Woo, what a great night! I'm still grinning from ear to ear. Today was the book signing so, as soon as ethnology ended at 5, I sped down the road to the east end of Princes Street (taking the shortcut past the art gallery) to Waterstones as fast as the crowds would let me move. I had my book and ticket in hand, afraid of losing them both. Luckily ( Read more... )

Ohh what an excellent question! So many choices. It would be a close call between two characters - Westley from The Princess Bride, or Harry Dresden from The Dresden Files. Westley is the Errol-Flynn style hero, ready to jump to the rescue and fight everything, from rodents of unusual sizes to death itself! He'd be very handy on a desert island, ( Read more... )

I have never been able to curb my book buying cravings. I can't even walk past a bookshop without thinking "Maybe just 5 minutes" which then descends into an hour of browsing before buying something which will no doubt gather dust until I somehow find the time to read it. My To Be Read pile is obscene. It's a combination of classics, modern ( Read more... )

I must admit that vampire literature is one of my true guilty pleasures. You name it, I'm reading it. I've just been sent a lovely hardback copy of Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer to read. They appeal more to my fantasy obsessed brain. I love anything paranormal to be honest. The change scene in An American Werewolf in London scared the living daylights ( Read more... )

Every writer's got one, just like an addiction to a caffeinated drink or a tendancy to delay everything. I don't know how much my love for other writers shines through in my own work but they're always in the back of my head convincing me to push ahead with whatever weird thing I'm scribbling down. Right now, on top of my screen-play I'm writing a ( Read more... )