There are too many women crying in fiction. You can’t move in film and TV for women in floods of tears. Who is writing the crying woman? And how can we make it stop?
Just Save Me From The Fictional Crying Woman
Tark And Mara Kill All The Bunnies
Tark and Mara go to a ruinously expensive restaurant, and decry the hideous cutesiness of Easter. Lambs, chocolate and children are all in the firing line – but it’s the bunnies that get it.
Pairing Your Book To Your Overall Look: A Fashion Special
You just can’t beat the popularity of the fashion or beauty blog, so today, I’m joining their ranks with my Essential Guide To Wearing Your Fave Books This Season. What should you wear while reading Crime Fiction? And why do Literary Fiction and Louis Vuitton not mix?
In Defence Of Crappy Television
How are you watching TV these days? Are you giving it your full attention? Half? A third? Two-ninths? Isn’t there a lot to be said for TV you can watch without having to watch it?
Why You Should Never Live With An Unreliable Narrator
We all know what it’s like to have difficult flatmates. Insomniacs. Musicians. Drug Addicts. Botanists. When things get really sour, a fictional flatmate would be ideal. But what if you were to live with a modern grip-lit heroine from the likes of Girl On The Train, Gone Girl, or Before I Go To Sleep?
Isn’t Internet Piracy Just Awful? Well, No. Not Really
On what online piracy really means for authors and musicians; and why it’s all really the fault of Big Tobacco.
Dissecting The Blurb Part 3: Short Stories, Self-Help And Literary Fiction
In the third and final part of ‘what the hell is a book blurb and how am I supposed to write one’, we explore the genres of Short Stories – from both famous and less famous authors; Self-Help, and Literary Fiction. Sort of.
Dissecting The Blurb Part 2: Crime, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy
In the second part of ‘what the hell is a book blurb and how am I supposed to write one’, we explore the genres of Crime, Historical Fiction, and Science Fiction/Fantasy. Sort of.
Dissecting The Blurb: It’s A Formula, Not A Torture Instrument
What is a book blurb and how the hell do you write one? Is there a magic formula? Well, as it happens, there kind of is. And I’m sort of going to give it to you.
10 Classic Novels Marketed As If They Had Been Written By Women
How would some of the world’s best-loved classic novels have been marketed if they’d been written by women? Might their blurbs have read differently, or other themes have been pushed forward? I don’t know. But I’m going to make jokes about it all the same.
Tara Sparling writes 