A lady with chutzpah and friends on Twitter....

She's Nicola May, who decided to write a chicklit book, after trying out a load of different jobs following redundancy. Many of them were hilarious, many downright strange - but she thought they'd make good material for a book. But her sheer drive to get it published and marketed should, in my opinion, recommend her for any future job in marketing, let alone as an author.

Through Twitter and other networking (including her own website, of course!) she has managed to get the book, "Working It Out" into Waterstones (yes, a self-published book!), onto Kindle and onto Amazon. What's more, as a self-published author, she's even got a season of signings at stores throughout the South. I have never heard of that before.

Good on you, Nicola. You deserve to do well.