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More blog tour!!

I’m visiting Prism Book Alliance today, to answer interview questions and offer an opportunity to enter a contest to win a prize. Additionally, Prism offers a fantastic prize to one lucky commenter each month. Got to be worth a go, right?

And the next project …

Actually no. I’ve already got 3 on the go and need another like a hole in the head. So I’m revisiting books I put aside when I started the ‘getting Eleventh Hour ready to release into the wild’ process.

I’m poking Calon Lan – not much further to go with it which is always when I start second guessing myself and deciding that the end isn’t strong enough. But I’m also reading stuff I wrote last November and haven’t really looked at since. I’ve only tried a little bit of contemporary romance – a...

New Release – Volatile by Avylinn Winter

Happy release day to Avylin Winter. This is her first published work, I hope the first of many.

Blurb:

Like a depressed moth drawn to a wild flame, Chris hoped that flame would brighten his life, not burn him alive.

Chris Sinclair fades into a gray world after losing his mother to cancer. When forced to attend a concert, as a last attempt to coax him out of his shell, he discovers that life might not be as bleak as he first thought.

Dante Heron holds the audience between the tips of his fing...

Blog Tour – but this time it’s me!

I often host blog tours but I don’t often do one myself. But I thought I’d give it a go for Eleventh Hour, because I think Miles and Briers deserve it, and I must say that Signal Boost Promotions have made the job so easy. Thank you Signal Boost!

Over the next couple of weeks my book will be popping up in various places around the web. Today a big thank you to My Fiction Nook for hosting my excited thoughts about plumbing. I promise this is relevant to the book.

So plumbing and relevancy – a...

A Summer’s Day anthology – author interview #12 – Rebecca Cohen

My guest today, for the twelfth and final Summer’s Day interview, is Rebecca Cohen, author of fantasy and historical novels, some of which have huge relevance to this anthology. Also she’s fun and I’ll be able to fangirl her a bit at the UK Meet in a couple of weeks!

Welcome Rebecca and thanks for answering my questions.

What led you to pick your source material for your story?

I love Shakespeare, especially the comedies. This is probably not news to anyone who has read my historical novels....

A Summer’s Day anthology – author interview #11 – M Leanne Phoenix

My guest today is M Leanne Phoenix, and author I know primarily through the Rainbow Snippets project [check it out, it’s good fun] but I’m looking forward to getting to know her better.

Welcome, M Leanne, and thanks for answering my questions.

What led you to pick your source material for your story?

Macbeth has always been one of my favorite plays by The Bard, and to have the chance to use it in a story… it’s a dream come true. I knew that Romeo and Juliet would likely be taken, and since I’...

A Summer’s Day anthology – author interview #10 – J L Merrow

Elin’s Qs [notes in brackets won’t appear in the post]My guest today is J L Merrow, a favourite author and a favourite person so I’m delighted to be playing host.

Welcome JL, and thanks for answering my questions.

What led you to pick your source material for your story?

This isn’t the first time I’ve done a Shakespeare based story – my novel Played! is heavily based on/around an amateur production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But for this anthology I wanted to do something a little diff...

A Summer’s Day anthology – author interview #9 – Phetra H Novak

My guest today is Phetra H Novak, another author from my side of the pond though not from the UK, who is best known for her books combining the legends of Scandinavia with those of the Caddo people of North America.

Welcome, Phetra, and thanks for answering my questions.

What led you to pick your source material for your story?

I love the play and the movie ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, it is a comedy and has all these amazing characters like Benedict the slightly flighty groom but who also has a...

A Summer’s Day – author interview #8 – Charlie Cochrane

My guest today is old friend, colleague on the UK Meet committee and fantastic mystery writer, Charlie Cochrane.

Welcome Charlie, and thanks so much for answering my questions!

What led you to pick your source material for your story?

I love Twelfth Night. Blooming love it. We’ve seen it live twice, once in the wonderful surroundings of Netley Abbey and once at Chichester where my beloved Patrick Stewart was one of the funniest Malvolios I’ve ever seen. That production really brought out the...

Blog Post: The Eleventh Hour by Elin Gregory

Just a quick reblog of my post over at Heloise West’s place – thanks Heloise – where I talk a bit about the ‘make it up as you go along’ attitude of the early Secret Service types. Plus bonus recipe for invisible ink!

This post brought to you in celebration of the fact that apparently my paperbacks of Eleventh Hour have been dispatched. I hope the pigeon had plenty of birdseed before they sent him off.

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Hi Heloise, thank you so much for being my host today and inviting me to talk...