The grindstone
Millrace’s occasional diary…
November 2007
Many thanks to the Millrace readers who introduced themselves at the International Mountaineering Literature Festival in Kendal. It’s good to be able to put faces to names. Good, too, to hear that festival organiser Terry Gifford entertained the audience with an extract from a Millrace book: Ronald Turnbull’s new biography of Ben Macdui, The Life and Times of the Black Pig. Ronald has just been given an Outdoor Writers Guild Award for Excellence — congratulations!
Colin Brash, illustrator of The Life and Times of the Black Pig, is interviewed in the second issue of our newsletter Penstock [click here to read]. Also in this issue: Harry Cripps reflects on the demands of sharing home and office with an independent publisher [click here to read] and Graham Wilson casts a jaundiced eye on the inexorable rise (to the top shelf?) of rock mags [click here to read].
Graham will be giving a talk on the brand new edition of his first book, Macc & the Art of Long Distance Walking this month. It will take place at outdoor shop CampFour’s great new premises in Macclesfield on Tuesday 27 November. Email info@campfour.co.uk for details.
Finally — in (the very likely) case I don’t get round to writing a December Grindstone – very best wishes for Christmas and the new year.