is that I'd almost forgotten that I now have 3...