Use illustrations to distract from your writing

Dear readers,

Springfields Horticultural Society, who originally commissioned by poem “Daffodils II: The Revenge” have further commissioned the wonderful MusaGrafica to illustrate the poem. Here it is...

(large version here)

All the best,

Joel

Judge a book by its cover

Dear readers,

Sometimes, terrible prose alone is not enough. Here are some invaluable resources for those of you wishing to get your writing the attention it deserves with a badly well designed cover:

http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.co.uk

and

http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk

All the best,

Joel

Emulate your heroes

Dear readers,

Apologies for my absence. On the upside, the How To Write Badly Well book is out in the next few weeks – details to follow. In the meantime, here is an article on one of the greatest practitioners of writing badly well that the world has ever known:

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/09/brilliantly-bad-books

(via Metafilter)

All the best,

Joel