Book Review: Do You Want to be a Model?, a fashion memoir by Ines Crnokrak Skerlic

November 7, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

There is something totally fascinating about seeing bad things happen to pretty people–especially when there is tons of gore involved. Enter Do You Want to be a Model?, the real-life story of a young Serbian teen navigating her way through the stuff of fashion nightmares–from model apartments that would make your skin crawl (literally) to embezzlement-prone fashion agents with a […]

Halloween Giveaway: A Pair of Wickedly Cute Earrings

October 28, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hello Darlings, Dead bodies, cupcakes, and ultra-cute Japanese cartoon animals? If I had designed a pair of earrings based on my novel,The Tokyo Cover Girls, they would look like this. So, to celebrate their fabulousness (and yours) I’m giving away three sets on October 31. For a chance to win follow me on twitter, on instagram, or simply like this […]

Film Review: The Model

October 14, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Model, directed by Danish filmmaker Mads Matthiesen, is about an emerging model’s dark journey into the Paris fashion industry. The main character, a 16-year old Danish girl named Emma, spins out of control after getting dumped by her photographer boyfriend, and winds up living her worst nightmare. As you might have noticed by now, I’m a bit […]

5 Real-life Murders That Inspired My Novel, The Tokyo Covergirls

September 27, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

The night before I left for Tokyo, one of my friends, Andrea, burst into tears. I was 16 years old and was moving by myself to one of the world’s biggest cities to work as a fashion model. I don’t know what horror story was running through her mind at the time, she only told me she […]

Book Review: The Stories Models Never Tell

September 18, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Because nothing says fabulous like strutting the runway in a remote desert compound where the armed guards are so FREAKING terrifying that you’d rather pee in a bottle than ask to use the loo. Enter the The Stories Models Never Tell, a memoir written and published by former model Christine Hart. The book follows Hart’s career in […]

Who’s That Girl? The Secret Identity of my Cover Girl

September 16, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

A lot of people have asked me if the face on the cover of my book, The Tokyo Cover Girls belongs to me. I get it. With my youthful skin and sleek physique, I basically look like I’m still a teenager. Alas, I thought I should probably give credit to my cover model and introduce […]

5 Things in Your Closet That Could Kill You

September 5, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Forget the boogey man. Though the real threats lurking in your bedroom closet or bathroom cabinet may be a lot cuter than the fat green monster that terrorized your childhood, they are also a lot deadlier. From foot ware to cosmetics, check out these 5 things you use everyday that are way more lethal than you could imagine. 1. […]