TIP FOR SEPTEMBER: FIND AWE
cindyphillips Tripping over translation, Chekhov’s Gun, and Other Things I Learned This Week Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more…
books
Come Away and Write: Why Your Next Writing Workshop Might Be in Kei Mouth
A workshop with a getaway attached I host small Workshop Getaways for Writers in Kei Mouth, designed for writers who want practical help with their writing but who would also…
THE FIRST-TIME AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION TO PUBLISHING
From Finished Manuscript to Published Book A first-time author’s guide to beta readers, literary agents and ISBNs If this is your first book, the publishing process can seem confusing because…
YOUR BOOK IS UNLIKELY TO BUY YOU A YACHT
In the life of any aspiring author, a book exists almost entirely in the author’s imagination. She’s been wasting time filling a folder full of images for cover ideas. Or…
ARE WE BEING GOOD ANCESTORS?
Margaret Fuller’s Birthday and a Chimpanzee An early morning on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in South Africa still smells of woodsmoke and Impepho trodden underfoot in the…
GEN JONES SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES
The MAY Newsletter: Somewhere between the collapse of attention spans, the rise of artificial intelligence, the return of world wars to the nightly news, and trying to remember why we…
MY BOT IS THE LOVECHILD OF HECTOR AND GYLES.
A Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device, FRED, has given me back my Fingerspitzengefühl, in this Room Of My Own. That is to say: it (not HE!) exists politely in my life…
There’s many a slip atwixt the bar room and the lecture hall
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, Jul 11, 2025 The Bar Room and the Lecture Hall “It is always nice to see you,” Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to…
GIGO, Predestiny, and the Work Ethic
from my Substack archives: Cindy Phillips, A skip through 10 July in history, 10 July 2025 I’m not playing the Rolling Stones today, but I might have a little dance…
Grandma’s Hand, and the lead up to Leda’s horny swan
from my Substack archives: 4 July 2025 / Topics in this post, for reader discretion: Poultry Porn, things that lead to a lede, and drunk texting in a Town and…