Archive for April 6th, 2010

Chick Flick Tuesday highlights the best chick flicks in the movie world as well as bringing you news on upcoming chick flick releases as well as letting you all know about which chick lit books are being made into chick flick movies!

It’s ‘Chick Flick Tuesday’ again, and this week I’ve chosen the fab 13 Going On 30! I love this film because of it’s light-hearted story which turns into a great romance, the lovely Jennifer Garner in the lead role who is always fun to watch, and the fabulous soundtrack too. It’s a really fun watch, and one I don’t mind watching again and again which is good as it always seems to be on the telly! Have you seen 13 Going On 30? If so, did you like it?!

“Jenna, a frustrated teenage girl, just wants to skip past all those annoying adolescent years and arrive at a glamorous adulthood-and thanks to some inexplicable wishing dust, she does. But once she re-orients herself to a life as a high-end magazine editor with a sports-star boyfriend, she discovers that in the 17 years she skipped she became a not-so-nice person, including casting aside her best friend Matt.”

I’ve read and enjoyed both of Amanda Hearty’s two novels Are You Ready? and Positively Yours so I was pleased when Amanda agreed to do an author interview with us. Enjoy!

1. Could you please tell us about your latest novel Positively Yours.

Positively Yours is a book about three very different girls who all have one thing in common – they are pregnant. From high-flying stockbroker Beth, to child-obsessed Erin, and a very un-maternal Grace – these girls are all experiencing the biggest change in their lives. But life is not always what you expect – and pregnancy doesn’t just affect your appetite and clothes size! The girls begin to realize that relationships can become strained, work difficult and the pressure can take its toll. From the first pregnancy test, to the ante-natal classes, from the cravings to the labour ward, we learn how Beth, Grace and Erin all cope with and learn to enjoy their pregnancy.

This book is about relationships – with the three women’s partners or lack of them, and with the people who know them best, their parents. The three characters are very different and they have completely different stories, yet their experiences connect them – from coping with pregnancy cravings and increasing bumps, to surviving work and antenatal classes, to picking cots and baby names.

Pregnancy is a universal theme and all women at some stage think about pregnancy - whether it’s because they want to get pregnant, or don’t, or they just find out they are and have to deal with it. And there is nothing like being pregnant and having kids to completely change your life!

I began writing the book when I was seven months pregnant, so naturally it has a lot of me in it – from my pain au chocolat cravings, to my quest to find maternity clothes for someone as tall as me! I really enjoyed writing the book and from that first pregnancy test, to the birth of their new children – this book follows the characters’ journey and relationships as their whole lives change.

2. Are you working on book number three? Can you tell us anything about it?

I am working on a new book….but it secret! It’s secret by name and secret by nature!!!

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When the hardback cover for Harriet Evans’ latest book I RememberYou was released last year (right), I loved it and thought it was quite pretty. However, I’ve just laid my eyes on the paperback version and I LOVE IT!! I think it’s so understated and gorgeous, I’m definitely going to buy a copy as I haven’t read it yet. Which do you prefer? Here’s the synopsis:

“For Tess Tennant, spring brings the promise of a fresh start. She’s moving back to her picture-perfect home town to take up a teaching job. Langford is a place of pretty stone cottages, friendly locals in oak-beamed pubs and of course Adam, her best friend since childhood. But Adam is preoccupied with a new girlfriend, and the past - which Tess thought she’d put behind her - is looming large again.So by the time she has to take her class on a trip to Rome, Tess is feeling reckless. She is swept off her feet by a mysterious stranger, and finds herself falling in love. But her magical Roman Holiday is about to turn into a nightmare…Back in Langford Adam is gone and everything has changed.Tess has to decide, once and for all, where she belongs and with whom.”