L.M. Chilton's Blog, page 2
December 26, 2023
SWIPED GIVEAWAY!
US readers can enter a giveaway for a free copy of SWIPED here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Good luck!
LM
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Good luck!
LM
December 21, 2023
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas everybody!
Thanks to everyone on Goodreads who read and reviewed Don't Swipe Right this year!
(There's still time to order it for a last minute Xmas pressie!)
Have a lovely holiday!
thank you
L M
Thanks to everyone on Goodreads who read and reviewed Don't Swipe Right this year!
(There's still time to order it for a last minute Xmas pressie!)
Have a lovely holiday!
thank you
L M
November 19, 2023
What inspired SWIPED / Don't Swipe Right?
I spent the best part of a decade going on many, many dates, downloading every dating app on the app store.
And for a while, it was fun. I met a lot of interesting people and tried everything from mini-golf, comedy clubs and wine tasting to baking classes, salsa dancing, board game cafes and rock climbing (and one truly terrible interactive improvisational theatre performance that still haunts me to this day).
But I started to see that swiping through a near unlimited pool of potential dates perhaps wasn’t the healthiest way to meet people.... The apps made people seem very disposable - there was always another person waiting in the wings if things didn’t immediately work out.
I thought this would be the good basis for a murder mystery– what if dates really were literally disposable? And what if someone was using a dating app to find victims?
So, in SWIPED (aka Don't Swipe Right), every man that dates 28-year-old barista Gwen is murdered. Could it be that her latest match - the mysterious Parker - is a serial killer, intent on getting rid of the competition?
Throughout the book, we flashback to each of Gwen's terrible dates. Each one contains clues to the identity of the killer, but they're also full of the awkward, funny and cringeworthy moments that happen on every first date.
I always loved reading murder mysteries, but at the time, there didn’t seem to be many aimed at people from the 'dating-app generation'. So while it's a darkly funny book, hopefully it’s also got the with twists and turns of a classic ‘whodunnit’. I liked the idea of mixing my two favourite genres – rom-coms and thrillers – to make a truly millennial murder mystery.
And for a while, it was fun. I met a lot of interesting people and tried everything from mini-golf, comedy clubs and wine tasting to baking classes, salsa dancing, board game cafes and rock climbing (and one truly terrible interactive improvisational theatre performance that still haunts me to this day).
But I started to see that swiping through a near unlimited pool of potential dates perhaps wasn’t the healthiest way to meet people.... The apps made people seem very disposable - there was always another person waiting in the wings if things didn’t immediately work out.
I thought this would be the good basis for a murder mystery– what if dates really were literally disposable? And what if someone was using a dating app to find victims?
So, in SWIPED (aka Don't Swipe Right), every man that dates 28-year-old barista Gwen is murdered. Could it be that her latest match - the mysterious Parker - is a serial killer, intent on getting rid of the competition?
Throughout the book, we flashback to each of Gwen's terrible dates. Each one contains clues to the identity of the killer, but they're also full of the awkward, funny and cringeworthy moments that happen on every first date.
I always loved reading murder mysteries, but at the time, there didn’t seem to be many aimed at people from the 'dating-app generation'. So while it's a darkly funny book, hopefully it’s also got the with twists and turns of a classic ‘whodunnit’. I liked the idea of mixing my two favourite genres – rom-coms and thrillers – to make a truly millennial murder mystery.
October 27, 2023
SWIPED giveaway!
WANT A FREE BOOK???
If you'd like to be in with the chance ion winning one of 50 free copies of SWIPED, just click on the Goodreads giveaway below!
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Good luck!
LM
If you'd like to be in with the chance ion winning one of 50 free copies of SWIPED, just click on the Goodreads giveaway below!
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Good luck!
LM
August 25, 2023
Don't Swipe Right AUDIOBOOK is out now!
The Don't Swipe Right audiobook, read by Georgia Maguire, is out now at Audible and all good audiobook sites!
It's a surreal experience to hear your book being performed, and Georgia does an amazing job as Gwen (and doing just the right voices for the other characters too, especially all the toxic dates!)
If you love listening to audiobooks (I know I do), go check it out!
It's a surreal experience to hear your book being performed, and Georgia does an amazing job as Gwen (and doing just the right voices for the other characters too, especially all the toxic dates!)
If you love listening to audiobooks (I know I do), go check it out!
July 10, 2023
DON'T SWIPE RIGHT IS OUT NOW!
Don't Swipe Right came out a couple of weeks ago, alongside an interview on ITV's This Morning and a two-page spread in the Sunday Mirror...
It's had some nice reviews in Closer magazine, Bella, Psychologies magazine and the Literary Review.
If you've had a chance to read it, do let me know what you thought (and if you managed to work out whodunnit....)
It's had some nice reviews in Closer magazine, Bella, Psychologies magazine and the Literary Review.
If you've had a chance to read it, do let me know what you thought (and if you managed to work out whodunnit....)
