I was at a romance author party recently, and a publishing person told me she’d never read Fifty Shades of Grey. ‘Hang on a minute,’ I said. ‘Your job is to sell books, and you haven’t read the BESTSELLING book of all time?’ ‘I don’t see why I should fill my head with that rubbish’, she replied. Rubbish? Ha! SHE’D NEVER EVEN READ THE BOOK!! She didn’t get it. Fifty Shades of Grey is NOT rubbish. Not at all. It just doesn’t fit with some people’s template of a ‘worthy’ book. Y

Do you know these opening lines from famous novels? I wonder how many of these famous opening lines you know? I’m not showing off, but I knew ALL fifty. Oh okay, that’s a lie. I knew about twenty of them. I bet you can do better. As an author, I can tell you that first lines are EXTREMELY difficult to do. I have literally spend whole days on opening lines before – those few little words take a long time to get right! Also, I know a bookshop owner who judges EVERY book she buy

Famous Author Quotes to Uplift and Inspire Authors are extremely clever people. Probably the cleverest people on the planet. Did I mention that I’m an author? No? Well anyway. Clever, clever, clever. That’s what authors are. Oh okay, I’m not all that clever. I dropped my iPhone down the toilet this morning and left the house with my top on inside out. But other authors … they say such clever things! I’ve got together 50 of my favourite famous author quotes for you to ponder o