The Night Watch; The Magic Toyshop; The Girls; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; In the Company of the Courtesan; Alias Grace; Their Eyes Were Watching God; An Angel at My Table; The Women's Room; Valley of the Dolls; Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont; Peyton Place; The Vagina Monologues; Jane and Prudence; 84 Charing Cross Road; The Land of Spices; Gilead; Good Behaviour
Heroes
Sarah Waters; Daphne du Maurier; Sarah Dunant; Lori Lansens; Maya Angelou; Patti Smith; Margaret Atwood; Marilyn French; Nina Bawden; Linda Grant; Jenny Diski; Elizabeth Taylor; Angela Carter; Janet Frame; Barbara Pym; Willa Cather; Edith Wharton; Vita Sackville-West; Zora Neale Hurston; Michèle Roberts; Waris Dirie; Eve Ensler; Mukhtar Mai; Molly Keane; Kate O'Brien; Rosamond Lehmann; Pat Barker; Gillian Slovo
About me: Virago started publishing books by women, for everyone, back in 1973 and we are now the largest women's imprint in the world. Our authors include Margaret Atwood, Sarah Waters, Maya Angelou and Sarah Dunant. We also have a classics list - the Virago Modern Classics - which publishes a wide array of authors, including Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter,
Willa Cather
and Elizabeth Taylor - as well as popular classics such as 'Valley of the Dolls' and 'Peyton Place'.
Have a look at our blog to see all the latest - I will be providing news/author events/competitions/extracts/interviews/early reads/new acquisitions...all sorts of things. I'm aiming to give an inside perspective of publishing as well as keeping you up to date with author news.
If you'd like to see our website, it's www.virago.co.uk
THE FLEA has hatch'd again, and, pamper'd, swells — with verse by Peter Bloxsom, Catherine Chandler, David Davis, Ann Drysdale, Rhina P. Espaillat, Bill Greenwell, Clive James, Jalina Mhyana, Timothy Murphy, Alfred Nicol, Marly Youmans and Thomas Zimmerman. Go, read, be bytten!
It's the video for our new single, "BRIGITTE BARDOT", taken from our current album "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN".
It's our #1 download at iTunes and our most viewed clip on YouTube. It's been getting all kinds of airplay all over the world. Even the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer has been playing it on his show on KROQ-FM in L.A., as well as the video appearing on the NME's website.
If you don't already have a copy, you can download the single by clicking here:
On January 11th I’m beginning another interactive blog story and would love people to come and play. To get involved (go on, you know you want to!), please visit my blog ( :
hi teresa, did you know there's no need to put an apostrophe before your plurals, unless the object belongs to somebody? happy to help a fellow writer x
Hey, hope you had a great holiday season! Wanted to let you know Tigress by the Tail is up for an award at Preditor's & Editor's annual reader's awards! check it out! Vote for it, or your favorite Romance Novel. LIke Mysteries instead? Or Horror? P&E has categories for all your favorite genre's plus many reviewer and author assistance sites. Rate your favorite! One vote per "Customer". :) http://www. critters. org/predpoll/novelr. shtml Honor your favorite authors today!
My Christmas Wish For You I wish for you a life that’s full of joy, and for you to see the innocence and wonder in every girl and boy. I wish for you peace and happiness, each day throughout the year. I hope your mind is calm and at ease, and I hope you can cast aside your fears. I wish for you to have enough love to fill your heart, and I wish for you know it’s never to late to dream, it’s only to late if you never start.
I hope this Christmas is filled with blessings for you. Donna Webster
Have you been up Shit Creek yet? No? Then you'll want to submit poems to Shit Creek Review's 'History and Memory' themed issue, due online in February '09. Submissions need to be in by 1st December. And if you have been up the Creek before, well, naturally you'll want to do it all over again. See the Submissions page at http://www. shitcreekreview. com/ for explanations, details, email address, submission form, PayPal details for bribes, etc.
A reminder that The Chimaera, too, is open for submissions until 1st December. The theme is Light Verse, and British Poet John Whitworth (who edited The Faber Book of Blue Verse) is the guest editor for that section -- so lighten up! But you can also submit general prose and verse for our Open Slather section. Go to http://www. the-chimaera. com/ and you should find a Submissions page somewhere there without too much trouble.
OH MY LITERARY GOD!!! Really!? I have to email EVERYONE!!! Regardless of wether or not they read or know who Sarah Waters is (Im sure my Granny would find her work enlightening....ahem)
You made my ...... time until June! YEEEEEAAAH!!!!!
The first tme I read Fingersmith I was sitting on the bus whn I got to the twist (NOT GONNA SAY WHAT IT IS) and I actualy went "GASP!! Oh no she didnt!" really loud and people looked at me cause I was alone and looked crazy but DAMN IT SARAH WATERS IS AMAZING!!!!
Some people have nightmares about showing up to work naked.
Other people live them.
Servicing the Pole is the portrait of a New York stripper in the 1990’s – a battle-worn misfit slogging her way through the city’s roughest clubs, watching as the job replaces her personal life, and secretly harbouring rock star ambitions.
As the fast-paced night life’s deceptive promises of easy money gradually give way to the harsher realities of addiction and prostitution, Emily must decide – is this really the person she wants to be? And if so, at what price?
6823 hits, today last day of serialization like in the good old days while I wait for publishers to get back to my agent and say: ‘yes, oh yes’. Chapters posted to my blog with a link to my website, www. susanamedina. net
Click on image for chapter 20 ‘The ubiquitous lullaby’ …. & previous chapters & enjoy!
xxxxx margarite
