Archive for the ‘Asda’ Category
June 2, 2007 | Asda, Spirit Willing Flesh Weak, The Sun, free book
It’s there! In the Sun! On page 30! Next to a photo of a dog in a bullet-proof vest!
Life is a little surreal sometimes.
(photo to follow)
May 31, 2007 | Asda, Spirit Willing Flesh Weak, The Sun, free book
Okay, so my lovely editor has returned from her holidays and I’ve found out what happened with The Sun. Apparently there was some warehousing mix-up.
ANYWAY it’s going ahead this weekend, which I think means this Saturday 2 June there will be a free copy of Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak for every reader of The Sun!
Thank you everyone who bought The Sun, especially if you normally don’t. I hope you enjoyed it so much that you’ll rush right out and buy another one this weekend!
May 25, 2007 | Asda, Spirit Willing Flesh Weak, The Sun, free book
Sun tomorrow, Sun tomorrow, Sun tomorrow!!!!!
Whoo-hooooo!!!!!
(P.S. Love the six-word novels. It’s going to be hard to choose a winner. Please keep them coming!)
May 19, 2007 | Asda, The Sun, free book, six-word novel, social life?
Our local writing group, Reading Writers, is having a Writers’ Day today so Fecklet and I are going along. Workshops, speakers, and competitions, food and drink and conversation.
One of the competitions is to write an entire novel in six words. We’re putting them up and judging them anonymously. I’m assuming nobody from the group is going to check my blog before they go, so this is my entry:
No arms, no legs–five wives.
I think I’ll do a similar contest next week for a copy of All Work and No Play… so hone your short writing skills!
It will be the first time Fecklet’s eaten solid food in public. I’ve made him some apple puree for the occasion and I hope we don’t ruin the church hall.
It should be a good day.
Psst–Only ONE MORE WEEK until the Sun is giving away my book!!!
May 18, 2007 | Asda, The Sun, free book, reading
Finished the Capote while the Fecklet napped…very good indeed. Next on the list is either Mr Knightley’s Diary, by Amanda Grange, or She’ll Take It, a Little Black Dress by Mary Carter.
Fecklet squirms when he nurses these days, so I’m not doing as much reading as I’d like to, and when I do, it’s preferably a book I can hold in one hand. I read a big, hardback copy of Lisey’s Story by Stephen King last week and I nearly gave it up, because it was slow to start and the book was so darn big I had to do some engineering work with pillows in order to read it. I stuck with it, just because it was Stephen King and I would read the phone book if Stephen King wrote it, but it was a struggle.
It was a mixed bag, as most of Stephen King’s recent books have been for me: I was completely gripped, I loved the thoroughness of his worldbuilding, and I liked very much the insight into how he sees a writer’s life (the heroine is the widow of a famous writer). But the character motivations were a little bit weak at a key point; the heroine’s sister, who was meant to provide a lot of motivation, was sloppily drawn; and the ending was slightly damp.
I wholeheartedly love some King books: Carrie, The Shining, The Talisman and Black House, and Misery which I love, love, love. And the rest of his books linger in my mind for a long time. So I’ll always read a book of his, even if it’s not portable.
On another topic, there are only eight more days until The Sun and Asda are giving away Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak, FREE!
May 12, 2007 | Asda, Spirit Willing Flesh Weak, The Sun, free book
Two weeks from today, on Saturday 26 May, the Sun newspaper will be giving away a FREE COPY of my book Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak, to every reader.
I think they’re printing a voucher in the paper and if you go along to Asda you can pick up your free copy.
FREE!!
I’m very very excited about this and will be posting regular reminders.
