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WINTER SIX! Free Bonus Chapter!
Have you ever enjoyed a book so much you're reluctant to leave the characters lives? Do you wish the author had written more and you could find out what happened next?
Well, several readers have told me they feel that way about FIVE WINTERS, and the characters have never left my mind, especially Beth.
So, I've written WINTER SIX - a bonus chapter you can DOWNLOAD FREE WITH THIS LINK! https://dl.bookfunnel.com/u932ul4s98
Somehow important things always seem to happen to Beth Bailey in winter. This one is no exception. WINTER SIX tells you the rest of the story. Prepare to be as surprised as Beth is!
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Well, several readers have told me they feel that way about FIVE WINTERS, and the characters have never left my mind, especially Beth.
So, I've written WINTER SIX - a bonus chapter you can DOWNLOAD FREE WITH THIS LINK! https://dl.bookfunnel.com/u932ul4s98
Somehow important things always seem to happen to Beth Bailey in winter. This one is no exception. WINTER SIX tells you the rest of the story. Prepare to be as surprised as Beth is!
If you download it I'll ask you for your email address because I'd love to keep in touch with you to tell you about future books, special offers and bits and pieces about my life, but you can unsubscribe at any time.
One Day, Five Winters and Naked Poker
I’ve recently binged-watched the new Netflix adaptation of One Day by David Nicholls, and I agree with Matt Haig (The Midnight Library) who’s just posted on Instagram to say how good it is. I think the adaptation is fantastic - the acting, the settings, the emotion, the flawed characters… I could go on. My only regret is that I’ve finished it. But hey, I can always watch it all over again.
I loved One Day when it first came out in 2011. The idea of following two characters on the same date over twenty years was refreshing and exciting. Also, for a writer, challenging and interesting. I freely admit that, when I decided my novel Five Winters should take place over, well, five winters, I was inspired by the structure of One Day. Why not? The two books are very different - although they’re both about love and finding yourself. I loved using the structure of five different parts - one for each year of the book. Finding ways to leave the reader on a cliffhanger at the end of one part and choosing interesting ways to fill her in on what had happened during the intervening time was fun, and somehow, because of it, the book almost wrote itself.
There’s nothing wrong with being inspired by such things - if there was, there may not have been anymore whodunits after Agatha Christie.
But what if a celebrity decides to write a series of books with a set up and a group of characters that is really similar to one you’ve been writing about yourself for several years? And what if that celebrity’s series becomes a global success, hitting all the best-seller lists? It’s irksome, that’s what it is!
I’m speaking about my friend Ann Warner’s Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club series, and Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club books. Now Richard, who may not have been quite the celebrity he was in the UK elsewhere in the world when he first decided to pick up a pen, is a thoroughly delightful guy. (Not that I’ve met him in person, you understand, but that’s the way he comes across on TV and social media). There’s no way he would have deliberately scoured the Internet, come across Ann’s books about a group of sleuthing pensioners and thought to himself, “That’s a good idea, I’ll try that myself.” In fact, I know the inspiration for the books came from his mother living in a supported living complex. But if Richard ever does come across Ann’s books, he’ll love them as, if you like Richard’s books, you will too.
Both series have sparky characters, wit, emotion, heaps of adventures and dastardly baddies. They keep you gripped. What Richards books don’t have is naked poker. And the first of his books isn’t free to download the way Ann’s is. Just saying.
If you like cosy mysteries, why not give Ann’s books a try? Here's the link to the first one in the seeries: The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club: Book One
I loved One Day when it first came out in 2011. The idea of following two characters on the same date over twenty years was refreshing and exciting. Also, for a writer, challenging and interesting. I freely admit that, when I decided my novel Five Winters should take place over, well, five winters, I was inspired by the structure of One Day. Why not? The two books are very different - although they’re both about love and finding yourself. I loved using the structure of five different parts - one for each year of the book. Finding ways to leave the reader on a cliffhanger at the end of one part and choosing interesting ways to fill her in on what had happened during the intervening time was fun, and somehow, because of it, the book almost wrote itself.
There’s nothing wrong with being inspired by such things - if there was, there may not have been anymore whodunits after Agatha Christie.
But what if a celebrity decides to write a series of books with a set up and a group of characters that is really similar to one you’ve been writing about yourself for several years? And what if that celebrity’s series becomes a global success, hitting all the best-seller lists? It’s irksome, that’s what it is!
I’m speaking about my friend Ann Warner’s Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club series, and Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club books. Now Richard, who may not have been quite the celebrity he was in the UK elsewhere in the world when he first decided to pick up a pen, is a thoroughly delightful guy. (Not that I’ve met him in person, you understand, but that’s the way he comes across on TV and social media). There’s no way he would have deliberately scoured the Internet, come across Ann’s books about a group of sleuthing pensioners and thought to himself, “That’s a good idea, I’ll try that myself.” In fact, I know the inspiration for the books came from his mother living in a supported living complex. But if Richard ever does come across Ann’s books, he’ll love them as, if you like Richard’s books, you will too.
Both series have sparky characters, wit, emotion, heaps of adventures and dastardly baddies. They keep you gripped. What Richards books don’t have is naked poker. And the first of his books isn’t free to download the way Ann’s is. Just saying.
If you like cosy mysteries, why not give Ann’s books a try? Here's the link to the first one in the seeries: The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club: Book One
