And I LOVE it. Hope you all do, too.
Interview with Novelicious
I owe the lovely people at Novelicious for forgetting to link to this interview until now.
If you’d like to read about me burbling on about Diary of an Unsmug Married, the authors who’ve most inspired me, and how I schedule my writing around my raging insomnia, just click the link below.
http://www.novelicious.com/2014/03/novelicious-chats-topolly-james.html
Writing tips, favourite books, dinner guests and more…
Forgot to post this until now, so am very embarrassed about the state of my memory, which is clearly even worse than I thought.
It’s an interview I did with “She Loves to Read”, in which I go on about various things including:
- My ideal dinner guests.
- The best writing advice I’ve ever been given.
- My favourite books.
You can read the full article by clicking here.
My top five writing tips, in Novelicious
The lovely people at Novelicious ran this piece ages ago – but, shamefully, I forgot to link to it ’til now. So, if you’d like to know what my top five tips for writing are, look no further.
Polly James’s Top Five Writing Tips – Novelicious.com | The Women’s Fiction Blog for Readers and Wrihttp://Polly James Top 5 Writing Tips
My new book…
I recently delivered the first draft of my second novel to my editor at HarperCollins, and – although the book won’t be published until 2016 – I won’t be lying around relaxing and ordering my husband to peel me grapes for the rest of this year. (He’d refuse to do it, anyway, but that doesn’t stop me fantasising.)
In reality, and instead of lounging about and peeling my own grapes, I’ll still be working on the book for most of 2015. That’s because delivery of a manuscript to your publisher is only the beginning of the process, and not the end.
Over the next few months, I’ll be editing the manuscript, and I’ll also be blogging about what happens to the book as it journeys from first draft to eventual publication. You’ll be able to read about what that involves in my blog on this website, along with a description of the nervous breakdown I’m bound to be having by then.
If you’d also like to read my original Mid-Wife Crisis blog, (the one on which my novel, “Diary of an Unsmug Married” was based), you can access that by clicking here.
Have I missed you out?
Please contact me if you’ve written a review of “Diary of an Unsmug Married” on your book blog, but it isn’t listed here. I’ll be happy to add it, if you send me the link.
Review of “Diary of an Unsmug Married” on Chick Lit Pad.
I loved Molly. Very relatable to all the mothers out there who feel they’ve lost some spark in their relationships, anyone with a super-annoying boss and husband and roughly all men in their lives being assholes. [Read more…]
Lighter Life Book Club review of “Diary”.
Diary of an Unsmug Married describes itself as “the story of real relationships”, and there’s certainly plenty of harsh reality thrown into the mix! [Read more…]
Chick Lit Central reviews the book.
Have you ever wondered what would have happened to Bridget Jones, if she married the love of her life, Mark Darcy? Settled down, had a couple of kids?
Wonder no longer. Read Diary of an Unsmug Married. [Read more…]
Review of “Diary of an Unsmug Married” in Novelicious.
“When I hear my daughter earnestly explaining oral sex to Aunty Edith – presumably unasked – I decide to see if I am able to tolerate gin again. Sometimes I think we should have Connie tested for Aspergers, but I’m not sure I’d really want to know the result.”
Five minutes after reading this paragraph, I managed to stop laughing and carry on reading. Well, for another two pages at least, until the next belly laugh. And so it went on.