BRIDGET WHELAN writer | for writers and readers….

For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for first hand experience, almost everything we knew was passed on by word of mouth…Books changed all that. Books, purchasable...

Agents take notice of the results of writing competitions and competition organisers often have strong links with agents.

I feel strongly that writing is more of an artisan activity than an intellectual one because you’re actually making something. I would feel closer to a basket maker, or a … Continue reading →

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper...