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August 19, 2015
Please Release Me book trailer (in Lego)
As some of you will know, I like playing with Lego. Given that I usually have more pressing things to do, it’s always nice to have an excuse to get the Lego out. With Please Release Me coming out on the 11th of September, I thought ‘I need a book trailer’. I can’t afford real actors, so here’s my book trailer in Lego.
I’m particularly pleased with the shot of Sally’s car accident. Playdoh may have been involved. Luckily I have kids, so there’s plenty of the stuff lying around in our house.
August 14, 2015
There’s a long time between writing The End and publication; Looking back at Please Release Me
About two years ago, I wrote a post about the character Sally and Grace, who were mere doodles at the time. Now they are finally ready to be released into the real world. PLEASE RELEASE ME will be published by Choc Litnext month and is available to preorder now.
Look, isn’t it lovely!
Please Release Me by Rhoda Baxter (Choc Lit)
What if you could only watch as your bright future slipped away from you?
Sally Cummings has had it tougher than most but, if nothing else, it’s taught her to grab o...
August 4, 2015
Goodreads Book Review: The Wild One by Janet Gover
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’ve just finished reading this one. I really enjoyed the first book in the series The Flight to Coorah Creek (apart from the bit that made me cry. I’ve had words with Janet Gover about this making people cry business).
Dan is an ex-military sniper, now a park ranger with PTSD. Quinn is a photographer who lives in the back of her converted Humvee. I love that detail – she LIVES in a converted Humvee. And she knits when she’s bored. I like th...
After #TenThingsNotToSayToAuthors – what SHOULD you say?
I was looking through the #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriterfeed a couple of days ago and came across this:
I propose that readers don’t talk to authors at all. Or at least that’s what I get from the #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter hashtag
— DearAuthor (@dearauthor) July 28, 2015
I can understand the sentiment behind the tweet, but my first thought was ‘but genuine readers never say any of the things the authors are tweeting about’. I’ve heard a lotof the comments tweeted under the hashtag in real lif...
August 1, 2015
Goodreads Book Review: The Lie by C.L. Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I started reading this book on the train on the way to the Romantic Novelists Association Conference. This conference is the highlight of my year (wait, this IS relevant, I promise). By the time I got to my destination, I was most of the way through this book, but I had to put it aside to go and do conferencey socialising type things and all I wanted to do was go find out what happened to Emma and Co!
In the end, I stayed up very, very late so th...
July 31, 2015
Goodreads Book Review: 25 Ways to Sell More Romance Kindle Books
25 ways to sell more romance kindle books: use these 25 advanced tactics to become a bestselling author on amazon by Nina Harrington
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I found this book very useful. There are some very well thought out tips and the analysis of the best seller lists (it’s not rocket science, but it does take time to think it all through) is very interesting. It’s aimed at indie publishers who have complete control over their books, but it would be useful for trad/small press authors too...
July 25, 2015
#RNAConf15 notes on How to Organise a Blog Tour and how to limit Google searches to recent results
I gave a talk at the Romantic Novelists Association conference this year on ‘Organising a Blog Tour; A Guide For the Terrified’. I promised the people who came to my talk, that I would post my notes on my website. So Ta-dah! You can download them by clicking on the pretty picture below – it should download as a Word document.
I mentioned in my talk that you could limit your Google searches to the most recent results. Here’s how you do it:
Put the name of the author...
July 22, 2015
Part Six: In The Romaniac Sparkle Spotlight Is …
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July 1, 2015
Emotionally abusive relationships in fiction
I’ve been watching the whole thing about #AskELJames with interest. I haven’t read 50 Shades. I read the first chapter and decided it wasn’t for me. So I can’t comment on the books. What interests me is the discussion about abusive relationships that it’s raised (again).
As I mentioned, I haven’t read 50 shades. But I have read Twilight, and I find the relationship between Bella and Edward very disturbing indeed. Firstly, Bella talks the talk about wanting to be independent and not get marrie...
June 27, 2015
Inheritance Books: Liz Harris
This week’s Inheritance Books are from my fellow Choc Lit author, Liz Harris. I’ve known Liz through the Oxford chapter of the RNA from way before either of us were published, so I’m delighted that she finally made it to the Inheritance Books sofa. I’ve baked a chocolate cake especially for the occasion.
Hi Liz, welcome to Inheritance Books. While I get us some cake, why don’t you introduce yourself.
Thank you very much for inviting me to chat about books with you today, Rhoda; it’s a lovely...
