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Write Your Own Book in 2010

By Milly Johnson - January 14, 2010

So, you're going to write a book are you? Is this the same book you've been intending to write for 10 years and never got around to? I see the excuses because I've been there, "I can never find time", "Once I get home I'm too tired", "What's the point? People like me don't get published". Stop blaming the agents you write to for not recognising your genius. Writers write,...

Here Come The Girls

By Milly Johnson - January 12, 2010

It's always a good moment when you have the title of your book set in stone, and I'm very lucky to have found the one for book 5 already. It's going to be called 'Here Come The Girls' and it's all about 4 women on a cruise ship sailing around the Adriatic for 17 days. I love cruising and everytime I come back from a holiday I intend to write a book about it, well this time I...

By Mary Hogan - January 8, 2010

Greetings from NYC, USA to all you Brits slogging through the snow. I feel your pain. We just got over a snowstorm. Best way to endure it: under a down comforter with a glass of wine and the remote. Trust me.

What kinds of writing did you do as a teen?

By Jennifer Echols - January 4, 2010

That's the question of the month at the MTV Books Blog. Come share your story!

A Christmas Poem from Barnsley

By Milly Johnson - December 23, 2009

A Very Merry Christmas to you all - here is a little poem from my home town, which I do believe Santa is very fond of. We don't leave him mince pies, we leave him pork ones with brown sauce and pies. I think this may have something to do with it. Best Wishes - Milly xxx Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse The...

CHANGE MEANS SACRIFICE

By Albert Clayton Gaulden - December 22, 2009

In the last few months I have been aware how authentic our President Barack Obama is. As he enters his second year he is putting a lot of us on notice that change is going to take sacrifice from all of us. It amazed me that there was so much negativity toward him around the deficit when he inherited the worst situation the country has been in since the Great Depression. What...

By Alex Wade - December 18, 2009

I've been suffering a bit lately from an unusual double whammy - cervical myelopathy (a serious and degenerative spinal condition) and Lyme disease. The former is the more worrying. I was diagnosed with it a few weeks ago and told that to go surfing was to risk paralysis. No wave is that good! However, I had a op yesterday which will hopefully see me back in the water, maybe...

My Reading Chair

By Richard Lewis - December 16, 2009

When I was a boy, this was my reading chair*. It was big enough and I was small enough for me to prop my legs up, feet on the edge of the seat and knees leaning against the arms, and get lost in a book. I read for hours and hours in this chair, ignoring the breeze calling me to play at the beach or the temple banyan, ignoring whatever my boring parents were doing, ignoring my...

Hibernating in my mind

By Jeremy Duns - December 15, 2009

I live in Stockholm, where the summer days stretch late into the night, but where in winter it starts to get dark at around 3 pm. Some days, it never seems to get light at all. I wake to take my children to school and it's pitch black, and over the course of the day the sky slowly turns to a twilight shade of dark grey, which it stays before turning black again. How...

'Tis the season

By Jennifer Echols - December 15, 2009

My holiday schedule is hectic in more ways than one. I am reading and writing a swath through my vacation! Do you read or write more at a certain time of year? Come share at the MTV Books Blog.

Christmas in Dixie...great song, great time

By Dianna Love - December 15, 2009

After being on the road pretty much all year, it's great to be home for the holidays and have time to visit with family and friends. We buy gifts for the little ones in our group, but when it comes to the adults I'm all about meeting for meals and catching up than spending a lot of time in the malls. The other treat is sitting in my writing room on rainy or chilly days and...

A Grand Night Out

By Milly Johnson - December 9, 2009

I was very lucky this year to be invited to the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool. Now for all the millions of times I've been to Blackie, I've never once been 'out for the evening' there. I've always been in a tee-shirt and a duffle coat (come on, it is the North!) So getting the long frock and diamante out was a real treat. And what a lovely night it was. Lights in the...

By Nick Lake - December 4, 2009

Absolutely no one at all has asked me who would win in a fight between Taro, the vampire ninja hero of BLOOD NINJA, and Edward, from those obscure, hard-to-find books by Stephenie Meyer. Which is a shame, because I could answer them very simply: Taro would win. Why? Dude is a NINJA. As we all know, thanks to the mine of valuable information that is the internet, a ninja can...

Just a reminder...

By Jennifer Echols - December 1, 2009

Next Saturday, December 5, I'll be signing books in the Birmingham area along with authors of adult romance Christy Reece, Debra Webb, and Peggy Webb, so these would be terrific events to drag your mom to. We'll be at the Books-A-Million in Fultondale from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the Books-A-Million at Brookwood Mall in Mountain Brook/Homewood from 3 to 5 p.m. I realized...

Come Dine with Me - yes ...ME!!!

By Milly Johnson - November 16, 2009

I've just had the most rock n roll week of my life. I've been filming 'Come Dine with Me' with complete strangers. It all started when a mailshot went out to the people of Barnsley and my friend forwarded it on to me. 'There is no way I would ever do anything like that. Not in a million years!' I said. But the brain is a crafty thing. It starts poking at your vanity. ...

By John Osborne - November 16, 2009

One of the best things of last twelve months is that I have been doing gigs as part of the poetry collective Aisle16. Aisle16 were formed in 2000 by poets Ross Sutherland and Luke Wright, and have toured the UK several times, appeared at Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading and Leeds festivals, as well as full runs at three Edinburgh fringes, most notably the show Poetry Boyband....

The First Adventure of the First Book

By Sarah Rees Brennan - November 9, 2009

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for. Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like JK Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art. Maybe with the occasional (very...

By Sarah Beth Durst - November 4, 2009

In ICE, Cassie journeys over the sea ice, across the tundra, and through the boreal forest. And today she has crossed the Atlantic Ocean! Today, ICE is coming out in the UK! I have very fond memories of the UK. After college, I lived for a year in Cambridge, England. My boyfriend (now husband) had a fellowship there, and I trailed along because, hey, England! Castles! ...

Neal Shusterman's Blog#1 - Dead and Breakfast

By Neal Shusterman - November 2, 2009

I spent two nights in the Haunted Mansion last month. No, really. It was bizarre. When I travel, I usually just go in for a Marriott, or Comfort Suites — you know the typical, predictable hotels that are so uniform, I can’t remember what city I’m in when I wake up in the morning. But every once in a while, I’ll go for a bed-and-breakfast. Especially when I’m...

Latest News, Views and Assorted Nonsense.

By Michael Dobbs - October 26, 2009

Hello! I try to keep my web site up to date, so if you're interested in the latest news, views, articles and broadcasts, I'd suggest you visit my web site, www.michaeldobbs.com, and click the NEWS tab. You can e-mail me from the CONTACT tab, too.

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