by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 17, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
On the door to my apartment is a little lever that any visitor who has made it through the security door at the front of my building can depress to let me know they’ve made it up the stairs after I’ve buzzed them in. It’s excruciatingly loud....
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 13, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
It’s been a Big Week in the Big Apple for Apple Girl. In the past seven days I have: 1. sold another book to Pan Macmillan Australia on behalf of my Bridge Literary Services client Sally Cooper, for her hilarious memoir of two years in Afghanistan – yes, a...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 11, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Last night I played host and tourist all at once, by having dinner at Tavern on the Green, a dining institution for more than 70 years, with friends of my parents who are visiting New York this week. Located just inside Central Park at 67th Street, the entrance to the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 10, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Thursday was an unusual but very interesting professional experience for me, when I was a film production assistant for the day. The film in question is a documentary by my client Simi Linton about war and disability, which is in the very early stages of its...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 9, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
It’s been difficult to avoid Paris Hilton. Cable news channels had constant coverage of yesterday’s bizarre events – in which Paris was released into home arrest wearing an electronic monitor, then taken before another court which ruled that she must...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 4, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
OK, I suspect some of you have too much time on your hands. Otherwise how to explain the 538 unique visitors to this website in the month of May alone? That’s just under 50 of you every day. Monday is the most popular day to visit (I see that coffee on the desk...