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Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Da Vinci Eye Award Nomination for Lady Beth

I am delighted to announce that as part of The Eric Hoffer Book Awards, LADY BETH has been nominated for the da Vinci Eye Award for Exceptional Cover Art. This is an additional distinction beneath the Eric Hoffer Award umbrella and is judged on both content and style.

The cover was designed by Mike Murray of 13th Door Creative

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Image on cover by Anita Kulon Photography, featuring Sinead O’Riordan

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Read an eBook Week!

Read an Ebook Week Sale has Begun!

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The Librarian’s Cellar Book of the Week: The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

There is something for everyone between the pages of this much quoted book. Passionate tributes to his favourite writers, some of them his very good friends. Entertaining essays, keynote speeches, personal experiences (a rather sobering piece from 2014: So Many Ways to Die in Syria) and throughout, praise for comic books, illustrators, artists and some lovely references to family. For readers of classic horror, there are tributes that ought to make you want to revisit the likes of Poe and Sto...

In Celebration of Women In Horror Month – chatting with author Fiona Cooke Hogan

In celebration of WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH 2019, I am delighted to be featured by author, Fiona Cooke Hogan on her fabulous blog, UNUSUAL FICTION

Check out our chat HERE

 

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The Librarian’s Cellar Book of The Week: Apple of My Eye by Claire Allan

Claire Allan’s latest novel is a quick and compelling read – for all the twisted reasons that you can imagine. Eli is a nurse working in a hospice. She is expecting her first child, feeling unwell and filled with doubts about her ability to love and care for her new baby. However, she has great support from work colleagues, a loving husband, and a very caring mother, so what could possibly go wrong? Everything, it seems as she begins to receive mysterious messages hinting that Martin, her hus...

The Librarian’s Cellar Book of The Week: Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

Scott King investigates the disappearance of a seven-year-old child, Alfie Marsden, missing for over thirty years. His journey draws him into the realm of folk horror, dark superstitions and encounters with a myriad of strange and troubled souls. This was a difficult book to put down. Told in the format of alternating narrative and investigative radio recordings, a chilling story unfolds that will not fail to creep you out. Wesolowski’s tale solidifies the theory that human beings are far mor...

The Librarians Cellar Book of the Week: Notes To Self by Emilie Pine

What a refreshing collection of essays! Written with such honesty on her very personal experiences of miscarriage and infertility, her relationship with her alcoholic father, Pine also gives us an insight into her experiences as a young teen, finding her way, breaking rules and boundaries – and learning the hard way who she really is. Her writing is unsentimental and thankfully, never apologetic, and her journey, like many unwritten women’s lives, is filled with a messy complexity that we can...

Write. It. Out.

It won’t last. That dull thud in your chest. The lump in your throat that keeps you silent. The sweaty palm thing won’t ever go away, but that’s okay. It’ll happen less and less. There’s a name for it, and you will call it. You remember everything. You are not weird. You are not a reject. You are not bad. You don’t know what you are. It takes time to understand, to channel it into something you can grasp. Something that is yours. But let me tell you, those floodgates will open wide, gushing w...

The Librarian’s Cellar Book of The Week: How to Be Invisible

‘A book of lyrics is a strange beast’, begins author David Mitchell in his introduction to Kate’s collection of lyrics, ‘How to Be Invisible’. This book is simply presented in a classic black cloth-bound edition that feels so good to hold, and even better to peer in amongst the pages. And for sure, it is a strange beast. With no definable arrangement, the words sans music take on a new life, and perhaps, new meaning. Keeping this collection by the bedside to choose a page at random is to redi...

The Librarian’s Cellar: December Reading

Finding time to read in December proved challenging. Books were in abundance, as were visits to bookstores. However, as the end of the busy month drew to a close, and dark evenings invited comfort food and copious glasses of wine, I decided to ignore my To Be Read tower and just indulge in the material I was most drawn to, which turned out to be personal biographies. Quick reads! I think all writers are interested in the lives of others, after all, and apart from our own experiences, isn’t th...