Michele Gorman's Blog, page 6

Walking in a winter wonderland... with cupcakes

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Pretty as a picture

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The Small British Bake-Off

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Little Picassos

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A visit from Father Christmas

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The Christmas Creche's first day

Well, writers, you did very well, dropping the books off this morning with almost no tears - no tears from the littl'uns, that is. Abby, dear, we hope you had enough Kleenex for the ride home, and Scarlett, rest assured that little Santa Maybekept her mittens on when we played outside. In fact, I can assure you that everyone enjoyed their first day immensely.




It didn't take

Welcome to The Christmas Creche!

I am Miss Dewey, and I run the Christmas Creche, for all the books born in time for the holidays. I am thrilled to welcome the Winter Class of 2012! Just look at them. Aren't they adorable with their wee little titles and perfectly angelic covers? Their authors must be very proud indeed.




















I've been running the creche for more years than I care to admit, so I know a

Book baby daycare

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Any mum will know how hard it is with a baby in the house ... luckily I've heard about a wonderful creche, and lots of my friends and other new mothers, are sending their book babies there too.
It's called the Christmas Creche, and it opens on Friday.

Even though my heart is in my mouth over the idea of leaving The Twelve Days to Christmas for even a few hours,

The Next Big Thing

Last week the effervescent Clodagh Murphy tagged me to answer questions about my work-in-progress. I thought, ooh,
a game of tag, how fun! Even better if it involved baked goods of some kind,
but I couldn’t figure out how to do that without getting icing on the keyboard.
So here are my calorie-free answers.


What
is the working title of your next book?



This is the rough cover idea

It’s

Happy Earned-Out-Your-Advance Day, Single in the City

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Today is a momentous day. Just 851 days after Penguin UK published my debut, Single in the City, it has earned out its advance!



For anyone not in the book business, this means that Single in the City has sold enough copies to recoup the advance that Penguin paid me.




Not that you have to pay back unearned advances. It's more of a milestone than a