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The Thorn Girl - this is a well paced and unforgettable story

From the first sentence of this exciting psychological thriller by popular author, Laura Elliot, my interest was caught and held. Following the rather shocking beginning with the group attack on fifteen year old Marianne, the action swiftly moves forward 25 years. There it takes up the story of Adele. Clearing out the attic on the death of her grandmother, she is looking forward to flying off to a new life in Colorado with her fiancé when, amongst the cobwebs and clutter, she comes across a...

This is a well paced and unforgettable story

From the first sentence of this exciting psychological thriller by popular author, Laura Elliot, my interest was caught and held. Following the rather shocking beginning with the group attack on fifteen year old Marianne, the action swiftly moves forward 25 years. There it takes up the story of Adele. Clearing out the attic on the death of her grandmother, she is looking forward to flying off to a new life in Colorado with her fiancé when, amongst the cobwebs and clutter, she comes across a...

'Holding Pattern' out now in paperback on Amazon.

The good news is Holding Pattern, my new Irish airline novel, is out now in ebooks and paperback. It can be got from Amazon and my first review has been posted by Tulip on Amazon.com.

This reviewer notes that it is set in the 70's and early eighties and the novel starts with the crash of a passenger jet in the jungle of Ceylon. Air hostess Kay believes her lover married pilot Graham dead and marries a friend.  However, he is held hostage by a local mercenary group and returns to Irel...

Holding Pattern my airline novel.

Yesterday was the big day, the day my airline novel Holding Pattern went online. It was for sale on Amazon as well as many other outlets. Not everyone has gone digital and emails are coming in with the vital question. 'When will it be available in paperback?' 

Just finished reading the proofs so should know soon.  Rough estimate 2/3 weeks   Will be sure and let you know. 

Holding Pattern will be online end of Septermber.

 I didn't realise when my novel was being converted to digital that I wasn't allowed to include the link to my Amazon page.  No, really. It seems other distributing outlets don't like it, consider it a downright unfair disadvantage.  Not to me, of course, but well, I can see their point now.  So won't do it anymore. Promise!
Not when it's stopping my book from going online for another whole fortnight.   

The paperbacks will be a little later but I expected th...

My new airline book Holding Pattern

Holding Pattern will be online middle of September, in paperback by end of the month. Available from Amazon. Married on  the rebound, air hostess Kay Martin, is shocked to discover her former lover, Captain Graham Pender, believed dead in a Colombo Air crash some years earlier, is alive and a hostage in the Ceylonese jungle. After being rescued, Graham returns to Ireland and flying, and meets up again with Kay.  In the aftermath of a foiled hijacked flight out of JFK to Cuba passion...

Freebie time again Short Story Collection The Straw Hat.

With Christmas coming close - twenty days to go - you might like a few Christmas stories to read on your Kindle over the festive season. The Straw Hat  can be downloaded for free from my Amazon page between 7th to 11th December .This week in fact. amazon.com/author/nestatuomey
 Sister Enda's Lamb started out as a BBC Morning Story, before being published in various magazines. From the eye view of well-behaved Maria who has high hopes her tiny woolly lamb will make it to the top of th...

#poweredByindie Day four of free download Up Up and Away

So it's the fourth day of the free download of Up Up and Away. Few know this book started off with the working title of Standby For Take-off. Tomorrow will be the last day to get it for free on Amazon. A humorous, sometimes wry look from the inside of Celtic Airways, a thriving Irish airline. Romantic too depending how you feel about an air hostess madly in love with a four gold striper, married pilot. Don't miss it. Sequel coming online soon.

#poweredByindie - Today's the day free download of Up Up and Away

Today you can download for free Up Up and Away on Amazon.  Offer lasts until Monday, another five days to go. Get it, read it and enjoy this tale of an Irish airline and the pilots and air hostesses, their loves, lives, thrills and spills of flying and romancing.

Free Download from Amazon 'Up Up and Away'

So here goes. Kicking off Amazon promotion on my first airline novel Up Up and Away on Thursday 25th May with five days of freebies. Set in the 1960's it will give you an idea of what it was to work for an Irish airline in those years.  Quote from fellow air hostess on reading it. 'I don't remember it being so much fun back then'  In retrospect we did have a lot of fun. Read
for free and tell me if you agree.  Maybe write a review. Enjoy!