It’s a pleasure to gain access to the thoughts of someone so unashamedly committed to the importance of stories. Written largely as blogs, these memorable, often very funny snapshots of Kennedy’s life also contain much better advice for would-be writers than more overtly practical guides.

- Nick Rennison, Sunday Times

Observations, both lucid and passionate, on the general state of the book trade and literary culture... Yet it’s the manoeuvres she uses and the structures she creates in order to let art happen in her own life that form the kernel of the book.

- Keith Miller, Daily Telegraph

Invaluable advice to authors...her humour – often sardonic, never malicious – is deployed to great effect.

- Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday