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The mature thing to do when you both have enormous, suffocatingly impending deadlines as well as knee surgery and an enforced lay-off coming up would be to save up a good book for the latterly mentioned respite. I, of course, did nothing of the sort, head-in-the-sanding it ostrich style to pretend that I didn’t have [...]

There are few better things to come home to on a Friday night than a just-released book whose arrival you’ve been highly anticipating. Especially when what stretches before you is a rare weekend relatively free of work or social commitments. Suffice to say I did a H&R Block-style celebratory fist pump when I found Richelle [...]

Douglas Adams famously said that he loves deadlines and, in particular, the sound they make as they fly by. I’m not normally one who hears that whooshing sound, studious and OCD deadline-meeter that I am. But fatigue has gotten the better of me lately—it’s been an extremely big 18 months work-wise—and I’ve been swamped by [...]

Irony is finding out that after months of moaning and moping about (and subjecting others to it) that there’s a new book coming out in the series you desperately love, then realising that you will neither be in the country when it’s released. Nor will you—even if you somehow manage to get it into your [...]

Nothing says ‘hooray for getting in a draft of a really difficult project and giving yourself a couple of hours off from deadlines as far as the eye can see’ as going to see the breathlessly anticipated Harry Potter finale. This is precisely the moment I need to issue an apology to those people—who read [...]

My Dorothy-style there’s-no-book-like-Vampire-Academy moan hasn’t stopped since the last few times I’ve mentioned it on this blog. I don’t own red shoes and clicking my heels together to conjure up either more, as-yet-unpublished books in the series or books equal to the task of filling the series’ big, now-empty shoes hasn’t worked. My friend Kate [...]