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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...