by lauralizbuckley | 26 Oct, 2019 | Book Reviews
Jenny has her life together. She’s a successful professional, living in a great apartment—what’s not to be proud of? But Jenny has a secret, in the form of a second apartment full of things she can’t bear to get rid of. Jenny is a hoarder and, as she embarks upon a...
by lauralizbuckley | 22 Oct, 2019 | Writing
November is approaching fast, and while this month means many things to many people, to a certain section of the writing community it means it’s time to sharpen our pencils and charge our laptops for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Over the course of 30...
by lauralizbuckley | 19 Oct, 2019 | Book Reviews
Fleetwood Shuttleworth is seventeen years old and the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall. After three devastating stillbirths, while pregnant for the fourth time, she comes across a letter which reveals that she isn’t expected to survive another pregnancy. It seems like fate...
by lauralizbuckley | 15 Oct, 2019 | Writing
How to write descriptions your readers won’t want to skim… We know it when we see it. A character enters a room and spends paragraphs noting the location of each piece of furniture. Pages devoted only to describing every dish at a feast. The dreaded purple...
by lauralizbuckley | 12 Oct, 2019 | Book Reviews
Juliet never set out to be a spy, she just, sort of… fell into it. Surrounded by secrets, monitoring the movements of Fascist sympathisers, Juliet is glad to leave both the boredom and the fear of her wartime experiences behind her at the end of her years of work. A...
