On… a few things about my books 7 Replies Ten things you never really wanted to know about The Dating Detox 1. I lived in an apartment share in Pimlico when I was writing the first draft of The Dating Detox. The place I lived was a bit like this, but not quite as nice. Our apartment was the top three floors, and my [...]
On… growing up 2 Replies How did you decide what you wanted to be when you grew up? I never knew. Well, actually, when I was four I wanted to be A Lady With A Baby. (Yah. Fight the good fight, little feminist.) Then I wanted to open a library in which all the books were written by me. (This [...]
On… guess where we’re going…. 7 Replies As you guys know, I’m writing Your Next Favourite Book Series. It’s set in New York, and pretty much the minute I got the deal with St Martins Press, I began the process of applying for a US visa. Getting a US visa, as a writer, is tough. It’s called an O-1 visa, and you [...]
On… The Afterparty 1 Reply I chose this book just for the cover. The Afterparty by Leo Benedictus. And then I read it. It’s brilliant.I wish the cover for The Dating Detox looked like that, by the way. It would seem so much more appropriate, don’t you think? Only with vodka instead of whiskey, and maybe a cigarette stubbed out [...]
On… a book print 3 Replies I love this print. It’s from 20×200. I want to commission one with my favourite books. But then I’d have to decide what my favourite books are and oh God, that would be a nightmare. Because how on earth do you choose your favourite books? Do you choose the books that stunned you and made [...]
On… character-abuse 1 Reply The other night I read an interesting piece in the New Yorker about Anna Faris. (Read it here if you’re on an iPad.) I can’t stop thinking about this excerpt: ‘To make a woman adorable, one successful female screenwriter says, “you have to defeat her in the beginning. It’s a conscious thing I do. Abuse [...]
On… stuff I’ve been doing 3 Replies So, inspired by Cup of Joe, I’m going to post about things I’ve been enjoying in the past couple of weeks. Now, I’ve mostly been feeding Errol and/or gazing at him in a nauseatingly adoringly way and/or catching up on sleep with coma-like cat naps. But the rest of the time I’ve been… Writing my [...]