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Blog posts by Simon Jay

Belfast and Beyond ‘Writing’

3-Nov-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

I’ve always wanted to go to Northern Ireland. I find the accent sexy. Guys with a real Belfast accent – that clipped, fast, adenoidal and charmingly aggressive burr – gets my motor running. So it was no accident that I was taken to a city as aphrodisiac to rewrite and reproof Bastardography. The Editor and […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Writing, Zite News Tagged With: belfast, interest, news, travel, writing

First Creative to Help Expand Bastardography

28-Apr-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

I resisted to write a title like ‘Creative helps to the Max’, or ‘Maximum Creativity’ because that would be too cringe-worthy for words, although ‘First Creative to Help Expand Bastardography’ is simultaneously too cryptic, too vague and too obvious to be of much use to anyone. Anyway, this blog is about the fact that actor […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Opinion, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: bastardography, collaboration, creativity

Would You Ever Want to Read a Patchwork Book?

24-Apr-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

In the writing of a book, lots can change. My original idea for the book was that it would be a collage, a patchwork memoir, that didn’t follow a narrative line; luckily my publisher talked me out of it, because I think people would not have responded well to it. Although perhaps the idea could […]

Filed Under: Getting Published, Marketing, Opinion, Uncategorized, Writing, Zite News Tagged With: art, bastardography, borderline, collage, creative, deleted, introductions, original, preface, queer

Creativity, Innovation and Participation

23-Apr-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

One of the most exciting things about having written a ‘book’ as it’s a great springboard for adaptation. I was going to cite Douglas Adam’s whose Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy spawned radio, television, film, game, stage, comic-book and tea-towel variations although I think the radio version came before the book? Anyway, a book you […]

Filed Under: Getting Published, Marketing, Opinion, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: beauty, brilliance, creativity, innovation, LGBT, love, social media, writing

Mr Jay goes to SOAS

22-Apr-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

I’m sitting here a little overwhelmed. This afternoon I gave my first book reading proper. I’ve been ‘on the bill’ for one or two open-mic gigs which went down rather well. But this was my first on my own. It was a bijou affair on the fourth floor of The School of Oriental and African […]

Filed Under: Getting Published, Marketing, Opinion, Uncategorized, Writing, Zite News Tagged With: book, book reading, books, gay, learning, LGBT, mental health, oratory, talking, uni

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