Sunday, 28 February 2010 In My Mailbox 5 This week the absolutely lovely people at Penguin sent me four new books. One of them had me jumping up and down in excitement. Not that the other don’t look like great reads, but The Extraordinary Secret of April, May and June is the new novel by […]

Friday, 26 February 2010 The Week Yeah, I really need to get a better title for this weekly, round up thing. Unfortunately titles are my downfall. Which is bad, because one of Roddy Doyle’s Rules of Writing, in the Guardian’s TEN RULES FOR WRITING FICTION was, “Do give the work a name as quickly as […]

Saturday, 31 October 2009 Here we go So NaNoWriMo begins today! I’m planning on working a six day week, so that means I have a target of 1,923 words a day. Oh my god! That sounds so many. Fingers crossed the baby goes down well for every nap this month (laughs manically). Okay fingers crossed […]