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February 19, 2014
Author Interview with Rhoda Baxter
Here’s me talking about ice cream again…
Originally posted on Me, My Books and I:
Today I’m delighted to welcome Rhoda Baxter to Me, My Books and I:
Rhoda Baxter always wanted to be a writer, but her parents told her she needed to get a ‘real’ job and write in her spare time. So she became a scientist and now works in technology transfer. She now writes contemporary romantic comedies in whatever spare time she can find around her day job and her family. Which means her parents were...
February 15, 2014
Inheritance Books – February Grace
This week, the intriguingly named February Grace shares her Inheritance Books.
Hi February, welcome to Inheritance Books. Please, tell us a bit about yourself.
Greetings, everyone! My name is February Grace, and I have been told I’m a bit of an eccentric. I don’t see how that could possibly be, really, given I only own the one cat and even if it’s true that I do have more than one pair of Converse high tops, most of them are, in fact, the same shade of pink.
I’m also a dreamer, thinker (too much...
February 14, 2014
Doctor January- a book trailer in Lego
I’m having an exciting day. Not because it’s valentine’s day. We don’t really ‘do’ valentine’s day in our house. The first (and last) valentine’s day meal DH and I went to was a disaster, now recounted with much hilarity. It was so awful, we decided never to bother again. Every 13th of February, he does a little panicky check “we’re still not doing valentine’s day, right?” and that’s about it. Just as well, really, because I’d forget. I have a terrible memory for dates.
So, if it’s not that, w...
February 8, 2014
The Saturday Spotlight – Rhoda Baxter tells all!
Today I’m chatting to the Write Romantics about becoming a novelist and which of my heroes is my favourite. (Yes, I do have a favourite!) There may be mention of cheesecake.
Originally posted on thewriteromantics:
Our guest on the blog this week is Rhoda Baxter. Rhoda started off in the South of England and pinged around the world a bit until she ended up in the North of England, where the cakes are better. Along the way she collected one husband, two kids, a few (ahem) extra stone...
The Saturday Spotlight - Rhoda Baxter tells all!
Reblogged from thewriteromantics:
Our guest on the blog this week is Rhoda Baxter. Rhoda started off in the South of England and pinged around the world a bit until she ended up in the North of England, where the cakes are better. Along the way she collected one husband, two kids, a few (ahem) extra stone in weight and a DPhil in molecular biology (but not necessarily in that order).
Today I'm chatting to the Write Romantics about becoming a novelist and which of my...
February 5, 2014
The Joy of Colouring In (+ free colouring-in sheet for February)
In December, I came across Alain Moose’s fabulous downloadable advent calendar. It consisted of a calendar full of doodles which you could print out. The ‘calendar’ numbers were scattered around the picture and you had to find and colour in the correct date each day. I pinned it to the wall at work. I have a pack of pencils in my desk at work (for work, honestly!). I keep it next to the emergency chocolate.
I’d forgotten how much fun it is to colour in. Finding the elusive number, deciding on...
February 3, 2014
Goodreads Book Review – A Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I picked up this book because, well, everyone’s talking about it. A few people said ‘you’ll love it’. You know how it is.
It took me less than 48 hours to read this book because I couldn’t bear to put it down. I loved the voice of Hazel Grace. I loved her deeply pragmatic view of life and death. Augustus Waters is just lovely too.
The author describes cancer with romanticizing the illness or the dying. The thing about ‘cancer perks’ mad...
January 29, 2014
Having a Ball Tour: stop 4 – M’s bookshelf
Continuing on with the Having a Ball Tour, Maryline gave it 4 stars and wrote a lovely review here:
So far, most reviewers have commented that they were interested in how Stevie seems so childish at first. Since I intended the book to track the process of Stevie ‘growing up’, that’s brilliant news for me.
January 28, 2014
Inheritance Books – Lynda Renham
Lynda Renham, author of books with hilarious titles, is visiting Inheritance Books today.
Hi Lynda, welcome to Inheritance Books. Please tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Lynda Renham. I am the bestselling author of the romantic comedies Croissants and Jam Coconuts and Wonderbras, Pink Wellies and Flat Caps and The Dog’s Bollocks which is my latest novel. I also have a little ditty out titled The Confessions of a Chocoholic, which is a collection of short stories about my mad life.
I live...
January 25, 2014
Inheritance Books – Robert Fanshaw
This week’s Inheritance Books come from the enigmatic novelist Robert Fanshaw. I’ve met him you know. He looks just like his picture…
Hi Robert, welcome to Inheritance Books. To start off, please tell us a bit about yourself.
Hello Rhoda. I spent a lot of time at school reading comics and science fiction and graduated to my father’s law library which was full of the bizarre verdicts and judgements that shape our society today. Eventually I was called to The Bar – not The Oddfellows, the legal o...
