Blog Posts

  • Which Book Would You Be?

    Ray Bradbury was a wonderful, inventive writer who wove his magic using deceptively simple language. Along with many others, Fahrenheit 451 was my favourite. Bradbury wrote about a society where books were burned and the only way people had of keeping the words alive was for each become the living embodiment of a book; by…

  • Reading a Book: it’s a journey, innit?

    Are you a corner folder, an enveloper or a proper bookmarker? I want to know how you keep your place when you are reading.

  • Smelly People

    Before I could drive or had a car of my own, I relied on public transport. There were many things I liked about taking the bus everywhere. I could have a glass of wine with lunch and not have to worry about driving home; I could spend the journey listening to music or day-dreaming about…

  • Prizes, Jobs and Nick Knowles.

    It’s been a while, I know, and I have all kinds of excuses but no good reasons. Anyhoo, this is a ‘catch-up’ kind of post, so bear with me.*

  • Media Ready, Media Savvy

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Like a typical Brit, I abhor promoting myself and my work, preferring to let others do it on my behalf. But in today’s economy where the provision of book publicists is offered to only the already successful and well-known, it is incumbent on the rest

  • Lucky Seven Game

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I have been tagged by the lovely Susan Elliot Wright to take part in the Lucky Seven game where you go to page 7 or 77 of your WIP, go to line 7 and post the next 7 lines or sentences. I am juggling far too many projects at one time but…

  • And the winner is…..

    Many thanks to everyone who took the time to read the interview with Vanessa Gebbie and leave a comment to enter the draw to win a paperback copy of her wonderful book, The Coward’s Tale. I used Raffle King to pick the winner at random and am delighted to announce that the lucky recipient of…

  • G is for George of the Jungle

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] This is the second of my guilty pleasures. A baby boy survives a plane crash in the jungle and is brought up by a wise, talking ape (voiced by John Cleese). Years later, an American socialite comes to the jungle to escape her overbearing fiance and when George and Ursula meet, they…

  • F is for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Ferris Bueller takes the day off school and decides that his friend Cameron, should join him. He fakes sickness and when Ferris goes round to Cameron’s house, he convinces him to steal his father’s Ferrari. Together, they hoodwink the school principal into believing that there has been a death in the family…

  • E is for The Exorcist

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] The film opens with elderly priest Father Merrin on an archeological dig in Iraq where he finds a demonic statue. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. an actress has rented a house with her daughter Reagan while she works on a movie. Strange things begin happening in the house: there are noises in the…