by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 28, 2009 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Illustration by Richard Tuschman The New York Times ran an interesting article yesterday about the current prevalence of dreams about homes. The article, “The House of Your Dreams”, claimed that “Americans aren’t just living the real estate...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 25, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
My memoir, The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement, is now available in paperback (in Australia). It has been included in the 2009 Books Alive! campaign, which means the cover features a sticker declaring it to be “One of the 50 Books You Can’t...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 5, 2009 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
I am sitting on a fold-out chair in front of a small rattan chest of drawers that’s doubling as my writing desk, on which my workhorse laptop wobbles. This is what happens when you denude your home of six years of its contents, put almost all of it into storage,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 5, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Talk about a long time coming – my pal Derek Van Gieson, the wittiest dude in Prospect Heights*, has broken through into the artistic cumulous and has a credit on The New Yorker website, in their online “cartoon lounge”. For some time now he’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 1, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Today marks the end of official publicity for my The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement. At almost four months since publication, that’s a media marathon for a first-time author, so I’m not complaining. It is a relief, however, to know I...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 9, 2008 | Blog, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Recently I was asked by a well-meaning chap at a writers festival if my recently published book was about interior decorating. I smiled, told him he was about to be a little bit embarrassed, and explained what it was all about. It is for his benefit that I have chosen...