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Vote for the oddest book title!
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Here’s to weird book titles! Time to vote for who you think should win the 2009 Diagram Prize - which awards the book with the oddest title of the year. The shortlist has been selected and the winner will be announced on the 26th March. The shortlist is as follows:
The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel [...]
Author Blog Awards - Nominations Open!
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
The Author Blog Awards competition is now officially open! For a brief summary of how the competition works read our previous blog about the awards or visit CompletelyNovel.com. You can now nominate your favourite author blogs or micro-blogs (from now until 2 April) to give them a chance of being shortlisted for the awards. It’s [...]
Drink to get more children reading!
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Who doesn’t enjoy curling up on the couch with a good book and a glass of good wine? The two go together nicely and make for a relaxing evening.
But now I’ve discovered how wine and books can pair up for a much more worthy cause.
The Fledgling initiative aims to produce and sell delicious wine to [...]
Mindfulness and the Big Poster Challenge
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
For some reason, my name seems to have found its way onto an online database under Creative Director. Now that’s a fine title to possess, but sadly I can’t claim to hold such official creative prowess. (Would the A* in my Art IGCSE count?…)
So whilst I have to disappoint the illustrators, photographers and creative agencies [...]
Author Blog Awards 2010
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I’ve just been alerted to the upcoming launch of the Author Blogs Awards - run by CompletelyNovel.com. The aim of this award is “to highlight to readers the great content that you can find in author blogs, reward those authors who write excellent blogs, and encourage other authors to start their own.”
Here’s how it will [...]
Snapshot: Ann Cleeves & Martin Edwards
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Taken last night at the-one-and-only Goldsboro Books (London) where I joined a merry crowd to celebrate the launch of crime-writers Ann Cleeves’ new book Blue Lightening (a new case for Shetland detective Jimmy Perez) and Martin Edwards‘ new book The Serpent Pool (the latest in his Lake District mystery series).
Chiara Priorelli, Publicity & Online Marketing [...]
An interesting lesson in crafty marketing…
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
I received an email the other day from a finance company wishing to advertise on our website with a link back to their site. I didn’t think it was appropriate, and said as much, but they insisted it would be a “textual advert” and somewhat hidden within the content on the page. Still unconvinced but [...]
Love-sick on a book tour
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
We’re coming up to Valentine’s and perhaps inspired by the fact I watched the Sex & the City Movie again which sees Carrie reading a book Love Letters from Great Men, I googled the topic and enjoyed a few minutes perusing a few of such amorous letters posted on the internet.
I can’t help but share [...]
Train your brain (and have fun in the process)
Monday, February 8th, 2010
It’s a known fact that the Telegraph Online is an excellent source of news, features, review pages, blogs TV and job listings etc…but were you aware that it offered brain-training excercises too?
If not, allow me to introduce you to Word Bubbles - a brain-training game to which I am now seriously addicted and causing fierce [...]
Review of It’s Complicated
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Earlier this week I went to see It’s Complicated - the new movie featuring Meryl Streep as a divorcée , who unexpectedly finds herself having an affair… with her ex-husband. The ex-husband is Alec Baldwin, a man who had left her ten years ago for a yonger woman, and to whom he is currently still [...]
More neologisms…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
I absolutely loved reading all the brilliant entries to our recent Caboose competition - the one where we asked you to supply us with alternative meanings for the word ‘caboose’ - see previous blog. Now I’m delighted to discover that The Washington Post has been running similar neologism contests (in which readers are asked to [...]
Best Birthday E-cards
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Never one to shy away from any kind of excuse for festivity, I am happy to broadcast that today is my birthday.
On this note, I confess that I am terrible at remembering other people’s birthdays. And when I do remember it’s usually on the actual day and too late to be able to send a proper card. [...]
Happy Australia Day!
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
G’day cobbers - today is Australia Day!
I am always reminded of this since my Aussie boyfriend never lets this day pass without due fanfare. In fact, we had a pre-Aussie day BBQ this weekend - replete with bottles of Crown Lager, marinated prawns on the barbie, Aussie snacks such as Burger Rings, Shapes and In a Biskit Dixie Drumsticks, as well [...]
Word-play and word-rewind…
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I love clever word games, play on words etc - and this video takes the biscuit. A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. It was submitted by a 20-year-old in contest entitled “u @ 50″ (run by AARP ) and I think it is simply brilliant. (Make sure [...]
When Customer Service fails…
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
I should have had Broadband up and running in my house by now. I spent over two hours on the phone with Talk Talk’s Customer Service last night to find out why it had not been installed as yet. It was a call which involved being passed round every one of their departments, sitting in [...]
Why delete one of the best songs?
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Last week I went to see the musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre (and now consequently break out into renditions of Mr Cellophane and All that Jazz when feeling bored). I’d recently rewatched the movie version so the songs were all familiar to me - except for one that is, the one about ’class’. And it’s probably my [...]
What do you mean?
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Sometimes the written word can be misread or misinterpreted. And there are some things that really shouldn’t be left open to interpretation.
When my Yahoo News bulletin flashed up an article from SkyNews about a Japanese student who was arrested after driving for four miles with the body of an 80-year-old pensioner lodged in her car [...]
Big Brother…and Little Baldwin Brother
Friday, January 8th, 2010
As mentioned in previous blogs, I have recently moved flat. And in the process, unsubscribed to SKY Digital TV (2010 is all about saving…) which means for about two weeks I have been surviving on terrestrial televion. Which consequently means (and you’ll note it’s taken me a good five days to own up to this) [...]
We’re back!
Monday, January 4th, 2010
WHOOSH! (The sound of something hurtling past)
What was that?
Oh yes, that would be The Christmas Holidays.
Yes, we’re back! (Did you miss us?) We’re sitting here with the heating cranked up, sifting through the mass of emails in our inboxes and getting stuck into work again - in my case armed with copious amounts of highly [...]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
I moved house over the weekend and I now finally have a Christmas tree. It’s our last day in the office today and this evening will see me holding a bauble in one hand and a glass of mulled wine in the other - decorating my tree. It will be the perfect way to mark this new start [...]
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Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on your Plate, by Felicity Lawrence Chiara: What are we doing to our food?! A hard book for a foodie like me to read, but an important eye-opener.
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