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Archive for December 6th, 2010

Book Review: No Ordinary Girl by A. M. Goldsher

Posted on Monday, December 6th, 2010 by Chloe

Abbey Beynam has super powers. No really, she does. She is super strong, she can fly, she can read people’s minds and many more things that Abbey hasn’t even discovered about herself yet that choose to present themselves at the weirdest of times. Abbey chooses to hide her “weird stuff” (her name for her super-powers) from everyone except her direct family, but when her FBI employed boyfriend Murphy admits he knows about Abbey’s weird stuff and they want her to come and work for them, she suddenly becomes very unsure. She doesn’t want her powers to be widely known about, and she just wants a normal life…except for the occasional night time flight which she really rather enjoys.

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Author Article: Nell Dixon

Posted on Monday, December 6th, 2010 by Leah

Continuing on our Little Black Dress week, today we have the fab Nell Dixon telling us all about what it is that inspires the novels she writes! I loved her latest LBD adventure Just Look At Me Now and I’m looking forward to picking up her other novels! Take it away, Nell!

I’ve always loved reading, but although I can appreciate a ‘heavier’ book, I soon realised that the ones I loved the most were the ones with humour, love and a heroine whose feet were firmly planted in reality. I guess then that it’s no surprise that I’ve ended up writing the kind of books that I love to read. Little Black dress has proved a wonderful home for my kind of story, funny, sweet and romantic.

It’s sometimes quite difficult when you write romantic comedy to decide if what you’re writing simply makes you laugh or whether other people will share the humour with you. I worried about this a lot when I wrote Animal Instincts, the book that won Love Story of the year in March. I loved Dave, my foul mouthed parrot and my heroine’s ditsy but warm-hearted sister, Immi, but I wasn’t sure anyone else would. Luckily, for me readers did like them and I often get asked if I’m going to write a sequel.

Immi does make a brief appearance in my latest book, Just Look at Me Now, as do the Flying Monkeys rock band from Crystal Clear. For me the humour in a book should enhance the story and contrast with the sadder or darker elements of the plot. In Just Look at Me Now, Saffi, with her unladylike behaviour contrasts with Tia, who always has to be on her guard.

Readers often ask where I get my inspiration from. Anyone who has met my three teenage daughters and seen my slightly bonkers home life would know the answer to that question straight away. Especially if they saw me scribbling bits of storylines on the top of the cereal box or sticking a post-it note to my day job diary to remind me of a bright idea I got whilst ferrying my daughters to one of their many destinations.

Hopefully it all comes together when I find my scribbles and sit down in my office to finally write the story. Then I just have to hope that readers will enjoy reading about my characters as much as I enjoyed writing about them.

Visit Nell’s website here: http://www.nelldixon.com/home.aspx

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Little Black Dress Week: Launch and Amazing giveaway!

Posted on Monday, December 6th, 2010 by Chloe

Welcome to Little Black Dress Week! We are aiming to bring you everything that is Little Black Dress on chicklitreviews.com this week, and we hope you are going to enjoy just as much as we’ve had doing it! To kick it all off, we have an amazing prize courtesy of LBD publishers and the lovely Maura…in fact it’s quite obviously the ULTIMATE Little Black Dress prize, and we are so excited to be offering this to you!

You will win a copy of every single Little Black Dress book released in 2010… that’s an amazing 25 books! (In case you’re counting, there are 2 missing from the picture, but they’ll be in your prize!) All you have to do to get your hands on this simply fabulous prize is fill in the Google form below, and we’ll pick a winner at the end of the week using random.org.

Competition closes on Friday 10th December 2010 at midnight. Open to UK residents only. One entry per household. Please read our Terms and Conditions before you enter. GOOD LUCK!

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