To celebrate the release of his new book No Exit, Taylor Adams tells us a little bit more about himself. Her name is Clementine, she weighs 5 pounds, and she’s ...
They say that desperation is the mother of all…well, bizarre schemes. Sometimes, people get so desperate they start hatching wild plots, in both love and business. Ask any entrepreneur and ...
Eggs score high on a scale called the ‘satiety index’ which measures the ability of foods to induce feelings of fullness and reduce subsequent calorie intake thanks to their richness ...
I began writing in 2007 whilst on a break from acting. I wrote a play called Save Your Kisses For Me, which included the Brotherhood Of Man’s Eurovision-winning song. It ...
I never thought I’d get published. I grew up thinking that ‘people like me don’t become writers’. I work best at night. I like to work when it’s dark and ...
It’s the Conscious Feminine! Women often ask me ‘What is the Feminine?’ The Feminine is an equal and opposite reality to the Masculine but it’s not represented as such within ...
Spark Joy is the second book by Marie Kondo and goes more in depth into one of her key concepts- sparking joy. In other words, everything you own should give ...
I was born in Hungary during the Communist era. I still have old black and white photographs of myself playing in my grandparents' apartment in Budapest, where they had moved ...
I love spending time alone. Lots of people I know tell me that they hate being by themselves, but it's something I really value and need. I love and adore ...
I served a Police Officer for 30 years, most of which was spent as a detective in the inner -city areas of Liverpool. From a cultural point of view, I ...
Want to know where to find a vast collection of vintage Yves Saint Laurent? Or to know where Winston Churchill bought his cigars? Ask a Londoner. There is no population ...
People often hear the phrase ‘self love’ and cringe. I want to change that. Self-love is a huge part of a healthy mindset. How can you expect to care for ...
I have loved writing about sibling tension in my new novel, This Family of Things, and here are my favourite fictional siblings (in no particular order) whose stories I have ...
In 2010 I wrote a historical romance novel about a handsome Victorian English Vampire Lord. I really enjoyed writing about his exploits and I have to confess I rather fell ...
What makes a character likable? I’m probably the wrong person to ask, because as a reader, I abided Humbert Humbert’s sick fascination with little girls, Raskolnikov’s homicidal mania, and Holden ...
Upon the release of her new novel Among the Branded, author Linda Smolkin tells us a little more about the woman behind the book. One of my best life experiences ...
When people find out I’m a writer, they say often say, “I’d love to write if I had the time/discipline/talent. I have a story/a million stories/a great idea.” While I’d ...
I have a strange accent. Born in London, raised in Vancouver, I hardly know how words will come out until I say them. In Canada, people claim I have a ...
Most of us find ourselves hustling at work for that next promotion or raise. But there are plenty of people with an impressive job title and large bank account balance ...
It’s morning. It’s daylight. The clock says three a.m. I roll over in bed my mind buzzing. I’ve got a scene from my book in my head. There’s something there ...
Last week, as I copy edited my next novel, coffee beckoned. I sprang up, caught my foot, whacked into the kitchen arch. Crash. Came ‘to’ unable to move - one ...
