Tim Roux's Blog – May 2009 Archive (3)

As a 54 year old man, I cannot say that I am exactly in the target market for this book which is written for 8 -15 year old girls, I would guess, and maybe their mothers.



I read it because I met the author Leila Rasheed in a local bookshop and volunteered to buy and read her two books (under no sales pressure whatsoever - in fact I think Leila was rather embarrassed and puzzled by my enthusiasm).



Not only am I a 54 year old… Continue

I wrote a part-review of Mel Nicolai’s ‘The Case’ which I thought was wittily appropriate for a book that was being released in part-work format on the SpeakWithoutInterruption site: http://www.speakwithoutinterruption.com/site/2009/04/mel-nicolais-the-case-a-view-from-the-first-empty-bottle/. Mel then sent me the entire… Continue

Whether you are an aspiring actress or a cold-blooded murderess, it pays to be consummate, to do your research for certainty, to distance yourself for clarity, to inhabit the character for persuasion, to deliver the punch line in one take, and to have acquired all these skills from a meticulous tutor at an impressionable age. As a murderess you only get one chance. As an actress you may only get one chance too. The only difference is that the ambitious actress will give her all for fame whereas… Continue