Terence Blacker

 

FROM THE INDEPENDENT

Cruel jokes are just a symptom

  At least we now know how, if you are a comedian whose career is becalmed, you can make yourself the centre of attention. You deploy one of the new swearwords. “Spaz” and “retard” are favourites and, as this week has, shown, “mong” can do the trick pretty well, too. Soon everyone will be talking... Read full article

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It’s all about timing: an author’s guide to the publishing calendar

I have a story which is about to go out to publishers. What better moment to post my recent Endpaper piece for The Author magazine, providing a useful cut-out-and-paste guide for authors? * After a while, experienced professional authors learn the importance of the calendar.  They learn that it is not so much which editor  to approach  with... Read full article