On Cambridge and Friendship and a New Book

King’s College, Cambridge

Anyone who says that online friendships aren’t real friendships has obviously never had one.

Louise Bates and I met a lot of years ago. If I remember rightly it was via the blog of another writer (Lee Strauss, to be precise, who had just published her first book). Both Louise and I were in our early days as bloggers and writers, and had yet to publish our first pieces. Her comment on Lee’s blog post caught my interest—who was this E.L. Bates person? She sounded li...