The Bookshelf Reviews interviews Joan Ellis on the Girls LoveTo Read blog tour.
I am a luddite. No point pretending. You’d see right through me. Or your Google-glasses would. I don’t own an e-reader but I am sure it is only a matter of time. I’m a ‘late-adopter’ as marketeers dub people like me who are the last to catch on to gizmos and are forever playing catch-up.
This was it. Over a hundred people crammed into the Kino bar in Bournemouth to witness my first reading of ‘I am Ella. Buy me.’
Mutton dressed as pink leopard in cerise and animal-print, I was just about to take to the stage when my friend arrived.
So sordid. So sexy. So sassy. Soho was never so-so.
Working in one of London’s top advertising agencies just off Soho Square allowed me to get up close and personal with one of the most exciting places on earth.
Boy dressed as girls and women competing in a man’s world – everywhere I looked girls were ‘doing it for themselves’ to quote the lexicon of ‘80’s cool, Annie Lennox.