My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a pas…

- Debra Hamel

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

- Debra Hamel

I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it…

- Debra Hamel

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

- Debra Hamel

What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the …

- Debra Hamel

My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember …

- Debra Hamel

In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily,…

- Debra Hamel

When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tas…

- Debra Hamel

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.

- Debra Hamel