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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...

Inheritance Books – Donna Douglas

Today I have the lovely Donna Douglas telling me about her Inheritance Books.

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

Donna Douglas

Hello, my name’s Donna Douglas I’m the author of The Nightingale Girls, the first in a series of stories set in an East End hospital during the 1930s. I was born and brought up in south London, but 20 years ago I moved with my husband, daughter and cat up to the beautiful city of York (quite a departure for someone who’d rarely ventured north of...

Inheritance Books; Jane Lovering

Today, Jane Lovering, winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award this year, tells us about her Inheritance Books.

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

I grew up in Exeter, then moved to North Yorkshire, where I, sadly, continue to grow outwards, surrounded by pets of most species and a lot of children. Which are mine, it’s not like I collect them or anything… I write romantic comedies for Choc Lit, which are described as ‘quirky’, which I think is just a polite way...

Inheritance Books: Carrie Lynn Barker

This a new feature on my blog where guest authors and readers will tell me about the books they love. The idea is based on Inheritance Tracks from Saturday Live on Radio 4. Today, I’m talking to my fellow Uncial author, Carrie Lynn Barker.

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

I love to write and I’ve been doing it all my life. The first novel I read was Black Beauty. I was five. My first novel was published in 2010. My series that started with Revelations will reach t...

Goodreads Book Review: Vampire State of Mind by Jane Lovering

I haven’t read a vampire book since I tried (and failed) to read Twilight books, but I liked the other Jane Lovering books I’ve read so I downloaded the sample chapters. I zipped through them and immediately downloaded the full book (I LOVE the instant gratification of Kindle!).

Vampire State of Mind deals with Vampires, Humans and humanity. It’s dark and, in places, very funny. The world created is detailed and believable; Buffy meets Thursday Next in the best possible way. The Dead Run (a ra...

A guest post for the Romaniacs – Bunsen burners, chocolate and silly names

Today I’m visiting the Romaniacs blog. They were kind enough to ask me about the conflict betweenthe scientific and creative sides of the mind. They also asked me about chocolate, which is an important part of my life!http://tinyurl.com/cnx8f96

Inheritance Books – like Desert Island Discs, but for books

I was going to post this at the weekend, but since it’s Booklover’s day, I thought I’d post it early.

In September I will be starting a series of posts called Inheritance Books, where people tell me which book they’ve ‘inherited’ from the generation above and which book they would leave to later generations. It’s open to anyone who has a beloved book (or two) that they want to talk about. BBC Radio 4 listener’s might spot that it’s based on the Inheritance Tracks feature on Saturday Live.

This...

Goodreads Book Review: The Runaway Actress by Victoria Connelly

The Runaway Actress by Victoria Connelly

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Connie Gordon gets sick of the pressures of Hollywood stardom and runs away to her mother’s home town and HQ of her fan club – a remote village in Scotland. Maggie runs the Connie Gordon fan club as well as the only shop in the village. There’s a playwright called Alastair who has also run away from London to live in a house in the middle of the hills.

Although there are two love stories in the book, the real story was about Maggie...