Now that I’ve got access to write freely on this blog (thanks Rivka!) I thought I’d raise a topic that has come to my attention a couple of times over the last few months, but which has exploded onto my radar this morning in the worst kind of way. Ebook piracy. We all know it…
Tonight I attended a storytelling evening at a local cafe (Velocity Cafe on St Stephens Brae in Inverness). It was a really lovely evening, all based on stories the involve cafes in some form of another. The organisers have a blog at wagonalice.wordpress.com where they encourage people to submit their own short stories about cafe…
I realise I haven’t done a news letter for quite a while. In fact, I haven’t really updated much of anything for a while. I feel like I’ve abandoned you all and can only apologise for doing so! It’s been a crazy few weeks. There comes a time every spring when the craft fairs explode…
This is a book review for Tangled (Book 1 from the Tangled Series) by Emma Chase. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tangled-The-Series-ebook/dp/B00CW665VI/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_2_CK7V 5 big fat hilarious stars There comes a time, as an editor and author, when you realise that some of the magic of reading has faded away a bit. Your tolerance for mediocre books has divebombed spectacularly and…
When I first met my nephew Charlie, he was only an hour old and I had never been so scared in my entire life. I looked down into his tiny, sleeping face with his perfectly formed little hand clutching my thumb and I was swamped with a fierce and burning desire to revert to my…
This is a review of Conviction, first book in the Club Destiny series by Nicole Edwards http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008QYUOAI/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title 3* – too long and rambling I’d heard really good things about this book so I admit that I went into it with high expectations. I’m sad to say that I don’t think it lived up to the…
Book Review for Blind Obsession by Ella Frank http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blind-Obsession-ebook/dp/B00C9FLJP4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1367683445&sr=1-1&keywords=blind+obsession 3.5* overall (3* for the story, plus extra for the concept) This was another book that was difficult to score. The story follows Gemma, a journalist, who has been summoned to the French chateau home of Philippe, a tortured artist who has been outcast from the…
Rivka and Ivory 