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By Joseph Galliano - January 13, 2012

“Easy,” I thought, in December 2009, when I set out on the task of compiling the new edition of Dear Me, A Letter To My Sixteen Year Old Self. I had an agreement from JK Rowling to write the foreword and a letter to her 16 year old self in my pocket – her very kind friend, the comedian Peter Kay, acted as a go-between for me (he had contributed to the first edition). We...

The problem with Bill Bratton

By John Heale - December 15, 2011

So - we assume - there was an argument between the Home Office and No 10 over Bratton's potential appointment as Met Commissioner. Now he's here in the UK, and getting everywhere. He's lectured at the LSE, met police chiefs, and spoken to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee. If there's one thing we can be sure of, it's that Bill Bratton's ideas are being heard. I just...

It's War on Gangs time

By John Heale - December 15, 2011

First of all this piece by Peter Squires re 2011 riots, gangs etc echoes many of the points I'll be making in the updated version of One Blood - it's well worth a read: http://uc.web.ucu.org.uk/2011/10/there%E2%80%99s-nothing-%E2%80%98simple%E2%80%99-about-%E2%80%98simple-criminality%E2%80%99/ Secondly, a few words on the War on Gangs. The War on Gangs takes place once a year,...

Reading the Riots: first thoughts

By John Heale - December 15, 2011

As soon as I saw the first headline to come out of Reading the Riots, I began to fear for the project. In fact - that's the problem right there. Journalistic ethics and academic ethics just aren't comfortable bedfellows. A decent sociological report into a huge epidemic wouldn't usually generate a headline. Yet there it was in 24pt bold: Blame the Police: Why the rioters say...

THE ONE THAT I WANT e-book is out today!

By Jennifer Echols - December 8, 2011

You can download it right now! The paperback will be in stores on February 7. It is completely coincidental but very fitting that my book shares its birthday with a special person. Gemma, the heroine of this book, is a majorette in the marching band. When I told my friends Jessica and Amy, who were majorettes in my marching band, that I needed their help writing a book, they...

Slightly Irregular is coming!

By Rhonda Pollero - December 6, 2011

Slightly Irregular is now available for pre-order. I'm so excited that Finley is back with a new adventure!

The Secret To Being Funny

By Mark Scarbrough - November 28, 2011

Bruce and I have had so much fun giving interviews and talking to people about our book busting 101 cooking myths: LOBSTERS SCREAM WHEN YOU BOIL THEM. We've even hosted a few culinary trivia challenge games at bookstores across the country. What a blast! One question comes up all the time: how'd you make the book so funny? The secret? There are two of us. You know the hardest...

Live Your Dream

By Trudi Trueit - November 26, 2011

I love what I do for a living. Most of the time. Like any job, though, it has its challenges. Sometimes, the words don’t come when I need them. Or the story doesn’t work even when I’ve carefully plotted it. Or my co-workers (a.k.a. my characters) can be tedious and uncooperative. But somehow, someway, the knots unfurls, the story comes together, and there is peace; for a...

Why I Should Thank Neil Gaiman For My Writing Career

By Mark Griffiths - November 24, 2011

In the first five years I spent at my comprehensive school in North Wales, my friend Richard and I would write and record comedy sketches onto tape. Having a much about with the tape recorder was always a reliable bit of fun whenever a mate came around to my house, but Richard and I ended up taking the whole process extremely seriously. We loved listening to radio comedy - Son...

I've just finished writing my new book!

By Paige Toon - November 24, 2011

I’ve just sent my new book off to my editor and I’m feeling slightly bittersweet. It’s hard to let go of this one, but as my editor just return-emailed me to say, ‘it’s in safe hands’, and I know that she’s right.I have loved writing One Perfect Summer – it’s my favourite book that I’ve written so far. This year has been hectic – my husband and I bought and...

Why I Should Thank Neil Gaiman For My Writing Career

By Mark Griffiths - November 23, 2011

In the first five years I spent at my comprehensive school in North Wales, my friend Richard and I would write and record comedy sketches onto tape. Having a muck about with the tape recorder was always a reliable bit of fun whenever a mate came around to my house, but Richard and I ended up taking the whole process extremely seriously. We typed out scripts for ourselves and...

By Paige Toon - November 23, 2011

Posted on Booksandthecity.co.uk in July 2011I love living in London. Today I went with my family to Westminster Abbey, the place where thirty-eight monarchs have been crowned king or queen in the last thousand years. The history is breathtaking, and this incredible city is surrounded by it. Recently we took the kids to see the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, and in a...

By Jennifer Echols - November 16, 2011

We interrupt this National Novel Writing Month for a couple of special announcements. First, the e-book version of The One That I Want will go on sale only three weeks from today, on December 6! You can pre-order it for Kindle or Nook. If you prefer a paperback, it will be in stores on February 7. You can pre-order it now from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Second, thanks to...

By Mary Hogan - November 16, 2011

Greetings, all. For the past year and a half, I've been wearing the same jeans and T-shirts (laundered when needed) while I work on a new novel....adult fiction, this time around. Now that I've come out of hibernation, I want to go shopping! What should I wear? I'm totally out of it....

By Edna Buchanan - November 7, 2011

BOOKS & BOOKS 265 Aragon Avenue Coral Gables< Florida 33134 305-422-4408 November 8, 2011 8 PM Edna will introduce her new book, A Dark and Lonely Place, on the 11th. She will be available to sign books after the talk. Please join us for an entertaining evening. This month marks the centennial of the fatal shooting that launched John Ashley’s legend. The...

Speaking as a stammerer (…if that’s not a contradiction in terms)

By Mark Griffiths - November 4, 2011

I was chatting once to Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell (Pow! Big name drop in very first sentence! Get me!) who, like me, is a writer with a stammer. Ours are not terrible, life-crushing, debilitating stammers, but nonetheless often frustrating and inconvenient. And we both felt that stammering played a part in turning us into writers. It’s not just that writing allows...

Ripple from the Other Side of the World

By Ann Pearlman - November 4, 2011

Shortly after the 2011 new year, I received an email from Michelle, the director of a Hospice in a North Adelaide, South Australia. A new cookie club, inspired by the novel, brought cookies to the hospice. “A lady by the name of Carole and her cookie club friends shared with us an amazing gesture, delivering to our 16 bed facility copious beautifully home baked and decorated...

My Book, SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES, Will Soon Be a TV Series

By Josie Brown - October 31, 2011

They like me. They really, really like me.I now know how Sally Field felt. Writers have their own version of The Other 99 Percent.Concurrently, there is the 1 Percent, too: those authors who have been lucky enough have some pretty powerful -- and persistant -- fairy godfolk to help them prosper in this quirky profession: like an agent who wiped off the slush around them and saw...

5 Opportunities to Win Book of Dreams' This Week

By Davis Bunn - October 31, 2011

Friends, I wanted to share the latest blogger reviews of my new novel, Book of Dreams, with you, and to alert you of FIVE opportunities to win a copy. To enter the giveaway contests, simply click the links to each blog and follow each blogger's instructions. Here are excerpts from two reviews I just received: Tammy’s Book Parlor by Tammy...

Notes for Nick de Bois

By John Heale - October 31, 2011

Nick de Bois MP: I want this amendment to go through so that we have mandatory custodial sentences. Waving a knife around is a threatening act. It can draw people into knife crime. I hope the Government will come around to my point of view. I’m pleased that with such a strong presence of support from backbenchers, I hope the Government will understand there’s a lot of...

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