December 1st, 2009 by mholman
I thought I’d let you know that currently I’m writing the follow up, Sherry and Glenn’s story. Sherry is Lisa’s big sister and a cop, and Glenn is Dan’s younger brother who’s an ex pro-basketball player. They met at the airport at the end of Bonkers/EH and locked horns over an incident involving a golf bag and [...]
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November 30th, 2009 by mholman
I’m heading to Cromwell in the South Island this week to research two books and attend the Cromwell Festival and Cherry Pit Spitting Competition on Saturday, 5th December. I did not make the competition up – it’s real. There’s a prize for best man, woman, boy and girl spitter and a grand prize of tickets to another [...]
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November 1st, 2009 by mholman
MARK TAYLOR/Waikato Times
PART OF PARENTING: Cambridge author Michelle Holman discusses breast cancer and screening with her daughter believing it will equip her to make decisions about her health. //
Waikato author Michelle Holman considers what her breasts mean to her.
Buzzies, hooters, boobs, breasts. Considering they’re two inanimate objects composed mainly of fat, there’s [...]
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October 29th, 2009 by mholman
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October 22nd, 2009 by mholman
“High class chick lit, rollicking good fun and a very hard read to put down. High on my list of must-read novels.”
Wanganui Chronicle
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October 13th, 2009 by mholman
Yeehah! It’s on the shelves! Visible proof of a year’s work. I really love this book and hope you do too. I’m going to be busy doing publicity for the next week or so and might not be able to check my messages or blog but don’t let that put you off dropping me a [...]
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October 13th, 2009 by mholman
Hamish doing the introduction
Wrights Bookstore, Cambridge
Went off with a bang thanks as usual to the outstanding efforts of Hamish, Nicky, Annette and Marie at Wrights Bookstore in Cambridge. Nicky again outdid all expectations with her wonderful red invitations, Hamish delivered the intro to end all intros by managing to include bonkers, divine and knotted in [...]
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September 20th, 2009 by mholman
I want a wife. I still want to keep my husband – I’d just like a wife too. Why? Because I’d like somebody to do the laundry, housework and grocery shopping, have my dinner on the table when I get home at night, keep track of my socks and sympathise that I started having my [...]
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September 6th, 2009 by mholman
I had to for my next book. It was hard work but sacrifices have to be made. If you have a teenage son and want to get into his good books arrange to visit a luxury car dealership on a Teacher Only day and ask him to do the filming for your research. You will be the [...]
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August 31st, 2009 by mholman
It is – minus the stretch marks. You spend long months growing it and it gets really uncomfortable at the end when the time comes to birth it. Then you hand it over to the publisher (HarperCollins, in my case) who washes it, dresses it, feeds it and burps it so it looks like an [...]
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