alison brodie

I love books. I collect them. What's wrong with that, huh? Nothing. But Hubby doesn’t agree. He’s “sick” of having to tiptoe through tottering towers of paperbacks to get from one side of the room to the other. Let me explain. I'm like cat woman. I don't mean the Cat Woman, I mean the elderly neighbour who takes in abandoned cats when nobody wants them. I'm like that with books. People who don't want them bring them to me. And I can't say no. I’ve read some fascin

Hello darlinks, I am Zenka, the fabulous star of ZENKA. Linda of Linda's Book Bag told Alison to write about me. Vy? Vy should Alison do this? It is ME who must write about ME. And this is vat I do now. I tell you. From beginning Alison make big mistakes. She has me as tiny voman in background, but I don’t like that and I tell her. So she make me a little bigger. But still it is not enough! How can she be so stupid? I am first class character vith sexy body. I d

My latest book, Zenka, has just been published on Amazon Kindle. Here is the Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36423193-zenka Let me tell you a little about it (remember, I am useless at writing a synopsis. I can write an 80K-word book, but four paragraphs? Hmm...) Okay, I'm about to give it a go: ZENKA is a black-comedy thriller set in gangland London at Christmas. "Do not vorry, Jack. Ven I am finished vith Nicholas, he vill be dogs bollocks just

I found this antique pamphlet "A Short Guide to Great Britain" published by the War and Navy Departments, Washington, D.C. This guide was issued to American servicemen during the Second World War. Read what it has to say about British women! "British Women At War. A British woman officer or non-commissioned officer can - and often does - give orders to a man private. The men obey smartly and know it is no shame. For British women have proven themselves in this war. Th

It has been scientifically proven that reading reduces stress by 68%. But how much MORE stress will be reduced if you read HUMOUR? I write humor, I read humor, I watch humour. Give me The Lucy Show over They Shoot Horses Don't They? anyday. I love reading something that makes me smile or laugh, and I am always on the lookout for my next chuckle, so when Time magazine plopped into my mailbox at the New Year, I was eager to see their “10 Best Novels” of the year. So I s

This New Year’s will be pretty uneventful for most of us, apart from drunken Uncle Billy reversing into the mailbox, or grandma getting cheeky with the hot new neighbour. But sweep your mind back sixteen years. Can you do that? If you can, you will remember the Y2K bug. When the US government was spending $150 billion preparing for Armageddon. When Hong Kong was stockpiling food. When English ladies were hoarding tins of Gentleman’s relish and turning their koi carp pon

5 TOP LIPS Where would romance be without lips? Lips are where the first spark flies, when the first thrill enters the nervous system. I’m pretty sure all my books have got lips in them; if not mentioned overtly then certainly they assume pole position on the faces of my characters. I was just thinking it was about time somebody took a closer look at lips, their role not just on a face but in the heart of romance. BTW: I’m not talking about just the TOP lip as my title

Do you have to stumble over discarded crap to get to your desk? Do you have to side-step the Step Master, skirt your pile of laundry and tip-toe through a maze of teetering books just to get to your laptop? Here are my 12 Top Tips that will shape you up and settle you down to a year of inspired good fortune. That’s right: I’ve scoured the wisdom of the ancients, the mysteries of the East and the ungoogled frontiers of science to bring you focus, energy, relaxation and good

If I had any fingernails left, I’d be chomping on them. If I hadn’t sworn off all my vices for the New Year, I’d be swimming in them. If I hadn’t set January 26 as the launch date of my new romance, THE DOUBLE, I’d be baking a cake, walking a dog, or at least taking a breather now and then. But this is it. This is the witching hour. The words are on the page. The years are in between the lines. The story is crouched in the birth canal. The midwives are hovering. At least wi

I write romance. To write romance you need to be in “the zone”; to be steeped in a world of pounding hearts and trembling limbs. You need silence, order and isolation. The only visitor you want is your muse. Let me explain by taking you back twelve months … * I was just coming to the climatic love scene THE DOUBLE. Aleksandr (a Ukrainian smuggler) and Beth (the beautiful stand-in for a rock-star-in-h