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January 30, 2014
Read our features in YOU, Stylist, Look, Cosmo, MSN and Huff Post
We’ve updated our press page so now you can read all the features, articles and extracts that have been published in the last month. Here we’ve selected some of our favourites that you might like to peruse – just click on the image and you’ll be redirected to a PDF or the article as it appears online. To read the others (incl. from The Express, more Huff Post, Now, Woman and Home and lots more) please visit our In The Press page.
January 14, 2014
How to make – and keep – New Year’s resolutions and plan great goals for 2014
Christmas has come and gone, mid-January’s here and we’re all broke, fed up with the rain and feeling guilty about breaking all our NY resolutions already.
Popular resolutions tend to be to lose weight, go to the gym, quit smoking, drink less and spend less money. Not a very exciting start to the year. Perhaps it’s not surprising that a study by Cancer Research UK of 4,000 adults found that 39 per cent of people gave up on their resolutions in just two weeks with only nine per cent claiming to...
January 9, 2014
The press campaign kicks off
This Book Will Make You Happy/Calm/Sleep/Confident areout nowand it’s all kicking off press-wise!
(For all press enquiries please contact Margot Weale at Quercus: margot.weale@quercusbooks.co.uk)
Coming up:
Happy feature in this Sunday’s YOU magazine (the Daily Mail supplement); Sleep features in both Look and Now magazines on 21 Jan; Calm recommended as part of Esquire Weekly’s Top 10 self-help books of 2014; feature for Cosmopolitan online
Out now:
Huffington Post serialisation:Huff Post’s four...
January 6, 2014
The books are out! (It’s official)
Today (Jan 6) is the official launch day for our books This Book Will Make You Happy/Calm/Sleep/Confident! (Which may explain that distant whooping sound you can hear in the distance.)
You can find them in lots of bookshops (including Foyles and lots of independents) and online.
They are featured in this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine, tomorrow’s Look, this week’s Esquire Weekly and next week’s YOU magazine. They are due to be serialised on Huffington Post and they were also in last month’s Zest...
