I’m preparing for my forthcoming reading at the University of Teesside this Wednesday, 23rd May, at 1pm. I’ll be reading from “Death of the Elver Man” and using a couple of extracts to illustrate how real events in my life have inspired some of the action in the book. I hope to include a sneak […]
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Reading this week
Posted by Jennie Finch on May 21, 2012
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Readings in the summer
News of two readings coming up. On May 23rd I will be appearing as part of Teesside University’s Creative Arts Week. This is a lunch time appearance, 1pm. Exact venue to follow! On Wednesday 20th June I am appearing as part of the Middlesbrough Literary Festival, sharing the stage with Danielle Ramsey and Val Laws, […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on April 20, 2012
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Starlings!
The Somerset Levels, and Shapwick in particular, are probably most famous for the extraordinary displays of birds. During the winter, and into spring, huge flocks of starlings gather at dusk and dawn and seem to perform astonishing aerial displays. This wonderful sight has been captured by photographers and film makers for those of us who […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on April 6, 2012
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What goes around…
Listening to the budget yesterday, I was struck by how familiar much of it seemed. After a depressing hour or so I returned to “The Drowners“, and realized why this might be. The world around us is much closer to the decade of greed in the 80s than many would admit. The characters from “Death […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on March 22, 2012
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A really good week
Yes, last week was remarkably good on the writing front. I discovered I had sold my first copies of “Death of the Elver Man” in the USA, on the Kindle platform. Then I was asked to speak at the Middlesbrough Literary Festival in June. Watch this space for details of date and time closer to […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on March 13, 2012
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Time for some housekeeping
I’m getting to the end of my latest student group and it is time to peer with bleary eyes over the mounds of papers, course books and forms and wonder where my writing space has gone. I am horribly untidy unless I keep a very tight grip on things – possibly something to do with […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on March 2, 2012
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Still juggling
My Achilles heel strikes again – issues with the time line. So many threads running through this new book and I’ve gone back to lay them out properly in a plan. This, of course, I should have done (and meant to do) right at the very start. Well, it’s fairly well sorted now and suddenly […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 28, 2012
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That time of year again…
It’s the middle of February, unseasonally warm up here and I find myself back at my computer after I’ve already finished my words for the day, after all my research is done and printed, waiting for tomorrow – here I am. Suddenly the story grabs me and I can’t leave it. Not tonight, not just […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 20, 2012
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Squibbing
The Carnival (always with a capital letter in Somerset) and squibbing are both major events in the town of Bridgwater and really do have to be seen to be believed. Anyone curious about squibbing might like to watch this video: for a taste of what it is like. The noise of the crowd and the […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 16, 2012
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Moving on…
Poor old Alex is having a bit of a hard time…. Strange goings-on out on the Levels are unsettling her friends and clients and seem connected to new problems amongst the young men “with their hard eyes and crude letters tattooed on their knuckles, their suspicions and the scorn with which they treated this, their […]
Posted by Jennie Finch on February 12, 2012
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