Now that I’ve written the bare bones of twelve books, every publisher and their granny have announced their intention to accept manuscript submissions from un-agented newbies. Well, maybe not all of them. But a few.
Continue reading “Opportunities for Writers”
Every month The Rogue Verbumancer posts a photo on his blog and demands the people of the internet write a short story about it, posting links to every entry at the end of the month for all to see. He calls it the Pictonaut Challenge and you can join in too, if you like, for it is open to all. This is my one for January.
Continue reading “The Reliquary”
Another day, another hare brained scheme! Today on 12 books, the ‘do a creative thing in a short space of time’ mantra strikes again, this time in the format of 28 Drawings Later – a project begun by artist Victoria Evans last year. She wants YOU to draw something every day in February and upload it to Facebook in a constantly evolving digital art exhibition. I asked her why.
Continue reading “28 Drawings Later – Interview with Victoria Evans”
Aurora Cacciapuoti is a Sardinian illustrator currently based in Cambridge. She splits her time between running art workshops and working as a freelance illustrator. Whilst I was writing 12 books last year (or 1,667 words a day) she was drawing 365 faces (or 1 face a day). You can see them all on her tumblr page.
This year Aurora has a new project, to create 52+2 book covers. I asked her a few questions about what she finds inspiring about books.
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Look, a twelve books twin! It’s like when you go to a foreign country and there’s a town that has the same name as yours…
Canadian writerer Sandra O’Driscoll started her 12 books project last June. The more mathematically minded of you will be able to work out that means she is still going. And that means as I tail off and start blethering about other things, there is still someone on the internet whose brain is slowly melting from all the words they have to do. Hooray!
At 2.29am this morning I finished the 13 page comic which serves as December’s book. The plot is a bit thin, but some of the drawings are nice.
I am still a bit shell shocked, but happy. I’ll be back in the New Year with some reflections and the like, and some information on stage two of the 12 books project. See you then!
12 Books in 12 Months 