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Help Rowan Coleman raise £10,000 for Refuge

On September 10th Rowan is publishing her novella Woman Walks into a Bar as an ebook for the first time. And 100% of her proceeds will be donated to Refuge.

Her goal is to raise £10,000 and you can help. All you have to do is buy a book, or two, and get your friends to buy one too. You’ll get a funny, romantic and touching summer read and you’ll be helping women you’ve never even met at the same time and all for the price of £1.59!

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Inheritance Books – Elizabeth Meyette

This week the lovely Elizabeth Meyette shares her Inheritance Books. Betty is a fellow new release angel for USAToday’s Happy Ever After blog.

Hello Betty, welcome to Inheritance Books. Please tell us a bit about yourself.

My older siblings called me spoiled, my husband calls me Beloved, my kids call me goofy and I take that as a compliment. But it was the day I called myself a writer that I felt the world shift a little. That self-affirmation started a series of fortunate events that led to pu...

Inheritance Books – Julia Ibbotson

This week, Julia Ibbotson is stopping by to share her Inheritance Books, as part of her Old Rectory book tour.

Hi Julia, welcome to Inheritance Books, tell us a bit about yourself.

Hi Rhoda, good to meet you and your readers! Well, where do I start? I’m an academic and author, but the latter only fairly recently! I always wanted to be a writer and in fact wrote my first novel at the age of 10. It was all about my passions at the time which were farms, country life, horses and dogs – and of cou...

Inheritance Books – one year on; A great big thank you!

Photo by Valerie Everett reproduced under a Creative Commons License

I had originally intended to run the feature only for 1 year, but it’s been so successful and I’ve had so much fun meeting people, that I’ve decided to keep going with it until you or I get bored of it.

It seems traditional to do some sort of look back at this point. So here are my favourite Inheritance Books posts:

The funniest post was Jane Lovering’s post. I started giggling when she said she stopped growing up, but kept gr...

Goodreads Book Review – The Elephant Girl by Henriette Gyland

I love the cover of this book and the title. I really enjoyed Henriette Gyland’s Up Close, so I was always going to read The Elephant Girl. When I saw it on special offer on Kindle, I jumped at the chance to read it. (It’s still on sale for 99p, by the wayI’m not sure when the offer ends. Yes, I did read it really quickly. It would impossible not to).

The mystery at the core of the book is compelling. Helen witnessed her mother’s murder, but she’s beginning to wonder how reliable a witness a 5...

Goodreads Book Review – A Stitch in Time by Amanda James

I picked up a Stitch in Time when it was on special offer on Kindle. I liked the idea that it was billed as ‘inspired by Dr Who’.

I enjoyed the book a lot. I thought it was more along the lines of Quantum Leap (Scott Bakula! Oh boy!) than Dr Who. The historical parts of the book were so wonderfully observed that the modern day stuff seemed pallid in comparison (although they were funnier). It was as though a set of brilliant historical novels had collided with a fairly good chick lit novel. Th...

Inheritance Books – Grace Burrowes

This week’s Inheritance Books are from the romance novelist Grace Burrowes.

Hi Grace, welcome to Inheritance Books. Please tell us a bit about yourself.

Before I attempted to write romance, I read it, sometimes at the rate of a book a day, for thirty five years. Romance novels have towed me over more shoals, as a mom, a child welfare lawyer, a woman, a person, than any other coping mechanism save perhaps really good chocolate. I believe we need the happily ever afters, we need the relief from l...

News: Two good excuses to eat chocolate

Today’s book trade announcements carried this announcement from Choc Lit http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/48820/

Which means that I am now officially contracted to Choc Lit. So are Laura James and Alison May – both of whom are friends of mine from the RNA. Hooray for all three of us!

Now, I’ve been published before, obviously, but this super duper exciting for me because my next book, Dr January, will be coming out in paperback. An actual PAPER book. Now at last my mum will be ab...

Inheritance Books – Toby Frost

I’m a big fan of Space Captain Smith, so I was absolutely over the moon when Toby Frost agreed to do an Inheritance Bookspost. For those who aren’t in the know, Toby writes steampunk flavoured sci-fi comedies. They are full of swashbuckling adventure and inspired silliness. Enough fan-girl waffle. On with the interview.

Hello Toby, welcome to Inheritance Books. Please tell us a little bit about yourself.

Hi – thanks for inviting me to appear on your blog!

I write the Space Captain Smith books, w...

Inheritance Books – Gail Barrett

This week’s intriguing Inheritance Book choice is from romantic suspense writer Gail Barrett.

Hi Gail, welcome to Inheritance Books. Tell us a bit about yourself.

I guess you could say I’m a language aficionado. I love everything to do with language — speaking, reading, translating, writing. I’ve taught Spanish and English as a Foreign Language for years. I’m also the author of thirteen romantic suspense novels which have won various awards, including the National Readers’ Choice Award, the Bo...