early Christmas present..
December 22nd, 2008
I’ve just had an early Christmas present in the form of a great review for Face Value from the website: Focus on Style. It couldn’t have come at a better time, as I’ve just finished writing the first draft of my new novel and I’m really excited by it.
What happens next? Well, it will [...]
hairdryers at dawn…
October 17th, 2008
Sally Hershberger is the kind of woman who isn’t easily forgotten. When I met her a few years ago at beauty central (Claridges, again!) I was beauty director at Tatler, and she was working with John Frieda with a salon in LA. She told me I looked like Heidi Klum, a comment which I have [...]
The Good Web Guide reviews Face Value
August 10th, 2008
“If you take one book to the beach this summer, let it be Face Value by Kathleen Baird-Murray – a highly readable, wickedly indulgent read for girls on their hols.
The chick lit genre is one that generally provokes a bit of scorn from those who like to think of themselves as more serious readers, and [...]
HOW SHE REALLY DOES IT - Podcast
August 5th, 2008
Listen to Kathleen’s interview on Radio show “How She Really Does It” on KDRT 101.5 FM in Davis, CA.
Listen to the podcast
Sienna Guillory praise for Face Value
July 10th, 2008
I was cheered considerably by emails flying to and from America the whole time I was there. Sienna Guillory, the actress, was kind enough to read Face Value and say this about it:
“How nice to find a heroine that isn’t a dropout and a self doubting ninny, I love the way she’s so vehemently self [...]
New York: Join us for a reading/signing
May 25th, 2008
Wednesday, June 4th
7:00 PM
BORDERS
461 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-980-6785
THE STORY SO FAR…
May 21st, 2008
The book’s here. FedExed from New York. Pristine, with un-thumbed pages. A cover without a coffee cup ring. Dry square corners as yet unsoaked by a reading in the bath. It begs to be scuffed up a little, in someone else’s hands, a stranger reading it on a train, because then it will really exist, [...]
Q&A between Kathleen Baird-Murray and Claudia Savino
April 25th, 2008
Q&A between Kathleen Baird-Murray and Claudia Savino, her friend in New York who found a critter under her desk and needed to do something that would take her mind off it.
1.Why plastic surgery?
Do you mean generally, or as the setting for this novel? Well, it’s quite zeitgeisty no? And at the time I had [...]
