Tag: Chocolate

  • Variety is the spice of life

    I have been writing like a demon this week. Deadlines are rushing towards me with the speed (and I fear the impact) of comets, so I have been bum-on-seat to hit word targets, sustained by chocolate when necessary. This approach works, but it can also be wasteful (and unnecessarily like to cause Type II diabetes).…

  • It’s all a matter of taste…

    The thing that fascinates me most (maybe – books are endlessly fascinating) is the question of taste. I’ve lost count of the number of award-winning, rave-reviewed books that I’ve thrown across the room. Whatever the award judges found in the book eluded me entirely. Meanwhile, books that I love and praise to the skies and…