"Shopaholic (novels) Shopaholic is a series of novels written by the UK author Sophie Kinsella, who also writes under her real name Madeleine Wickham. The books follow protagonist Rebecca Bloomwood through her adventures in shopping and life. As of October 2015, there are eight books in the series. The entire series has been optioned by a Hollywood studio. The first Shopaholic film was released February 13, 2009. Shopaholic is also a series of games. The first ""Shopaholic"" film, ""Confessions of a Shopaholic"", was released on February 13, 2009 and was based on the first and second books. It is directed"
"the series. A film adaptation of the novels starring Isla Fisher as Becky Bloomwood, Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon, and Krysten Ritter as Suze was released on 13 February 2009. The film focused on some plots, while eliminating others to make room for the 2nd novel's plot Shopaholic Abroad. The Shopaholic series as of October, 2014 consists of seven novels, in order: The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000) (Confessions of a Shopaholic in the United States and India) is the first in the popular Shopaholic series. It is a chick-lit novel by Sophie"
"DVDs, gift cards, cosmetics, jewelry, multivitamins, pregnancy tests, electric toothbrushes and clothing. In the United States, frequently shoplifted books include ones by authors Charles Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Georges Bataille, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Raymond Chandler, Michel Foucault, Dashiell Hammett, Jack Kerouac and other Beat generation writers, Jeanette Winterson, Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Mark Z. Danielewski. ""(See Book store shoplifting.)"" Economists say shoplifting is common because it is a relatively unskilled crime with low entry barriers that can be fitted into a normal lifestyle. People"
"Becky Bloomwood Rebecca Jane 'Becky' Brandon (née Bloomwood) is a fictional character and the main protagonist from the Shopaholic series of novels by British author Sophie Kinsella. Becky grew up in Oxshott, Surrey with her Mum and Dad. After attending Bristol University, she moved to London. She first lived with her best friend Susan ""Suze"" Cleath-Stuart before she eventually moved to New York City. Prior to moving to New York, she worked as a personal finance expert on a breakfast television program called 'Morning Coffee'. Becky met her future husband, Luke Brandon, CEO of Brandon Communications (a Public Relations firm)"
"company Stampin’ Up! UK and the cards were auctioned on eBay during May 2014. E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", along with the companion novels """" and """"; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction ""Master of the Universe"" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies"
"popular Shopaholic novels by British author Sophie Kinsella, as the hometown of the series' narrator, Becky Bloomwood. A greater part of the historic novel ""Unter der Asche"" (Beneath the ashes) by German author Tom Finnek is set in Oxshott and nearby Cobham. The novel deals with the Great Fire of London 1665–66 and the so-called ""Diggers"", a nonconformist dissenting group during the English Civil War. Some scenes from the Monty Python feature film ""Jabberwocky"" (1977) were filmed in Oxshott Woods. In the 1970s ITV situation comedy ""George and Mildred"", Mildred's brother-in-law Humphrey is described as ""the offal king of Oxshott""."
"in December 2005. She currently lives in New York City, where she works as a writing coach and runs the ""Elizabeth's Workshops"" writing school. Elizabeth Merrick Elizabeth Merrick (born 1973) is an American author, best known as the founder and director of the ""Grace Reading Series"" and as editor of the Random House anthology ""This is not chick lit"". Merrick received a BA from Yale University, an MFA from Cornell University, and an MA in Creativity and Art Education from San Francisco State University. She has taught at New York University and Cornell and has received fellowships from the Saltonstall"
"Shopgirl (novella) Shopgirl is a 2000 novella written by Steve Martin. Martin adapted his book for a 2005 film of the same title. Its titular character is 28-year-old Mirabelle Buttersfield, a lonely, depressed Vermont transplant who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She moved to California in an attempt to find herself and fall in love but instead takes medication to fight off depression. Much to her chagrin, she is pursued by Jeremy, a socially inept and unambitious slacker and roadie for a"
"Elizabeth Merrick Elizabeth Merrick (born 1973) is an American author, best known as the founder and director of the ""Grace Reading Series"" and as editor of the Random House anthology ""This is not chick lit"". Merrick received a BA from Yale University, an MFA from Cornell University, and an MA in Creativity and Art Education from San Francisco State University. She has taught at New York University and Cornell and has received fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, and VCCA. Merrick is also responsible for the independent publishing house Demimonde Books, which published ""Girly"", Merrick’s first novel, released"
"of copulation, and ""Burgering"", referring to the act of voiding one's bowels (referring to Chief Justice of the United States from 1969–1986, Warren E. Burger), etc. Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy is a trilogy of novels by American writer Robert Anton Wilson consisting of The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons, each illustrating a different interpretation of quantum physics. Wilson is also co-author of ""The Illuminatus! Trilogy"", and ""Schrödinger's Cat"" is a sequel of sorts, re-using several of the same characters and carrying on many of the themes of the earlier work. The"
"obsession with shopping and its resulting complications for her life. The first two ""Shopaholic"" books were adapted into a film and released in February 2009. The most recent addition to the ""Shopaholic"" series, ""Shopaholic to the Rescue"" was released on 22 October 2015. Her most recent standalone novels are ""My Not So Perfect Life"" and ""Surprise Me"". In 2015, she branched into Young Adult writing with her first YA book, ""Finding Audrey"", published in June 2015. A musical adaptation of Kinsella's novel 'Sleeping Arrangements' by Chris Burgess was premiered on 17 April 2013 in London at the Landor Theatre. Wickham"
"The Chicken House The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by Scholastic Corporation, specialising in children's fiction. Founded in 2000 by Barry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman as Chicken House Publishing, it was bought by Scholastic in 2005. It has introduced many new successful authors, including Cornelia Funke, Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, Kevin Brooks, Lucy Christopher, Rachel Ward, M. G. Leonard and Rachel Grinti. It is the UK publisher of the multi-million bestselling Maze Runner series. The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition was launched in 2008 by Chicken House and ""The Times"" newspaper. The annual competition is for full"
"novels, including ""Look Again"" and ""Don't Go"", both which reached number two on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. she has served as President of the Mystery Writers of America and won many other honors. Her novels have been translated into 30 languages and she has 30 million copies in print. Since March 2007, Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella have been writing the ""Chick Wit"" column for ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"". A collection of those humorous nonfiction columns has been published in a series of bestselling books co-written with her daughter Francesca Serritella, the first of which is entitled"
"published a defense of Cline in June 2016 regarding his eviction. Edward Cline Edward Cline (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his ""Sparrowhawk"" series of novels, which are set in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. His other fiction includes a suspense series (featuring American entrepreneur Merritt Fury), a contemporary detective series (featuring Chess Hanrahan, who solves paradoxical murders), and a period detective series (featuring Cyrus Skeen in 1920s San Francisco). Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on aesthetics, his defenses"
"Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further ""research"" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger"
"R. L. Stine Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor. Stine has been referred to as the ""Stephen King of children's literature"" and is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the ""Fear Street"", ""Goosebumps"", ""Rotten School,"" ""Mostly Ghostly,"" and ""The Nightmare Room"" series. Some of his other works include a ""Space Cadets"" trilogy, two ""Hark"" gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. As of 2008, Stine's books have sold over 400 million"
"entirely to chick lit. Chick lit critics generally agreed that British author Catherine Alliott's ""The Old Girl Network (1994)"" was the start of the chick lit genre and the inspiration for Helen Fielding's ""Bridget Jones's Diary"" (1996) which was wildly popular and is the ""ur-text"" of chick lit. ""Chick"" is American slang for a young woman, and ""lit"" is a shortened form of the word ""literature"". Chick lit scholars note that the term was first used ironically in 1995 by Cris Mazza and Jeffrey DeShell as the title for their edited anthology ""Chick Lit: Postfeminist Fiction"", which contains 22 short"
"William Thomas Quick William Thomas ""Bill"" Quick (born 1946), who sometimes writes under the pseudonym Margaret Allan, is a science fiction author and self-described libertarian conservative blogger. Quick is the author of 28 novels, the most famous of which is the cyberpunk ""Dreams of Flesh and Sand"", and co-authored a six-novel series with William Shatner. Quick runs the conservative blog ""Daily Pundit"". Quick is originally from Indiana and now lives in Hunters Point, San Francisco, California. He attended The Hill School as a member of the class of 1964 but did not graduate. Quick is the author of 28 novels,"
"E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", along with the companion novels """" and """"; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction ""Master of the Universe"" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies in the United States and set the record in the United Kingdom as the"
"Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy is a trilogy of novels by American writer Robert Anton Wilson consisting of The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons, each illustrating a different interpretation of quantum physics. Wilson is also co-author of ""The Illuminatus! Trilogy"", and ""Schrödinger's Cat"" is a sequel of sorts, re-using several of the same characters and carrying on many of the themes of the earlier work. The one-volume edition currently in print is significantly shorter than the original three-volume edition. This is not a difference in print size or removal of redundant ""recaps"";"
"Dark in the ""Publishers Weekly"". Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky in his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. His best known work is the ""Shadows of the Apt"" series. Adrian's novel Children of Time won the 30th Arthur C. Clarke Award on August 24, 2016 at a ceremony in London and was described by author James Lovegrove as ""superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio"". Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. He studied Zoology and Psychology at the University of Reading. He then qualified as"
"She also wrote the ""Diary of a Smiling Cat"" series starting in 2006, targeting children between seven and nine years old. By 2013, she had written 18 books which sold 20 million copies. HarperCollins has acquired rights to translate her works into other languages. As of 2010, it had translated six books from the Mo's Mischief series into English and sold 200,000 copies of them. Diary of a Smiling Cat series (the translations below are approximate) Yang Hongying Yang Hongying (born 1962) is a best-selling Chinese writer of children's fiction, who has been called ""China's J. K. Rowling."" As of"
"Foreign editions include a Norwegian edition (Cappelen Damm) translated by Audun Mortensen, and forthcoming Spanish (Alpha Decay) and French (Au Diable Vauvert) editions. Shoplifting from American Apparel Shoplifting from American Apparel is Tao Lin's first novella, fifth book, and first published fiction since the May 15, 2007 simultaneous publication of his debut novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee, and debut story-collection, Bed. ""Shoplifting"" is based on a short story first published in Vice Magazine's second annual fiction issue. The book is a largely autobiographical slice-of-life about a young aspiring author and occasional shoplifter named Sam. ""Shoplifting"" was published September 15, 2009 by"
"Edward Cline Edward Cline (born 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and essayist. He is best known for his ""Sparrowhawk"" series of novels, which are set in England and Virginia before the American Revolutionary War. His other fiction includes a suspense series (featuring American entrepreneur Merritt Fury), a contemporary detective series (featuring Chess Hanrahan, who solves paradoxical murders), and a period detective series (featuring Cyrus Skeen in 1920s San Francisco). Outside of his work as a novelist, Cline is known for his writings on aesthetics, his defenses of capitalism and of free speech, and his criticisms of contemporary"
"(Mm) (March, 1991)<br> <br> Safelight<br> Publisher: Signet Books (December, 1992)<br> To Touch a Dream<br> Publisher: Harlequin (February 1, 1983)<br> <br> A Moment of Magic<br> Publisher: Harlequin (January 1, 1984)<br> <br> Song of the Seabird<br> Publisher: Harlequin (December 1, 1984)<br> <br> Windward Passage<br> Publisher: Harlequin (June 1, 1985)<br> Linda Crockett Linda Crockett (born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), is an American author and teacher, best known for her horror, romance, and psychological thrillers. Linda Crockett published over a dozen books which were translated into as many languages, under the pen names Linda Crockett, Linda Crockett Gray, Linda C. Gray, and Christina Crockett."
"Best Novel for ""Survivor"" and for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for ""Lullaby"" in 2002 and for ""Haunted"" in 2005. Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel ""Fight Club"", which also was made into a popular film of the same name. Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was Ukrainian and migrated to New York"
"Schuster/Shadow Mountain Publishing ""The Creature from My Closet"" Series—Macmillan Publishing ""Pillage"" Trilogy—Shadow Mountain Publishing ""Beyond Foo""—Shadow Mountain Publishing ""Witherwood Reform School"" (Macmillan Publishing) ""Geeked Up""—Macmillan Publishing ""Mutant Bunny Island""—Harper Collins ""Wizard For Hire""–Shadow Mountain Publishing Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the"
"Jane Eaton Hamilton Jane Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. Hamilton has published the novel ""Weekend"" (Arsenal Pulp Press 2016), three books of poetry, ""Body Rain"" (Brick Books 1992) and ""Steam-Cleaning Love"" (Brick Books 1993), ""Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes"" (Caitlin Press, 2014), a poetry chapbook (""Going Santa Fe"", winner of the League of Canadian Poets Poetry Chapbook prize) and two volumes of short fiction ""July Nights and Other Stories"", (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) and ""Hunger"", (Oberon, 2001). She is also the author, under the pseudonymous name of"
"novels ""Durable Goods"", ""Joy School"", and ""True to Form"" form a trilogy about the 12-year-old Katie Nash, in part based on the author's own experience as a daughter in a military family. Most recently, her essay ""The Pretend Knitter"" appears in the anthology ""Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting"", published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2013. Elizabeth Berg (author) Elizabeth Berg (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist. Berg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, and lived in Boston prior to her residence in Chicago. She studied English at the University of Minnesota, but later ended"
"published by Abacus (with his SF in Orbit). In 2012, Little, Brown acquired and published ""Harry Potter"" author J. K. Rowling's first novel for adults, ""The Casual Vacancy"" and, in 2013, Rowling's foray into crime fiction, ""The Cuckoo's Calling"" published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Little, Brown/Abacus have published many great American writers, including Donna Tartt, Gore Vidal, E. L. Doctorow, David Sedaris, Candace Bushnell and Anita Shreve. Little, Brown non-fiction authors include historians Tom Holland, Juliet Barker, Eric Hobsbawm, Thomas Pakenham and writers as diverse as Tim Harford, Professor Steve Jones, Will Hutton and Evan Davis. Abacus was founded"
"with eight other books in this category. Fiction Shauna Glenn Shauna Glenn (born March 2, 1970) is an American author, who published her first book – ""Heaping Spoonful"" – in July 2008. Glenn has written two other books, including ""Relative Insanity,"" which is due out later in 2009. Shauna Glenn was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and still resides there today. She attended Boswell High School and graduated in 1988. She spent three years at Baylor University, before returning to Fort Worth to work in the family business. Glenn started writing her first book in 2002. In 2006, Glenn began"
"New School in New York City and at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee. Shelley Jackson Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her hyperfiction, ""Patchwork Girl"" (1995). Her first novel was published in 2006, ""Half Life"". Born in the Philippines, Jackson grew up in Berkeley, California, where her family ran a small women's bookstore for several years; Jackson later recalled, ""I was already in love with books by then...and the family store just confirmed what I already suspected, that books were the most interesting and important things in the world."
"blog W.T. Quick to blog about his writing and publishing efforts past, present and future. William Thomas Quick William Thomas ""Bill"" Quick (born 1946), who sometimes writes under the pseudonym Margaret Allan, is a science fiction author and self-described libertarian conservative blogger. Quick is the author of 28 novels, the most famous of which is the cyberpunk ""Dreams of Flesh and Sand"", and co-authored a six-novel series with William Shatner. Quick runs the conservative blog ""Daily Pundit"". Quick is originally from Indiana and now lives in Hunters Point, San Francisco, California. He attended The Hill School as a member of"