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Jo Bavington-Jones: “I met my agent on a dating site”

2020-01-14
By: Cathy
On: 14 January 2020
In: Author interviews

Reading Time: 5 minutes Jo Bavington-Jones is the author of two novels: Lucy Shaw’s Not Sure and Lucy Shaw Wants More, both published byContinue Reading

Guest Post: My Experience of Working With Illustrators, by Nik Perring

2014-04-29
By: Cathy
On: 29 April 2014
In: Author interviews

Reading Time: 4 minutes Collaborating with Kirsty for the cover of The Flash Mob was a nerve-wracking experience. Would we like it? We absolutelyContinue Reading

Book review on Words With Jam

2013-12-11
By: Cathy
On: 11 December 2013
In: Book reviews

Reading Time: < 1 minute I subscribe to the Words With Jam newsletter and when the editor asked for book reviewers, I thought, ‘aha, IContinue Reading

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran: Book Review

2012-05-12
By: Cathy
On: 12 May 2012
In: Book reviews

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Memoir of Masturbation, Menstruation and Music How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran I used to think CaitlinContinue Reading

Freaks! by Caroline Smailes and Nik Perring

2012-04-12
By: Cathy
On: 12 April 2012
In: Book reviews

Reading Time: 2 minutes She’s a busy girl, that Caroline Smailes. Her novel, 99 Reasons Why, was released last month and now she’s gotContinue Reading

99 Reasons Why by Caroline Smailes

2012-03-22
By: Cathy
On: 22 March 2012
In: Book reviews

Reading Time: 3 minutes 99 Reasons Why by Caroline Smailes doesn’t have an ending. It has 9 of them. To choose your ending onContinue Reading

Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

Review: Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

2009-12-08
By: Cathy
On: 8 December 2009
In: Book reviews

Reading Time: 3 minutes I read James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces quite a few years ago, long before The Smoking Gun outed himContinue Reading

Maidstone Book Club: Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller

2009-11-16
By: Cathy
On: 16 November 2009
In: Book reviews

Reading Time: 2 minutes After reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby for last month’s book club, this month we met up toContinue Reading

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Hello, I'm Cathy and I'm a writer, proofreader, editor and all-round word botherer but this blog is a collection of all sorts of stuff and there'll probably be stuff about cats and sewing as well as writing. Please believe me when I say my vocabulary does sometimes extend to words other than 'stuff'.

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