Why is Young Adult Fiction pigeon-holed into a daftly narrow age category? If so-called General Fiction is a mirror held up to society which helps us to cope with what we are – how better to do this, than to look at ourselves while we are becoming what we are? But don’t worry, it’s not all serious. Or perhaps it all is, except for that last sentence. Hmmmm.
Who likes the social media ‘Like’? Nobody, that’s who. It would be like appreciating a poor phone line, or an alarm clock that worked at least every other Thursday. Some things are woefully inadequate, but we put up with them anyway. Please stop, and lend me your ears.
I am sick to the back teeth (ew) of people going on about ‘grip-lit’. Not the genre. The term. We can’t get rid of it. We can only try to outshine it. For that reason, Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you Wick-Lit, Flip-Lit and Crick-Lit. Go forth with them, and prosper.
Hardly anybody is achieving writing greatness in their 20s anymore. Why is this? Have we become complacent? Or is our arrested development entirely down to antibiotics, narcissism, and an inability to properly research an article making a grand sweeping statement?
Why do so many female comedians struggle to be taken funnily? Is your mother to blame? Do you like broad beans? And why is there an ‘X’ in First Person?
When we mourn famous people we’ve never met, we’re also mourning the people we once were. And that’s okay. Because there’s a lot of feeling wrapped up in all that.
The Secret Actress is currently writing anonymously for the Guardian newspaper about the stuff nobody will admit publicly in Hollywood. It’s time for The Secret Author to do the same for the writing community. Are you the next online Superhero?
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?
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