My little book is in Waterstone's!!

My little lebanese story has made it to Waterstone's, one of the UK's largest book retailers.

Granted it's only in one branch so far (Kensington High Street) but it's still exiting!

Time Out calls my book "Genre Busting"

Time Out Beirut were kind enough to feature Summer Blast and run an interview about it. They called it a "genre-busting novel". aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Click here to read the article.

Bromance and Frenemies, hearting the 10 new words in the Oxford English Dictionary

•Catastrophizing: view or present a situation as considerably worse than it actually is.
•Overthink: think about (something) too much or for too long.
•Matchy-matchy: excessively color coordinated.
•LBD: little black dress
•Frenemy: a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry.
•Cool hunter: a person whose job it is to make observations or predictions about new styles and trends.
•Bromance: a close but nonsexual relationship between two men.
•Exit strategy: a preplanned means of extricating oneself from a situation.
•Defriend: another term for unfriend (remove someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site).
•Soft skills: personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.