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My Birmingham University talk (video)

Last year I was invited to warble about my career at my old home-away-from-home, Birmingham University. The talk was called ‘Being a Cosmo Columnist and other stories’ and was about how I started in journalism, how I got the writing gigs I did and how I got my book deal. The good people who organised the shindig recorded theContinue reading “My Birmingham University talk (video)”

Cosmo blog: What you’re doing wrong on dates/in relationships/in life in general

Below is a blog post I wrote for Cosmopolitan during my stint as the magazine’s Sex and the Not So Single Girl columnist. It’s one of my faves so I thought I’d re-post it here. Hope you like. A succinct run-down on why any burgeoning romances (or friendships) are fizzling to nothing So you’ve met someoneContinue reading “Cosmo blog: What you’re doing wrong on dates/in relationships/in life in general”

Read features on the books in YOU, Stylist, Look, Cosmo, MSN and Huff Post

I’ve updated the books’ press page so now you can read all the features, articles and extracts that have been published on the series in the last month. Here I’ve selected some of my favourites that you might like to peruse – just click on the image and you’ll be redirected to a PDF or theContinue reading “Read features on the books in YOU, Stylist, Look, Cosmo, MSN and Huff Post”

My talk at Birmingham University

I am going to be speechifying at my old shuffling ground, Birmingham University, on the 26 October as part of their Book to the Future literary festival. You can catch me at 4.30pm talking about how I got started in writing, how I first got my job in magazines, who the best people I’ve everContinue reading “My talk at Birmingham University”