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It's here! It's alive!

Today is the day! AT THE END OF THE SUMMER's release day.  
 Blurb:   Joshua’s life as a rock guitarist seems like a dream come true. Sold out concerts, red carpet events and wild nights portray him as a confident young man with the world at his feet. Only few friends know the scars he carries. 
When freelance photographer Caroline meets the rock band Burning Ruins at the after party, irresistible chemistry of attraction between sexy rock guitarist and her is clearly seen to everybody. However, after forced conversation from Joshua’s side, Caroline's convinced the attraction is not mutual. 
Waking up next morning, Caroline has no idea what happened. She flees out of the hotel room mortified, convinced she’d become another of the band’s trophies. Determined never to meet anyone from Burning Ruins ever again, she has no clue people around her have different ideas. 
In a summer that takes them from London to Wales and to the sultry heat of Rome, they’re desperately fighting their demons from the past, while trying to protect their broken hearts. Will they ever let each other mend their broken hearts or will they try to heal them alone?
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If you haven't got your yet, today's your last chance to get it for a special price of  99p/99c.     

A day before publication day

Can't believe. The wait is almost over. One more day till the publication day of my 3rd novel
At the End of the Summer 

and there are another two reviews/ratings on Goodreads. 
One 5 STAR rating: 


and one 4 STAR review...

Happy dance!

Let me brag a little bit more...

You know, it's only 

and I am proud to share with you another 5 star review! 

followed by 4 star review... :)



Are you intrigued enough? 
Just follow this link
 At the End of the Summer 
and get your copy now
for a Special PRE-ORDER price of 99p/99c .

Juggling too many balls

Being a writer, an author I never thought you would be wanting to read about my personal life. I am not even sure on how much I have already shared with you, but I don't think it is that much.
However, the beginning of this year I found myself again at the crossover. I needed a change and I needed it fast. For the past eleven plus years, I worked for a steel industry company focused on export and for the past seven years my role was Senior Buyer. I loved doing what I did. I had daily contacts with half of Europe if not quite with half of the world.
We went through different kinds of times. Good and bad for business, yet we survived and strived.  I was proud. Still am. But I started to become… restless. I think that is the best word to describe how I felt for the past few months.
Slowly everything started to get on my nerves. Don’t get me wrong, I was still doing my job as it needed to be done and better. I was raised that way.
Then it happened.
In scheduled the publication of my third novel – At the End of the Summer. You’ve heard a lot about it this past few months. Then I joined Pict Publishing. 
And then… I was offered a new job. In a new company. In a new city.
Two weeks after, at the beginning of March, I handed in my four weeks’ notice and continued working till the end, at the beginning of April, like I had not resigned.
They were an interesting five weeks. Intense. For a few weeks some of my colleagues didn’t believe what I had done. However slowly the realisation hit them. It also hit me. 

While I worked in the office like nothing happened… my ‘other’ professional life almost crashed and sunk…

5 STAR review for At the End of the Summer

We have lovely - summerish - days at the moment. The sun is shining, the temperatures are around 25°C, the weekend is still in progress... What's there not to like, right?
So this morning, when I woke up and made myself (and OH) a mug of coffee, I sat down and looked at... yes, you have guessed it, my email.
In between all sorts of emails, I found a notification. My name was mentioned on Facebook. So I looked and... TA-DAH! 
There it was!
My FIRST 5 STAR review for my forthcoming new novel At the End of the Summer, currently on preorder for a special price of 99p/99c on Amazon - you can click the link.
You don't need to be Sherlock, to deduct that I LOVE it! 

Grab your copy before price goes up! 

Procrastination... The End?

For the past few months I was – let’s be honest here – procrastinating. A lot. And it is/was completely my fault. I barely managed to get myself to sit down and write something. Even blog posts were scarce and I needed someone – fictional – to breathe down my neck to write any. I was avoiding my computer, actually my new lap top like the plague.

You’re probably wondering how this happened?

At the end of the last year I had already written more than 30.000 words of my new novel. Somehow, I knew it was… crap. Too boring.

So, what did I do? I asked my good friend to ask some of her reading friends to read it. They didn’t know who I was, I didn’t – still don’t – know who they were in order to be completely honest in their feed-back.

Guess what? I was right. It was crap. I wondered how this could have happened.

I had such an amazing idea in my head. When it hit me, I got goose-bumps. I remember exactly how and when it hit me. I was in my car, driving home from work, listening to some music… I was so excited. But there was another story to be edited, polished and got ready for publication.

And before I managed to sit down and write the idea… it looks like it got watered-down.
Reading all the feed-backs, over and over again – although all professional and not putting me down as a writer – that nasty little “I’m not good enough” bug started to hunt me down.

At first it was a distinctive little voice, but as time passed by, it grew louder and louder and soon I wasn’t writing anything anymore and I used my laptop only for socializing.

Right at the same time my professional life became a mess. I had so much work at the office I stayed there longer and longer, trying to sort things out down, so I made that as my perfect excuse, why I am not writing. At all.

But now, I need to face myself in the mirror and tell myself I was procrastinating. A lot. The thing is, I work fine under pressure. If I’m given a deadline.

Perhaps writing as an Indie writer gives me too much freedom as to when I will write and how much and this kills my motivation. Perhaps having my day-job gives me too much safety… Perhaps my personal life is too busy to be able to…

But you know what? I know now that this are just excuses. And lame ones too.

A few days ago, I had to write a guest blog post for a friend and she gave me a deadline… I felt great after writing it down. I almost forgot that feeling…

So, this is how it is going to work. I will set myself goals, deadlines. 

To get my writing spirit back, I’m going to focus to write (and bore you with) at least two blog posts per week and after that…

I just know my writing beast will get unleashed and… well… let us all be surprised.

Pre-order starts today!

Today is the day! 
From today you can pre-order my 3rd novel 
AT THE END OF THE SUMMER
To celebrate with you, my lovely readers, I decided to put it on a special PRE-ORDER price of
99p / 99c
WORLDWIDE.
Grab your copy by clicking the link above any you'll be transferred to your Amazon site, before the price goes up. 

Bullied as a teen, Joshua hides his extreme talent from the world. Only the closest to him knows about it. Meeting Caroline he’s unsure what he should do until his heart overrules his mind and he’s...

Pre-Order Soon!

With publication day ~ 1st May 2018 ~ for my 3rd novel: AT THE END OF THE SUMMER fast approaching I just realised I forgot to tell you about the pre-order date. 
As everybody - including myself - is getting busier and busier around Easter, you will be able to make your purchase right after it - on Easter Monday.
Yes that's right. 
AT THE END OF THE SUMMER 
preorder date 
2th April, 2018

Promo Post ~ PARADISE GIRL by Phill Featherstone

 

Genre: Nominally YA/NA, general fictionRelease Date: 27 January 2017Publisher: MatadorKerryl Shaw has always kept a diary, but this one is different because she knows she is going to die.A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old Kerryl lives with her family on a remote farm. They think they will be safe, but the danger advances. One day a stranger arrives, and it soon becomes apparent that he has brought the plague to their door. Kerryl is sure it’s only a matter of time before she catches the infection and dies, and decides to record what she thinks will be her final days. She realises that her diary will never be read, so she imagines a reader and calls him Adam. Loneliness and isolation affect the balance of her mind. Little by little Adam comes alive to her, and she sets off across the moor to meet him.
EXTRACT
        Introductions are boring, but unless I take time to explain things it will be confusing for you. Me first. Not very polite, I know, but it’s probably the best place to start.        My name is Kerryl – or that’s what my family and friends call me. My proper name is Cheryl. Cheryl Alison Shaw. They call me the Paradise Girl. Don’t get excited – it sounds sexy but it’s not. I’m seventeen years old and still a virgin. I’m not a nun, I’ve been out with loads of boys – Tim, Mark (two of them), Nathan, Jake, Tristram, Steve – but I wasn’t that keen on any of them and they didn’t last. The exception was Mark II. He was older than me, fearsomely good looking and he had a nice car. I thought he was really hot. When I wasn’t with him I was thinking about him. But it seems he wasn’t as keen as me, and one day my best friend, Josie, told me that he was going out with Monica Woodbridge and saying I was a frigid cow. It seems everybody knew I’d been dumped and I was the last to find out.The worst thing was the shock. I thought Monica Woodbridge was my friend. As well as that, all the girls in our group had been going out with the same boys for a long time, but I seemed to keep a boyfriend for only a few weeks. Was there something wrong with me? To be honest, I’m not a great beauty. I don’t mean I’m a train wreck or anything. I’m not bad looking, but I’m not like Charlene Brooker or Suzy Simmonds. They’re electric, both of them. Charlene could be a model, and Suzy’s always surrounded by a gang of drooling boys.They’re gone now: Charlene, Suzy, Josie, Monica, all of them.        Sorry for the break there. I had to stop to have a little weep. I’ll try not to do too much of that. I suppose I can console myself with one thing: with everyone else dead, I must be the most beautiful girl in the world!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Phill Featherstone was born and brought up in the north of England. He trained as a teacher and taught English in comprehensive schools. In the late 1990s he and his wife, Sally, founded a publishing company specialising in education books for the early years. In 2008 the business was acquired by Bloomsbury, after which they moved to Yorkshire. He now spends his time writing, travelling, on the arts and on conservation work. Phill has degrees from Cambridge and Leicester Universities, and is a member of the Society of Authors. Paradise Girl is his third novel, although the first to be published.
Paradise Girl recently won a CHILL WITH A BOOK AWARD!




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Excuse my silence...

March has come in with the rush I never had thought it would. So many things have happened in the last two weeks I have a hard time keeping all the balls in the air.



As you all already know I've become a Pict Publishing author and getting ready to publish my 3rd novel: At the End of the Summer, which took almost all my free time. 
However these two things are not the only things that are new. Last Monday (5th March) I handed in my 4 weeks notice to the production company I work for after being there for eleven years and a few months. It wasn't easy to be honest, but I had to. It's high time I move forward and try something - not so new, but a bit different. 
Like it's written in 'About me' - somehow I managed to find myself working in mainly male dominated businesses. Not to be mistaken, this time is the same. I'm going to continue working in the steel industry... Don't even ask how I even managed to find myself working in this field...
The last two weeks I'm working my butt off (well, something I have always done) to finish the work that still needs to be finished by me and to hand over the rest of the projects that can't be finished in time I'm still in the office with other colleagues of mine...You can believe me - it's a lot of work...
In a month I'm going to start a new job as a Chief Operating Officer in a new company and in a city and the excitement is slowly starting to hunt me down...
So, no, not yet. This time I'm not going to stay home and focus solely on my writing career.  But you can believe me - one day, that day will come...