The Best Thing I Never Had: The Official Soundtrack

Track 01 The White Stripes – We Are Gonna Be Friends We don’t notice any time pass | We don’t notice anything | We sit side by side in every class Track 02 Matchbox 20 – She’s So Mean I know a girl, she gets what she wants all the time | Cos she’s fine | But […]

Riverside Reads event, November 2015

  On Tuesday 24th November I joined lovelies Lucy Holliday, Eva Woods and Jessica Gilmore; The Sun books’ editor Natasha Harding, and a bevy of beautiful book-lovers who enjoyed copious wine (thanks again, Naked Wine!), mince-pies, swag-bags (I LOVE the new HarperImpulse pink totes!) and chat. Although I was (standard) pretty much rambling for most of it (I […]

Somewhere Only We Know: The Official Soundtrack

Track 01 Various Cruelties – Chemicals If it’s meant to be | The universe is gonna throw it back to me | Take a fear | Release it watch it burn up in the atmosphere | Just give up the ghost | And let it be | You know it doesn’t have to be a […]

Naughty or Nice? The HarperImpulse Christmas Anthology

Blog subscribers may remember I injected a little festivity into the summer by sharing the first two parts of NAUGHTY OR NICE?, a short story I was writing off a starting paragraph prompt alongside fourteen of my HarperImpulse colleagues. Well today you can get the whole anthology of fifteen stories for ABSOLUTELY FREE! Get your […]

Changes

It’s my great pleasure to offer the ninth and final instalment in ‘Changes’, a round-robin short story being written by Harper Impulse authors. One by one we have been adding a few hundred words to this sad but romantic tale. If you’re new to the story, use the links below to catch up, and I […]

His Way Home

It’s my great pleasure to offer Part 10 in ‘His Way Home’, a round-robin short story being written by Harper Impulse authors. One by one we have been adding a few hundred words to a story sparked by the picture below, and now here we are, the penultimate part! If you’re new to the story, […]