What's Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop created by Jaime Morrow and Erin L. Funk as a way for writers and readers to stay in touch! What I'm Reading Last week I read The Undressed by Jemma L. King which is an amazing poetry collection inspired by a collection of antique nude photographs of women. King assigned a name and a poem to each photograph and brought these women to life - it's a fantastic collection, and I highly recommend it even if you don't read poetry. I very rarely read poetry for fun (though it's something I need to read more of) but The Undressed is probably one of my favourite books of the year. What I'm Writing I'm still working on my portfolio and starting to panic HUGELY now that the deadline is getting closer and closer. What Inspires Me Right Now To be honest right now I'm in need of some inspiration - I need to get this portfolio done! What Else I've Been Up To I've actually been pretty busy - last week I did an internship with Parthian, an independent publisher in South Wales, which is why I didn't have the time to write a What's Up Wednesday post last Wednesday. It was a lot of fun - the people in the office were really lovely - and it was fun to see the kind of processes that go into getting books published. I've also been applying for jobs and all that jazz, but right now I'm just trying to concentrate on getting my portfolio done! I've also been feeling super nostalgic recently. Who else watched this when they were younger?
What's Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop created by Jaime Morrow and Erin L. Funk as a way for writers and readers to stay in touch! What I'm Reading Right now I'm working my way through Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson, which is a YA retelling of the Bluebeard myth set in 19th century Mississippi. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it yet; I'm enjoying it enough to carry on reading, but I feel as though the Bluebeard figure in the story is so obviously dodgy that the heroine should be pretty suspicious of him from the get-go. What I'm Writing This week I've done very little work on my WIP, aside from editing the very first scene (which I'm still not 100% happy with), because both of my seminars this week have been focused on presentation. Yesterday I had to read aloud an extract from my WIP as though it were a performance, so I spent all of Monday editing my prologue, and tomorrow I have to give a 10-15 minute presentation about the inspiration behind my WIP, its influences and how it fits into the wider world, so today I'm busy working on that! What Inspires Me Right Now History and Historical Fiction as a whole. Pretty broad, I know, but I'm talking a lot about the role of history and Historical Fiction in my presentation, and this Friday I'll be talking about why writers write Historical Fiction in a blog post. What Else I've Been Up To A couple of days ago I confirmed my second publishing internship for over the summer - in late July I'll be joining the lovely people at Parthian in their Editorial and Marketing office, so that's exciting!
