Dear me! It’s been a busy start to 2012 and I think it’s going to be a pretty damn exciting year. First up, my name in print from the Undiscovered Voices anthology – an honourable mention: It really is thrilling and I can’t wait to hear some superb news from the honourary mentions and those [...]
I wrote this blogpost and completely forgot to set it “live”. Sigh. Where is my head? Wow, what a fab weekend. Mark and I trained it up to Leeds and it all went so well. Got to write and edit for just over 2 hours, so that was superb. Also, first class travel was super. [...]
Is sometimes the easiest thing to do. I’m talking about GoodReads. I’ve eventually signed up for it. Not just to add MFB reviews, but also to get MORE reccommendations and to read other reviews and be alerted to upcoming titles I may want to pop over onto my Amazon wishlist. So if you haven’t already, [...]
Official poster Watched the trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman last night. And squirmed with pent up joy. Charlize Theron gets to play the Evil Queen with such style and grace and wickedness – I am won over. Sadly, poor Kirsten is cast in the role of Victim a k a Snow White, but hopefully the script [...]
Mark and I are both on a very strict diet – but that has not stopped us from becoming slaves to the food channel and in particular to Nigel Slater and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s shows, whom we’ve liked a lot in the past, but sort of now have come to appreciate them more fully. I don’t [...]
So everyone in the world seems to know and realise I am a fan about Moleskine notebooks. And by “fan” I mean stupidly obsessed about them. I have a LOT of them at home, all unused and most pristine without even being taken from their cellophane! As it stands, I have four of them in [...]
This is a speech Matt Damon gave over in the States as part of their “Save our Schools” march in protest against Obama and the US government’s attempt to standardise tests in schools and in support of teachers. I flew overnight from Vancouver to be with you today. I landed in New York a few hours [...]
I realised this when we travelled to West India Quay on Sunday by DLR to go and watch Super 8 by JJ Abrams. Superb! Go watch it – clever script writing too. Lots of visual lessons to learn to for storytelling. I love the DLR and think it’s superbly futuristic, especially when it starts going [...]
So last night Mark and I got home, turned on the TV and watched as our adoptive city morphed into a foreign and terrifying place you would never want to visit, even if someone paid you £1,000,000. I am of course talking about the riots that took place on the 8th August. I try not to [...]
No, I am not talking about my lustrous hair here, I am talking about writing conditioning. Mark made an interesting comment the other day, saying that he was in a coffee shop to grab a quick drink and to maybe get a few minutes worth of writing done during lunch, when he had his iPhone [...]
