How a handy home reference book can transform your puppy pee-soaked home into one smelling of fresh tea and lavender

I have finally succumbed to the Shannon Lush phenomenon. Or driven to it, by a tiny bundle of hell (the cute joyful kind).

Everyone has raved about Shannon’s Spotless books for years, and I have seen them walk out of bookstores in droves. But it took the aforementioned bundle of hell (the cute joyful kind) and her peeing free-for-all to send me fleeing for my local bookstore in search of the special keepsake bind-up hardback edition to last me the ages.

Libba Bray subverting the sales paradigm and why you should read Beauty Queens

Hmmm, despite my hard work in years past promoting authors and encouraging them to promote themselves, I admit to being a bit cynical when they actually go out and do the sales pitch.

But I am can't help myself on this occasion.