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This blog post is a very special holiday edition of 5-Bullet Friday, my very own email newsletter! This edition highlights 12 things I love, all of which make great holiday gifts. I dislike shopping, but I do love finding the perfect gift. Finding that gift, though, gets harder with time. Those damn adults seem to have everything. […]
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life. This time, we have a slightly different format, and […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Grump and Grumpier? Many of my ideas start with a “meet cute,” which in the case of this book, was actually a “meet scandalously!” I wanted to explore what would happen if my main character, Ana, gives in to her urges and behaves very […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Scarlet D? After writing my last book, Long Enough to Love You, I received much feedback that older, more mature women are underrepresented in romance. The story of second chances later in life seems rarely written about. The Scarlet D is a story […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Vendetta? I love gangster films and tv, and when I read the story about New York’s first mafia family I felt like it was a story that people would love to read and that I’d love to write. If you had to pick theme […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write In Love with the Devil? I like to read and write very dark stories to entertain and help survivors overcome trauma. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of In Love with the Devil, what would they be? “Game of […]
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Granite Bay Murder Club? I had an idea about telling a story from third-person view and not revealing the narrator’s gender or identity. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Granite Bay Murder Club, what would they […]
Faltas by Cecilia Gentili CW: rape, child abuse The subtitle of this memoir-in-letters is “Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist” and it perfectly captures Gentili’s unique tone. This is absolutely a heavy book. It’s about rape and sexual abuse and ongoing trauma. It’s also hilarious and juicy, full of campy humor, […]
I’ve always had lower back pain – I had surgery on a prolapsed disc at a young age. But in summer 2020 back pain was grinding me down. It was during covid so by the time I got an MRI the pain had subsided. The scan showed a shadow. I told myself this happens all the […]
Launch of David Simons new book to take place in Javea on November 27 Credit: David Simons A true creative, David gave up a career in law to travel and live a digital nomad existence. He found the confidence to become a writer in his forties and hasn’t looked back. Originally from Glasgow, David studied […]