by Ali | Jul 25, 2014 | Reading
How Do Readers Choose YOUR Book From a Million Other Choices? The Story of a Book Purchase It’s Friday 20th June, and I’m going to the Winchester Writers’ Conference. I’m due to head off for a train in less than an hour and I’ve not finished...
by Ali | Apr 24, 2012 | Reading
If you’ve been following Aliventures for a while, you might remember that I published my novel Lycopolis back in November 2011. It’s been getting some lovely reviews on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, and I’ve decided it’s time to spread the word...
by Ali | Oct 24, 2011 | Reading
Image from Flickr by Poldavo (Alex) Computers are changing the way we read – and the way we write. Paper books and publications tend to belong to one reader (though some are held in libraries). They’re damaged by annotations (if someone scribbles on your...
by Ali | Oct 11, 2011 | Reading
I love books. Always have done. I could read before I started school (thanks to my mum!) – and I spent my childhood and early teens with my nose in a book. At university, I studied English literature for three wonderful years. And when I got married, we had our...
by Ali | Oct 4, 2011 | Reading
I’ve been back in England for a week, enjoying unseasonably warm weather! I had a wonderful time travelling round Europe with my husband, Paul. We went to: Bucharest and Brasov, in Romania Budapest in Hungary Vienna in Austria Venice and Rome in Italy We saw lots of...