This week started really well, with the new issue of The Lifted Brow arriving in my mail box with my short memoir ‘Diamonds in the Red Alley’ in it about my childhood in the Soviet Union. http://theliftedbrow.myshopify.com/…/pr…/the-lifted-brow-30……
The writer laid bare
Re-connecting to writer’s voice in the cyberspace
In the autumn of 2008 I was approaching the fifth anniversary of my writer’s block. During those years I never stopped writing and sometimes even produced publishable works. However, writing had become much harder than it used to be and …
And recently these bookmarks arrived in my mail box… Now it feels more real that in August I’ll have my next book out.
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A super-talented surrealist artist from Queensland, Eric Morgan, decided to paint my portrait, as inspired by his reading of my memoir The Dangerous Bride. I am really moved by his response to my book. 
What you see here is …
Being a writer & an earner: an oxymoron? A Guest Post from Naomi Stekelenburg
“I don’t look poor, so everyone believes I’m wealthy,” my grandmother said to me one day. And it was true. She wore beautiful fabrics and her hair was always set. Chic, I think, would be a word you’d use to …
What I’ve been doing writing-wise lately
Six months after giving birth to my second child, blogging now feels just as exhilarating and subversive as sneaking out of the house after 6pm with a small handbag that contains no nappies. Ah, the extravagant (guilty) pleasures of early …