Chances are you won’t have been able to avoid last summers literary sensation Gone Girl - it was (and still is) everywhere. A New York Times Bestseller and in every supermarket, bookstore, train station and plastering the walls of the underground, it was also a book club favourite and one of the most talked about reads of the 2013. Now with a major motion picture set to be released starring Ben Affleck, and movie rights sold for her other two novels, things really couldn’t be any better for author Gillian Flynn. I’m a huge fan, she has everything I’m looking for in a writer and literary crush. She’s razor sharp, sinister, dark and unsettling. Her books have commercial viability . . .
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How to Write a Novel
Sound familiar? I'm sure this is something every writer can relate to! It doesn't just apply to novels of course.... ;) LB x . . .
World Book Day
Happy World Book Day to all my readers! The power of books is best discovered at an early age and WBD is a wonderful way to promote the joy of reading to children everywhere. Here are some of my favourite children's titles which I read when I was starting out on my own book love journey... Funny Bones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr Not Now, Bernard by David McKee The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Absolutely ANYTHING by Beatrix Potter :) LB . . .
Baby Love
As a writer I've always been determined to have a ready made library for my first born. My baby girl is due in three weeks time and the second book I bought for her (months ago!) is one I loved when I was a child, and a real classic... The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr... I'll share more of her baby library over the next few weeks, hopefully it will bring back some of your own reading memories and literary first loves from childhood ❤️ LB x . . .