On finding stories
I love meeting new people because I want to find out what their stories are, what brought them to this exact moment. I’m the person you don’t want to sit next to on a plane as I want you to lay your life and your soul out for my delectation. The more different your experiences are to mine, the more I want to gobble them up.
More Book Reviews from Evie!
This time we’ve got love, humour, secrets, family drama and the end of the world. Whether your heroine’s dad is a wannabe conservative Senator, or actually Death himself, these books have it covered. I loved them and hope you do too.
Behind the Scenes in Evie Land – February 2021
Find out what prompted me to leap naked into a freezing river at six thirty in the morning, why I was given a knife on Valentine’s day, and how many times I can write the word ‘hand’ in an 80,000 word novel. Yes folks, this month you’re in for a roller coaster ride, also featuring a live chicken trying to hop inside an oven, sunrise in PJs, and a bonafide Hot Mess. Read on, my friends...
Behind the Scenes in Evie Land – January 2021
Despite a lockdown, Joe Wicks, rabbit food and no alcohol I managed to do some amazing things this month! Read the highs and lows of a pretty intense few weeks in the Evie Alexander household!
What Evie has read recently
This time I’m switching it up! Three fabulous books for your delectation, but away from my traditional path of contemporary romance. All three have romance and humour, but one follows a penniless South African girl with a prodigious brain on her adventures via a nuclear bomb to saving the King of Sweden, one follows a spinster writing about her neighbours in the 1930s, and the other is set in Regency England and features a upper class lady and a gypsy.
All About The Good Bits
Have you ever read a romance novel and skipped to the, ahem, ‘good bits’? I know I have. Not only that, but I have a couple of books on my kindle that are so blisteringly hot that I often find myself re-reading these special pages. If you’re the kind of person who skips to the juicy parts of a romance novel, then I’m about to blow your minds and maybe some extra bits as well. Are you ready?
How to have a book spa
What is a book spa? I first came across this idea at a local independent bookshop ‘Mr B’s Emporium’ in Bath. They advertise ‘reading spas’ and I bought one for my mother as a birthday present. You go along, get plied with drink and cake, and discuss your favourite books with your ‘bibliotherapist’. They then hand you a massive stack of books and introduce them to you, whilst you sit back and relax.
On writers block
You know your characters, you love them, and then they turn their backs on you and give you the cold shoulder. Suddenly you no longer know what they’re going to say or do. Writer’s block is where you simply don’t know what is coming next in your story or how to get around a problem. So what to do? How can you get over writer’s block?
Evie’s latest favourite reads
My latest reads to share with you are a fabulously funny and sexy romance with a disabled heroine, a painfully sweet romance with a bucket of laughs about how to really live a life in the face of death, and a steamy hot tale of internet dating and learning to trust again. These were such wonderful books and I can’t wait to share my thoughts about them with you.
On confidence in writing
My writing career is a long road strewn with abandoned cars, bicycles, and the odd scooter. I was the queen of starting and then never finishing a piece of work, coming up with great ideas, only to abandon them. In terms of Belbin team roles, I’m a Resource Investigator, not a Completer Finisher.
