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 passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another. — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
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… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
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… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort. — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
