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Inheritance Books – C S Fuqua

This week, Chris Fuqua shares his Inheritance Books.

Hi Chris, welcome to the blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

I attended a rural elementary school in the 1960s. The third grade teacher, a crone by the name of Campbell, lived down to every expectation one might define as the worst in professional educators. Yet, despite her delight in beating kids in the back with a thick paddle and denying them bathroom breaks until they wet themselves which also brought out the paddle, she recognized in so...

Jem and the Holograms – remember them?

A few days ago, I had a Twitter conversation with @RFlong, @cathryanhoward and @ickle_tayto about Jem dolls being reissued as special edition toys. I was ridiculously excited about the news. Because in my garage, I had this:

I didn’t grow up in the UK (we travelled around a lot, of which more later), so I never actually saw Jem and Holograms on TV. I have a vague recollection of a video with a couple of episodes on it, but I’ve no idea what happened to that. So, how come I’ve got a load of Jem...

Inheritance Books – Elizabeth Mahadeo

This week Elizabeth Mahadeo shares her Inheritance Books.

Hi Elizabeth, welcome to my blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

I’m a mother, Registered Dental Hygienist and author. I recently authored and published the children’s book, ‘Teddy Visits the Dentist’, an educational resource for a preventative appointment at the dental office. I look forward to the launch of my next book in November 2012, ‘Teddy Gets a Filling’. I have worked in dental offices for fifteen years and practiced Dental Hygi...

Spellbindingly Fun Blog Party

Here’s some I made earlier.

Today I’m joining Jan Horton’s Spellbindingly fun blog party to celebrate the launch of her new book How do You Voodoo

When Janice said, think of your object of desire, I spent some time fantasising about holidays and cake (which are my default objects of desire – holidays eating cake, holidays baking cakes, cake with cake…). Then reality broke in and I realised I had a 102 things to do instead of wasting time daydreaming about cake. I thought, hey, this is a voodoo...

Inheritance Books – Deborah Swift

This week, I have historical novelist Deborah Swift visiting the blog to share her inheritance books. I met Deborah at the Romantic Novelists’ Association conference earlier this year, where we had a lovely chat about period costumes and covers with headless women on them .

Hello Deborah. Welcome to my blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

I am a novelist and poet from a small village on the edge of the English Lake District. My writing is strongly influenced by my previous career as a set and c...

Inheritance Books – Annie Burrows

Hello Annie. Welcome to my blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

Thanks for the opportunity to talk about my favourite books, Rhoda. I’m Annie Burrows, by the way, and nowadays I write light hearted Regency romances for Harlequin Mills & Boon.

I come from a family of bookworms. Every Saturday, my parents would take me to the local library to select as many books as we were allowed to take home. At Christmas, I always got an annual of some sort, and, more than even the stories and brightly coloure...

Having a Ball – cover art

Having a Ball

Ta daah! The cover art for my next book Having a Ball has arrived. I’m so excited about it I can’t stop smiling.

In case you were wondering what Having a Ball is all about (you were wondering – right?), here’s the blurb:

When the going gets tough, the tough throw a party.

Stevie has always relied on her brother to bail her out of trouble. Now she needs to prove to him that she can be independent and mature. When she takes on a job organising a charity ball for some slightly barmy re...

Inheritance Books – Melinda Hammond

This week, award winning historical romance novelist, Melinda Hammond shares her Inheritance Books.

Hello Melinda. Welcome to my blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t making up stories, and had my first historical romantic adventures published in the 1980s by Robert Hale, in 2008 I began writing as Sarah Mallory for Harlequin Mills & Boon and now have over 20 titles published, most of them Georgian or Regency romances. I live in an old farmhouse on the Pennin...

Inheritance Books – Maryann Miller

This week’s Inheritance Books are from Maryanne Miller, writer of crime novels and friend of libraries.

Hi Maryann, welcome to my blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

Hi, I’m Maryann Miller, an author and part-time farmer here on my little ranch in East Texas. My latest release is a police procedural mystery, Open Season, which just came out as an e-book, and it got terrific reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal. It was first released in hardcover and went through three printings....

Inheritance Books: Linda Palmer

Today’s Inheritance Books are from romance writer Linda Palmer.

Hello Linda. Welcome to my blog. Tell me a bit about yourself.

I’ve been writing for fun since the third grade and actually have a letter from my teacher to parents predicting that I would be a writer someday. My early works were poems. From there I moved up to short stories and then to full-length fiction. I’ve done the category romance thing (twenty-one books published by Silhouette Books as Linda Varner). I’m now writing teen pa...