All this week we'll be taking you behind the scenes at Novelicious with guest posts from Team Novelicious. This fine morning, we hear from our hilarious contributor Cesca Major.
Well my workspace slightly sums up my Novelicious contributions. I wrote reviews and blog posts for a couple of years all over my house (bed, sofa, desk, kitchen worktop etc.) and was lucky enough to be invited to some fantastic events (highlights have included running around The Melissa Nathan Awards with a Novelicious banner, being snapped with incredible people, lunch at the Ivy with one of my girl crushes Joanna Rees, cocktails with author Melissa Hill and a Meet the Author panel at Simon & Schuster with Ali Harris and Wendy Wallace - very different writers but both completely fantastic in their fields). On top of the fun and the glamour I also got to read such a wide variety of books and contributed regularly to 'Alternative Thursday' with books from favourites: Natasha Solomons, Hannah Richell, Kerry Hudson, Charity Norman and more. Then I started filming bi-weekly vlogs for the site - I was writing in earnest and wanted to share the things I was learning along the way. These were brilliant fun and I loved handing on information that I had picked up.
It is fair to say that working at Novelicious has made an enormous difference in my writing life. It has been the spur to keep me going at times when I never thought I would get there. Since starting all those years ago I have got book deals, learnt such a lot but most of all connected with an incredible bunch of women who simply adore reading, writing and the whole bookish malarkey. I could not be luckier.
