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August 14, 2015
A Woman’s Wit, Wisdom and Pratfalls’ Ventnor Fringe 2015
@vfringe Miri Green chats to Joan Ellis about her show this Saturday, 15 August. See you in The Scout Hut, Ventnor at 7.30pm.
The Review Show 2015: Joan Ellis ('A Woman's Wit Wisdom and Pratfalls') by The Ventnor Fringe on Mixcloud
August 6, 2015
GIRLS! Grab your wiggles and join me in the Scout Hut at VFringe.
Girls, grab your woggle and join me in the Scout Hut at Ventnor Fringe Saturday 15 August 7.30pm when me and my pratfalls will be strutting our funky stuff.
A WOMAN’S WIT, WISDOM AND PRATFALLS
Join ‘funny, fascinating’ local author, Joan Ellis as she introduces the flip, flawed women in her acclaimed books, tells celebrity tales and shares her banana-skin moments.
Meet 80s Ella, a girl in a man’s world in I AM ELLA.BUY ME, vulnerable Sandra, from the ‘terrifying’ Isle of Wight-based chiller, THE KILLING OF MUMMY’S BOY and Susan in her quest for the truth, in the ‘excellently written’ psychological thriller, GUILT.
Finally, get to know hapless single Mum, Joan herself, in her ‘funny, poignant’ memoir, THE THINGS YOU MISSED WHILE YOU WERE AWAY.
Read a review of Joan’s previous show: http://minxthinx.com/2015/06/04/adven...
https://www.joan-ellis.com
July 13, 2015
Beating The Drum for Adland authors
Forgive me for blowing my own trumpet but I am thrilled to be in The Drum, the UK’s most visited marketing news website.
I was interviewed for a piece on advertising writers turned authors. Having worked in the same ad agency as Salman Rushdie, I am in excellent company!
June 18, 2015
GUILT ‘Unconventional and brilliantly written’
‘Joan Ellis has a mind that knows how the human brain ticks. She knows its every fault, it’s every trick. She understands how to turn the muck of a not-quite-ordinary life into something like a heroic high-wire act, and for that, this reader has only admiration.’
June 4, 2015
‘All the makings of a fine sitcom’
Returned to my beloved Crouch End, with Ella, for the Arts Festival and this is how it went: http://minxthinx.com/2015/06/04/adven...
April 8, 2015
Free gift for all Mums
Bringing up baby? Here’s a gift from me to you. It’s FREE on Amazon Kindle until Saturday.
Hope it makes you smile.
March 27, 2015
I’m giving you a fright for FREE!
Have your spine-tingled for FREE. The Killing of Mummy’s Boy is FREE, 27 – 28 March on Amazon Kindle
http://amazon.co.uk/Killing-Mummys-Boy-Joan-Ellis-ebook/dp/B00N7S1MSG
Five star praise for: The Killing of Mummy’s Boy
‘In the tradition of great British mystery writers, Joan Ellis is serving up a dark and edgy thriller that in turns chills your bones and boils your blood.’ Dii
March 19, 2015
5 of 5 stars to I am Ella. Buy me by Joan Ellis
It’s reviews like this that make the year at the keyboard all worthwhile. Thank you so much Rachel Dove.
March 14, 2015
‘Funny, yet poignant’ this book is for anyone who has been a child
For anyone who has been a child, THE THINGS YOU MISSED WHILE YOU WERE AWAY is a ‘funny, yet poignant’ memoir tracing my childhood and my daughter’s.
My Mum ,brought me up alone in the 60s. By the 90s, when I found myself a single parent to Sophie, the world was a very different place. But some things never change. Unless they are nappies. In which case, stand well clear! Thankfully, Sophie was keen to move on – ripping off the offending article, racing past the potty and flinging herself onto the loo, flushed with success.
Based on a column I wrote about Sophie, this book shows all is not lost even when we lose someone special because there is no limit on love.
‘Hilarious. Funny, yet poignant.’ Trish Jackson, author
