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March 27, 2016
Happy Easter
Happy Easterto one and all.
I wish you peace, happiness and lots of chocolate :)
March 23, 2016
3 Top Tips for the #AtoZChallenge #WriterlyWednesdays 26
Greetings fellow bloggers. Today I'm going to talk about the AtoZChallenge and 3 tips for a smooth April. If you are looking for my AtoZChallenge Theme Reveal post just click here. FYI these tips are all my own opinion, I'm not one of the organisers, they are just things I think that make life much easier.
3 Top Tips for the AtoZChallenge
A quick recap for those who don't know what the AtoZChallenge actually is, it's full title is Blogging from A to Z Challenge and it is thousan...
March 22, 2016
Dixit Odyssey - Truly Awesome Game #TipsTuesdays
Welcome to my blog - if you are after my AtoZChallenge Theme Reveal, it's here. Today's Tips Tuesday is a recommendation. On Saturday we went out to dinner with some good friends and two of them stayed over at our house. They brought with them a brilliant game which we played when we got back and I have to tell you all about it. It's so good I immediately went out and bought us our own copy.
Dixit OdysseyTruly Awesome Game
Now this is a game for between 3 and 12 people, so it suits small famili...
March 20, 2016
AtoZChallenge 2016 - Fictional Phantoms - Theme Reveal
Welcome to my blog on this lovely theme reveal day. For those who are not sure what is going on, April is AtoZ Challenge month, when several thousand bloggers all go slightly insane and decide to blog every day (except Sundays) through the month using a letter of the alphabet as our prompt.
Now some of us also have a theme for all our posts, hence theme reveal day to give everyone a chance to look around and bookmark some of the blogs they definitely don't want to miss when the real posting be...
March 3, 2016
Easy Chicken Katsu Curry Recipe (Gluten-Free)
So I love Katsu Curry, but the kits in the supermarket are so expensive for what it little more than a sachet of sauce and some breadcrumbs. They are also full of gluten, which several of my friends have to avoid. Hence I came up with this recipe and tried it on my husband last night and he loved it :). It is based off of these two recipes: Chicken Katsu Curry from allrecipes.co.uk, Crunchy Chicken Cutlets from Simply Nigella. If you wanted a vegetarian version you could use vegetables like a...
March 1, 2016
3 Variations on Gluten-Free Peanut Butter and Choc Chip Cookies (delicious) - #TipsTuesdays 25
My apologies for not being around the last few days - my husband and I were in London from Sat until yesterday having an awesome long weekend :). Welcome to Tips Tuesdays 25 and today I have the most fabulous recipe for you. You will not believe how good these taste and they have no flour so they are gluten free, which is simply win-win. They only take moments to make - the difficult part is not eating them before they are cool.
The original recipe is from Simply Nigella (I will keep mentionin...
February 24, 2016
From Fanfiction to Published Book (If 50 Shades Can Why Can't I?) #WriterlyWednesdays 25
From Fanfiction to Published Book (If 50 Shades Can Why Can't I?)Wittegen Press
Amazon
until 2Mar ONLYEveryone knows that 50 Shades of Grey started out life as a Twilight fanfiction, well nearly everyone anyway :). So of course the question comes up, if 50 Shades can become a huge hit, why can't I turn my little fanfiction epic into a book too. The answer is, of course, that you can. You just have to make sure on one thing:
Take out everything that does not belong to you before you...
February 23, 2016
Facebook Group Tools - Did you Know They Exist? #TipsTuesdays 24
So I am in the middle of a book launch (The Machine: Rise of the Gifted - still free LAST DAY), and one of the ways to promote our books is Facebook Groups, some of which have hundreds of thousands of members. Hence my choice of topic today.
Facebook Group Tools
Did You Know They Exist?Wittegen Press
Amazon
23 Feb
LAST DAYSo I downloaded a spreadsheet a couple of months ago which listed Facebook groups for promoting books, but there didn't seem to be very many on it, so I went searching...
February 22, 2016
10 Mad Scientists Who are Much More Interesting Than Dr Frankenstein #MonsterMondays 34
My new book The Machine (Rise of the Gifted) which came out yesterday and is free until tomorrow (yes this is a shameless plug :)) is contemporary science fiction with a side of male/male romance and has it's very own mad scientist in it. Hence I decided to do this week's Monster Mondays on that very subject. I do hope you enjoy it.
10 Mad Scientists Who are Much More Interesting Than Dr Frankenstein No underground lair or isolated castle base would be complete without its very own mad scienti...
February 20, 2016
NEW RELEASE- The Machine: Rise of the Gifted #SciFi #Gay #Romance
The MachineRise of the Giftedby Natasha Duncan-DrakeMen in black aren't usually associated with figure skating, but when MiBs try to arrest men's champion Louis Hayes, his ex-rival Rafe Derouet finds out to his cost that telepathic x-files really do exist.
FREE 21st - 23rd Feb ONLY
(Starts 8am GMT- Midnight PST)
Rafe Derouet used to be a world class, British figure skater competing against his arch rival, flamboyant American Louis Hayes. A catastrophic knee injury ended his career and now all he...
