Today I have the extremely lovely Carly from Writing from the Tub to answer a few questions! I was lucky enough to have lots of lunch dates while I was at uni as we lived in the same city and we used to spend hours and hours talking about books and boys. Such fun.
THE
BASICS
Tell
us a little about you and your blog
Hello my dear chum Sophie and
of her lovely readers! I’m Carly and I run Writing from the Tub. I’m 26 and I
live in the South West and love to read and write contemporary YA. I also love
cheese, candles and my lovely dog, Bertie.
What
inspired you to start up Writing From the
Tub?
I got into review writing just
after I graduated from uni and ending up writing reviews for Chicklish (if any
of you out there aren’t subscribed give it a look – it’s brill). After a while
Luisa encouraged me to start my own blog and it all went from there.
How
long have you been blogging?
It will be four years in
January – which is INSANE!
BEING
A BLOGGER
Do
you remember what the first book you reviewed was?
I do! It was Extreme Kissing by Luisa Plaja, and
speaking to Luisa about it resulted in me reviewing for Chicklish, which is
what led me to start writing Writing from the Tub back in 2010.
What’s
been the highlight of your blogging career so far?
This past February my county
library asked me to run a workshop about blogging (which you very kindly came
to, Sophie!) and that was definitely a big highlight for me, for a library to
actually know my blog enough to approach me. It was great! [Sophie: It was a brilliant event! Carly was
great J]
Your
biggest book-related starstruck moment?
I think it was at an Atom event
a couple of years ago when I spent half an hour talking to Sarra Manning about
reality TV and music – I spent my teenage years in love with her Diary of a Crush books so it absolutely
made my life to have a full-on conversation with her.
EVERYTHING
ELSE
What
was the last book that made you cry?
Every
Day by David
Levithan. I woke my boyfriend up because I was crying so hard by the end!
You
started a beauty blog this year, Life
From the Tub. How do you manage to juggle the two?
Ha, I don’t, I’m terrible at
it! One of my biggest resolutions for 2014 is to get organised and get into a
good routine for both blogs.
I think the important thing is
to keep them as separate as possible so things don’t get muddled. I tend to
write a lot of blog posts in a single day and schedule them in advance, so I’ll
take a weekend to write blog posts and spend Saturday on Writing from the Tub,
and Sunday on Life from the Tub. I find that’s the easiest way to stop my mind
getting too cluttered!
Which 2014 release are you most excited for?
Ooh, that’s a toughie because
2014 is shaping up to be an insanely good year for contemporary YA! I’m torn
between Trouble by Non Pratt and The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel.
Thank you for having me today,
Sophie, you lovely thing!
You’re welcome, lovely. Now
make sure you all go and check out Writing from the Tub and take a look back at
her 12 Days of Christmas series of posts where she’s rounded up the bookish
year.
Sophie
Wonderful interview! Carly, I'd forgotten (or maybe I never knew) that EK was the first book you reviewed. Wow - thank you!
ReplyDeleteHurray for four years of Writing From the Tub! Happy reading and blogging!
Loved the interview, both of you! I loved the blog talk in February, Carly. It really helped me find my blogging self, if that makes sense. I'm also really, really looking forward to Trouble. I think it's one of my most anticipated books of 2014.
ReplyDeleteI'm really loving these interviews - and congrats on 4 years of Blogging Carly! I don't how you manage to run two blogs at the same time!
ReplyDeleteAnd the 12 days of Christmas feature is fab!
Brilliant interview between 2 good people! Tai for Jenny and Wondrous Reads! i like the magazine pic.job interview
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