Archive for February, 2009
A little distraction
Early in the week I was happy to have some non-literary distraction delivered to me by one of my authors and sometime freelance photographer and designer, who designed all but one of the books in our mouthmark series, Inua Ellams. The task was simple – to create out of the multiplicities of randomness the web [...]
Thanks for the reading and the music
The other day I gave a talk on my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ to a group of teenagers at Plumstead Manor Girls School. One of the questions asked was what’s the best thing about having a book published? I thought good question and then realised it’s the simple joy of bumping into people who go [...]
Social networking: you rock my socks
I’ve been busy these past few months getting back into the habit of 9 to 5ness. Once you’ve had the taste of beat-life freedom, long coffees and days with nothing to do but ponder on the suitability of getting out of bed – it is hard to go back. But in these unstable times, sacrifices must be [...]
Updates, shmupdates…
Alright, alright. Papa Ayikwei’s throwing his weight around, and it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so here I am. I’m busy as usual, with lots of good things happening. I’ve recently refreshed http://www.jsamlarose.com, and while there’s still quite a bit of work to do before it feels like home, I feel much [...]
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
So, I arrived from a British Council-linked trip to India to find a press release about the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets. I’m very pleased about the awards for two reasons: 1) there is an award for both authors and publishers 2) I can’t help but feel that we contributed to the higher profile [...]
