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May 13, 2019
It’s Blog Tour Week!
Morning all, it’s the first day of the blog tour for The Catherine Howard Conspiracy and here are the first three brilliant blogs. Thank you for the amazing reviews! Beady Jan https://beadyjansbooks.blogspot.com/2... Books Are Cool http://www.booksarecool.com/2019/cath... Bookish Jottings https://bookishjottings.wordpress.com... I’ll update you as the tour progresses. xx
May 9, 2019
The Catherine Howard Conspiracy Blog Tour!
The Catherine Howard Conspiracy is going on a blog tour from Monday 13 May 2019 – Friday 17 May 2019. For those of you who are unfamiliar with such an event, which until very recently included me, then the Wikipedia definition is: A blog tour is a set amount of time in which your book … Continue reading The Catherine Howard Conspiracy Blog Tour! →
May 2, 2019
Six Weeks Later
It’s six weeks today since @SapereBooks made my dream come true and published my first novel #TheCatherineHowardConspiracy. It was years in the writing: research, more research, rewrites, new characters, new writing style, new agent but, finally, it was on the page and winging its merry way into the world. Since it was published on 28 March … Continue reading Six Weeks Later →
March 29, 2019
And, finally!
To finish this incredible, life-changing week, we had a celebratory lunch at Runwayskiln in Marloes. The weather was perfect and the views of the Pembrokeshire coastline were stunning. To complete the day, I was with some of the people I love best in the world, including the real Jenny Procter and Izabel Barnes. (Something which … Continue reading And, finally! →
March 28, 2019
It’s Publication Day!
Whoever thought a sunny Thursday in March could be so life-changing? For most people it’s probably a normal day but for me, it’s a day of dreams come true. After years and years of dreaming, followed by years and years of writing, of getting so close I could almost touch it, of seeing book deals … Continue reading It’s Publication Day! →
March 23, 2019
The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy: Cover Reveal!
Exciting news!! The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy, the second part of The Marquess House Trilogy is now available for pre-order and will be released on 2 June 2019. In the present day, the action in The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy picks up from the end of The Catherine Howard Conspiracy, while the historical sections takes us to a new era of Tudor … Continue reading The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy: Cover Reveal! →
March 21, 2019
Writing historical fiction
Today, it has taken me three hours to write two paragraphs. Not because I’m particularly slow at writing and, for once, not because I’ve allowed myself to wander all over the Internet pretending to be doing “research” (apparently, Harry Potter quizzes are not research, who knew? Neither are quizzes discovering which vegetable represents you… Weird). … Continue reading Writing historical fiction →
March 14, 2019
Not long now!
Two weeks today and The Catherine Howard Conspiracy will have been officially published! Two weeks or 14 days or 336 hours or 20,160 minutes or 1,209,600 seconds. Not that I’m counting… Check back soon when I’ll be putting up more details about the historical characters in The Catherine Howard Conspiracy. Take care, Alex. xx The Catherine Howard Conspiracy is available for … Continue reading Not long now! →
February 24, 2019
Reviews
Publication day for The Catherine Howard Conspiracy – Book One of The Marquess House Trilogy, is drawing ever nearer and the Advanced Review Copies (ARCs) have been out and about for a few weeks now, which means REVIEWS. I have to admit, when I was told The Catherine Howard Conspiracy was being reviewed my emotions travelled with … Continue reading Reviews →
May 4, 2014
Mermaid motto
My lovely friend, Gemma, sent me this. Thank you, you most gorgeous person, this is my new motto. Mermaids rock!
