Asterix and the golden jubilee
A preparatory sketch for Goscinny and Uderzo’s first book, Asterix the Gaul (1961). Photograph: Les Éditions Albert René / Goscinny-Uderzo The French…
Read moreMonth: October 2009
PW’s death knell?
Publishers Weekly really screws up: “Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped…
Read moreElusive plot
I’m chasing plot moths, dashing about in the dark swishing my net trying to catch the flittery things. I know roughly what…
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I’ve seen a handful of things in the last week that are worth blogging about. But I’m in Hild mode, so instead…
Read moredelicious dialogue
Over at Sterling Editing I have a new blog post up, a discussion of some of Patrick O’Brian’s masterful dialogue. There’s an…
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In the last month I’ve had 16,201 visits to Ask Nicola from 90 countries. That’s more visitors than usual: more than 6,000…
Read morevodka and The Marketing ‘Plan’
Want to know what it’s like to be a novelist these days? You sell the novel over a pleasant dinner (or an…
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