Super Swanwick
Forget Super Saturday or Super Sunday. I've just got back from Super Swanwick, the annual Writers' School in the heart of Derbyshire, where I return year after year to meet old friends and new, learn new things, share tips and enjoy Britain's craziest live entertainment. My highlights for this year were... 1. Running into Ingrid from the National Gallery/Liars' League prize, and subsequently running a pop-up film showing of both our stories being performed at the National Gallery. 2. Steve Hartley's 4-part course on the Psychology of Characters. If you have to ask what "knicker net.com" might be, you clearly weren't there! 3. The fancy dress disco, for which I dressed as Jasper Fforde's literary detective, Thursday Next. Yes, that's THURSDAY NEXT I'm dressed as. Surprised how many people hadn't a clue, when there were at least three Thursday Next novels lying around the conference centre. True fans we will pleased to know that I t...