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Too Rich and Too Mean.
My daughter and her friend were asked to work pouring drinks at a cocktail party for a woman the friend had met briefly — two hours for £20. Not great money, but not bad for pouring drinks, and with youth unemployment at 22% (as I keep reminding her), they accepted. Here’s what happened. They [...]
THERE IS NO DOG in America
At last! Barking and whining at a bookstore near you, leaping up on the furniture and chewing your best shoes, peeing on the wheel of your neighbour’s BMW and growling at the Fedex guy…. Yes, There Is No Dog is now available in America. For those of you who follow my blog solely for the cutting edge political [...]
How I Live Now, The Sequel
I’ve been sent a fair number of e-mails over the years begging me to write a sequel to How I Live Now. What happens to Daisy and Edmond? Do they end up living happily ever after? Do they have kids? How many? And what about Piper? Do they all keep in touch? Is there another [...]
January inventory.
One book, half written. One horse, unruly. Two dogs, unwalked. One husband + one new chainsaw. One pile of firewood. One teenage daughter (nothing to wear). 168 books, unread. Five bills unpaid. Four pomegranates left over from November. One garden, muddy. Six new daffodil shoots. One half hour more of daylight. Three months till spring. [...]
The lure of the bad boy.
Remember Ricochet? The horse a three-year-old could ride? Well, I’ve been riding him for nearly a month now and I can safely say I wouldn’t let a child anywhere near him. Not that he’s bad. Oh no. He never puts a hoof wrong. Never. Except when he does. But here’s the strange thing. He’s started [...]
The role of the editor in book publishing.
A few years ago, this blog would have been a no-brainer. The few-years-ago editor might have helped to shape your book, offering an objective, educated opinion as to why the orthodox Jewish dragon wasn’t moving the plot forward, why the 300,000 word sex scene might be overtaxing the average ten-year-old, whether an entire novel narrated [...]
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