Do you judge a book by its cover?
I’m not speaking metaphorically in this instance, but literally. Lionel Shriver wrote an article in the Guardian last week about how publishers use book covers as a way of targetting women readers… “With merciful exceptions, my publishers constantly send prospective covers for my books that play to what “women readers” supposedly want. Take the American [...]
Crime of Passion
A friend recently posted Auden’s poem, The More Loving One, on facebook, and it set me thinking – and as usual these days, I was thinking about writing. I’ve been reading a few romance novels, thinking about the possibility of entering a competition run by Mills and Boon. Now that isn’t as mad as it [...]
Book Review : Happy Home for Broken Hearts by Rowan Coleman
“Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less rose-tinted. Once upon a time, Ellie had her ‘happily ever after’ moment when she married her beloved Nick, but fifteen years later her husband’s tragic death leaves her alone with their soon-to-become-a-teenager [...]
Interview with Rowan Coleman
I first “met” Rowan online through her Facebook status story competition – as mentioned in my review of her novel, Happy Home for Broken Hearts, which will be posted here later. Rowan kindly agreed to answer a few questions for this blog, and it was a real treat for me ask a great writer about [...]
Road Testing the KeepCup
I’ve never had a coffee cup that comes with a manual before – next time I’ll be sure to read it first Blogger’s disclaimer – the KeepCup was provided to Birds on the Blog as a free sample for review; and these are my opinions. The KeepCup is basically the coffee addicts equivalent of the [...]
