#booksthatimpact

[author-mathomas]

Rest in peace Judith! Thank you for so many interesting and highly entertaining works. With over 80 million sales you've left one hell of a mark on this world :) The books Krantz wrote were similar to Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins, and I'm my opinion helped break taboos about women and sex — and about women writing about sex. Her work boomed in a pre-“Fifty Shades of Grey” world despite many publishers turning her down for being too unbelievable in her fiction. What? “They’ve done everything but tattoo a ‘P’ for Pornographer on my chest,” Ms. Krantz once said of the publishing industry but I for one am GLAD she kept shamelessly plugging along! #bookstagram #booksthatimpact #sexsells #judithkrantz #foreverawriter https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJfBl-A0LD/?igshid=l0hd5zv5q6sf

[author-mathomas]

Bookstagram post for FriYAY! Written by #drewdavies **slow start but worth it by the end. Dear Lily, It's me, Joy, your much wiser and (very slightly) older sister. I thought I'd start a new tradition of letter writing - now that we're long distance. On the plane over here, I began to cry in seat 21C. I think the magnitude of it finally hit me, after everything that happened... I haven't even unpacked yet - the only thing I've taken out of my suitcase is Harville, your beloved childhood teddy. Sorry for stealing him, but I need him more than you do. Every time I look at that little brown bear I think about our childhood. Remember that dance we made up to Annie's 'It's a Hard Knock Life'? (Remember the broom choreography?) I'm also sorry for abandoning you - I've always been your agony aunt, and a buffer in your infamous shouting matches with Mum. But I had to leave, Lily, I had to. Anyway, I'm here now. I'm here to start over, and to face up to the past. I want to learn to laugh again, and to find someone to love who will maybe even love me back. You always told me I was just getting by, not actually living, so I'm finally doing it. Wish me luck, little sister. Love, Joy x A beautiful book-club read for anyone who has ever hit rock bottom, longed for a fresh start, or needed to heal a broken, aching heart. #booksandwineweekend #booksthatimpact #bookstagram #TheBookReviewProject #amreading #amediting #amprocrastinating #authormathomas https://www.instagram.com/p/Byqc0BigvgF/?igshid=1m53owgfnlj4a

[author-mathomas]

Post Twenty-Five for the #WIPandme prompt challenge. What book made you a writer? Such a loaded question... A love of books made me a writer, but novels like this one by Phoebe Gloeckner and similar diary style books such as So Much To Tell You and The Bride Stripped Bare helped me realise I could publish the things I've written as well, that people would enjoy this sort of contemporary art. That by doing so I would connect with the other humans I share this wonderful planet with in new ways. Ways that previously I'd only ever dreamed of. #booksthatimpact #whyiwrite #authorinspiration #NikkiGemmel #phoebegloeckner #johnmarsden #maywritingprompts https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3uV3NgyuL/?igshid=q3j3ged4c18s