I HAVE SOLD BOOKS, WRITTEN BOOKS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, PUBLISHED BOOKS, STUDIED BOOKS, COVETED BOOKS, VANDALISED BOOKS (THOUGH, I WAS ONLY TWO YEARS OLD AT THE TIME: HAVING BEEN LET LOOSE WITH CRAYONS), GIVEN PUBLIC TALKS ABOUT BOOKS, BOUGHT BOOKS (I PAID 400 FRENCH FRANKS ONCE - £40.00 - FOR A BOOK IN FRENCH TEXT THAT I CANNOT READ), DESIGNED BOOKS AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, I OWN A BUSINESS ABOUT BOOKS ... YET, BOOKISH THOUGH I MAY BE ... NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A BLONDE WITH A PEN!
My favourite things are books, pets and houses. I once owned a publishing company called Pumpkin Press and now own a cleaning business called House Proud. I am a published author of two books and have edited a third. I have a degree in English. I continue to write.
Helen Fielding creator of Bridgit Jones: is a millionaire and spends most of her time in California.
Brigitte Bardot turned the misery of fame into a masterpiece of achievement towards animal welfare.
Marilyn Monroe (below) herself a genius of creation, married a bookish sort, playwrite Arthur Miller.Tribute Blog.
Sarah Beeny property speculator, t.v. presenter and serial entrepreneur. She says of her own home, It must be filled with old sofas and have piles of dogs and cats.
Aim to get the first line of your novel right: It's your first impression.
Conrad Harrison found the last home he would ever know, by driving the wrong way out of Chicago with a ghost in the car. The Birthing House, Christopher Ransom
Noon. London: my flat. Ugh. Bridgit Jones Diary, Helen Fielding
In olden times when wishing still helped one ... Frog King, Brothers Grimm
All children, except one, grow up. Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
The story that is worth telling ends two years before I was born. Witch's Blood, William Blain (is actually the 2nd para)
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
They were not railway children to begin with. The Railway Children, E. Nesbit
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith