

Blog Tote Bags are in the building. And they look BEAUTIFUL
If you would like one, please do get in touch with me: itisjustaword@gmail.com and we can see what we can do. #ifyoulikebigbooks #books...
Happy National Book Lovers Day!
A day for giving and loving and sharing and receive- Who am I kidding? If you don't read, you're going to hell. If you've never met a...

FYI SPOILER ALERT! Has The Cursed Child ruined the Harry Potter series?
This is a sentence I never thought I'd say. Like every Potter nerd, the moment the play AND the script book were announced earlier this...
'You Got This, Son!': Why It's OK to Fail.
Losing your job is a bit like going through a break up: if you have to go back to your place of work after the dreaded words have been...


Red Hot Summer Reads
Summer is the perfect season for reading. It gives you something to do whilst you perfect your tan, you look a lot more blasé and...


Interview with Amanda Bouchet author of the new series The Kingmaker Trilogy
One of the best things and the thing that I love most about being a book blogger is being able to talk to amazing authors about their...


And no we don't just fanny about with press releases thank you
It is a truth often acknowledged in the world of work that working in Publicity is essentially fannying about with press releases. I have...
Chapter 1: The Last One
Firstly you should know that this is a novel I have been working on for some time. Three years in fact. Second, this chapter has been...


Meeting Margaret Atwood: My Literary Hero
I was originally going to title this: The evening I met the Queen of Speculative Fiction but I thought that was a tad over the top....


Clichés: Should we avoid them?
As writers, we're told that we should avoid the dreaded C word like the bubonic plague. It's every writer's struggle and nightmare...