As I prepare for todays talk at SOAS LGBT Society in London. Something that I am half excited, half nervous about, I was going to share such nonsensical fears, but then I thought that would be rather silly. Instead I thought I’d give a run-down of five other bloggers who wanted to talk about Bastardography. […]
Grindstone
It has been nearly a month since the DFG and Zitebooks launch, and whilst it was easy to bask in the reflected glory of the birth and release of my novel, and the follow up trip to Los Angeles to discuss options to take it to the small screen, now, in the heat of Hounslow […]
Cards and Memories
Memories can be brought to life by the simplest of things. I am looking at my Easter cards. And my Mothers’ Day ones. And my Christmas ones. Will keep them up for a while. I like to keep lots of cards up for ages. Some forever… Some even get framed. I was about to say that I have […]
Swearing Blind
A friend last week sent a card featuring Jane Austen with her publisher who is saying “We like the plot Miss Austen, but the effing and blinding has to go.” I’d seen the card before but was struck by Cilla’s comment that the card seemed somehow apt for me. I have been slightly worried that the opening chapter of […]
Juggling the Acts
I am currently in the midsts of getting the last props, sounds and costumes ready for a play that I am doing at the end of the week. It’s a 3-night run of a play called Jennifer’s Robot Arm by Paul Vickers. It’s a bit silly and fun, and although it can be knackering, stressful and […]
10 Great Tracks that inspired Bastardography
During the writing of B (lets just call it B, you know I’m talking about Bastardography when I say B, yeah?) the inspiration to keep focused and to keep writing about difficult personal experiences often came from songs. I thought I’d share them with you in no particular order, although I would say some tracks […]
Zitebooks: London Book Launch
The first Zitebooks Book Launch took place at the Yahoo! offices in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue on Thursday March 19th, and was attended by around 125 media punters and friends. The occasion focused specifically on Jacquie Lawrence’s debut novel ‘Different for Girls’, a book recently described in the same breath as both a ‘Lesbian Bonkbuster’ and […]
The first account of a man living with Borderline Personality Disorder?
I kept deleting the word ‘gay’ before man in the title of this blog. The reason being, is that I can’t remember seeing a book anywhere about a man’s experience of BPD, let alone gay, and although being gay myself, and I would’ve found it, possibly, more helpful to have read a gay mans experience, […]
Keeping An Eye On The Charts
Two weeks since ‘Knowledge Waits’ was published and sales seem, according to the Guru Godleman, to be moving along well enough. So why do I feel that by now it ought to be in the charts that appear in the quality papers every weekend? The comments and reviews that have appeared on Facebook and Amazon […]
Where Do Stories Come From?
Where do stories come from? Two things happened recently, which reinforced ideas which have been hovering for years. The first was in an interview with the author of Mary Poppins (another Pamela!) when she said that Mary Poppins just came in her window. An actual apparition or an idea? It doesn’t matter. It simply echoes […]
Getting Your Novel On Film And TV
I went to LA for the weekend. I say that with the same authority that people say, ‘I went to Newcastle for the weekend.’ But Newcastle isn’t LA. I should know because I grew up there. Even with East Coast Mainline (now Virgin) and their uncanny ability to actually extend the travel time between Kings Cross and Newcastle […]
Writing to Order? Nope.
When I was in a coffee shop with my friend a couple of days after the recent Zitebooks launch, she said, ‘Why don’t you write a story about a café?’ People who know I write always say that kind of thing. ‘Why don’t you write about sitting on the train station when the train is […]
The Eyebrows and The Nails
I never cease to be amazed. Stunned. By what I call the eyebrows. And the nails. I was watching a harrowing tale on the news about a young woman who had had the family house razed to the ground through the employment of a ‘dodgy’ builder. She was paying rent for somewhere for her, her husband, and […]
Where Have All The Lesbians Gone?
Jacquie Lawrence BBC Radio Scotland interview with Kaye Adams, 26th March 2015 Jacquie was on BBC Radio Scotland on Thursday 26th March 2015 on the Kaye Adams show, discussing her part in the BFI Flare Debate about the diminishing role of lesbian characters in film and on TV.
Before The Launch…
Jacquie Lawrence’s book launch at the Yahoo! Offices in Soho on March 19th 2015 was an amazing event. Hear Jacquie talk about her nerves before the launch kicked off…
One Week On
So, ‘Knowledge Waits’ was finally released last week and the company launch took place in London where my consumption of red wine was quite enough to liven me up, but not quite excessive enough to prevent me catching the train back home from Paddington. So how does it feel to have a novel ‘out there’? Well, […]
‘1909’ and Gender Bias
One of the more bizarre aspects of gender bias is that the more its study becomes pertinent to the modern world, the less people seem to study it. It’s not unlike disappointment at your favourite indie band suddenly achieving fame, and your interest in them waning as they become everyone’s favourite tipple. I wrote 1909 in […]
Five unusual marketing methods for a new book
They say only 50% percent of advertising works, but they don’t know which 50% – a nifty little phrase, but it doesn’t help when it comes to getting your book out there. You’ve got to have some ingenuity when it comes to people buying your e-book. Here are five methods I may (or may not […]
All Too Real!
BELIEVE IT OR NOT… the grass is actually greener in your world in 2015. In the world of 1909, 776 years in the future, there are no animals, no God and, well, no future. At least, only 1909 years of it. You see they’re counting years backwards now. And there’s nothing you can do about […]
A Pinch of Notoriety Will Do
When the book went live on Monday it didn’t quite sink in. It had been talked about so much, prepared, drafted, redrafted and then proofed (and sort of proofed again) that when I told my little Facebook Page that Amazon took 8 hours for the book to go live, I was shocked that a message […]
Limbo
It’s been just over 24 hours since my e-book went live. The initial responses have been mostly positive. One or two comments of ‘could’ve used a spell-check’ irked me, as we’d been over the text with a fine tooth-comb, but heigh ho, it’s good that it can be updated again, no book is ever truly […]
Five things to worry about when publishing your memoir
Today the first thing I’ve written with a serious intent is being published. That means anybody can get their eyes and smear them across my words! This is an exciting prospect, it’s been worked on for two years and been rewritten and proofed to a professional standard, and if I do say so myself, I […]