A slightly different post this time. Instead of the usual few paragraphs about the books I read, this post is about an author talk I attended this week. The last book I read was Adele Parks' 'Just my Luck', and I'm afraid I thought it wasn't really my type of book and I took it back to the library thinking I wouldn't bother with any more from the author. Anyway, that was a few days ago, and now I've listened to Adele talk about her writing career, I'm beginning to wonder if I haven't been unduly critical, and maybe I should give her another chance. I turned up to the talk with an open mind because you have to admire anyone who can shift 4.5 million copies across 31 languages, and today's fiction market is a very crowded place. Adele has written a book a year for the last twenty years, and always has one in progress, one in editing and one to be promoted. At the time of writing, she was just days away from the publication of her latest book,...