Eve Devon's Blog, page 4
April 4, 2017
Blog Tour!
What's in a Name?I'm with the lovely Alba in Bookland today talking about how I come up with the names for my characters and the village Whispers Wood.
If you'd love to find out who was the inspiration behind Kate Somersby, Daniel Westlake, Juliet Brown and Oscar Matthews, as well as learn some of The Little Clock House's favourite English village names, please stop by for a visit...
ALBA IN BOOKLAND: http://bit.ly/2o4xDEA
Eve xx
March 23, 2017
Publication Day!
Feeling very excited and proud that The Little Clock House on the Green is published today.As well as all the lovely links to the digital and paperback copies, I’m over the moon to announce that paperbacks of The Little Clock House on the Green are going to be in all SAINSBURY’s stores! So if, you know, you fancy buying a digital or a paperback copy you now have lots of choice ;)
Prepare for shelfie posting over the next few days but in the meantime here's a little taste of the prettiness!
I’ve so loved writing about these characters and the shenanigans they get up to in #WhispersWood – and I hope you all enjoy stepping through the front doors of The Little Clock House on the Green and that you fall in love with, Kate, Daniel, Juliet and Oscar, along with all the other characters that are gathered.
Here’s your quick list of links, but you can also find all the deets on my Book Page as well.AMAZON
GOOGLE PLAY
HARPERCOLLINS
iTUNES
KOBO
NOOK/Barnes&Noble
Love and Little Clock House kisses,
Eve xx
February 3, 2017
Starting Simply... Simply Starting...
Today I started writing my next book. As I opened a blank document I don’t know why I was surprised that my overwhelming thought, was: um…how do I do this, again? It’s the exact same thought I have every time I sit down to begin a new story!
I guess the key is to start simply. This time though as I typed the opening sentence (a simple but nicely humorous one, IMHO) I realised, ironically, that exactly one year ago today I was rushing my husband to A and E.
That trip was the start of a very long and very difficult year. A year where the challenges just did not stop coming. My husband turned out to be seriously ill with a rare variant of Guillam-Barre and ended up spending a month in hospital having his blood treated to try and reverse the damage the Miller-Fisher syndrome was wreaking on his body. After that he had to stay at a neurological rehabilitation unit to assess his motor-skills and brain function. After that he spent eight months at home doing hours upon hours of daily exercises ranging from picking up paperclips, to writing, to muscle-strengthening, to building up the stamina needed to walk one mile. After that he had to summon the confidence to interview for, and get, a new job, because he’d just left one before he got ill. And after all that he had to be able to do the new job, day in, day out.
All this, along with global events that you can’t fail to feel the impact of, made the year a giant ball of stress. The extreme kind and then the kind of insidious slow-burn, low-level stress you think you’re dealing with until you find yourself in your local supermarket, staring at the jars of coffee and wondering why there are SO many different brands, and why you can’t remember which one you buy, and why your face is wet! There have been times this year where the stress has made the symptoms from my Chiari malformation so bad that I’ve struggled to do even the simplest of tasks and I’ve got ridiculously frustrated with my inability to do All The Things. All Perfectly!
In short there have been lots of tears – grieving-tears, worry-tears, fearful-tears, utter-frustration-tears, stress-relieving-tears, and…happy-tears too.
Because three-hundred and sixty-five days simply cannot be all bad!
At least my husband and I absolutely refuse to let them be!
And so as well as the bad there has been good. I had two books publish during the year and somehow I managed to write another as well. Writing the book was, on one hand, a wonderful way of taking my mind off what was happening, and on the other, a humongous scary-difficultness!
As a writer my job is to create a world that has conflict and drama in it. But at various times this year my natural instinct, when faced with any kind of drama, has been to want to pick up a very large bat and knock it right back out the stratosphere. I quickly discovered that if I allowed my characters to resolve the conflict in their lives by simply picking up a bat and batting it away, it was going to be a very short book! Also, completely un-funny. Bit of a nightmare when you’re writing a romantic comedy to be honest. I ended up writing, and re-writing over and over until I could put the drama in without immediately wanting to delete it and, again, because twenty-four-seven, three-sixty-five can’t possibly be all bad, I eventually stumbled upon some funny and popped that in too!
I already know that this year is going to bring more challenges (because, Life, right?) but as I get back to hitting my word-count for the day, I guess all I really need to do, is set aside the fear – and simply start…
Eve xx
I guess the key is to start simply. This time though as I typed the opening sentence (a simple but nicely humorous one, IMHO) I realised, ironically, that exactly one year ago today I was rushing my husband to A and E.
That trip was the start of a very long and very difficult year. A year where the challenges just did not stop coming. My husband turned out to be seriously ill with a rare variant of Guillam-Barre and ended up spending a month in hospital having his blood treated to try and reverse the damage the Miller-Fisher syndrome was wreaking on his body. After that he had to stay at a neurological rehabilitation unit to assess his motor-skills and brain function. After that he spent eight months at home doing hours upon hours of daily exercises ranging from picking up paperclips, to writing, to muscle-strengthening, to building up the stamina needed to walk one mile. After that he had to summon the confidence to interview for, and get, a new job, because he’d just left one before he got ill. And after all that he had to be able to do the new job, day in, day out.
All this, along with global events that you can’t fail to feel the impact of, made the year a giant ball of stress. The extreme kind and then the kind of insidious slow-burn, low-level stress you think you’re dealing with until you find yourself in your local supermarket, staring at the jars of coffee and wondering why there are SO many different brands, and why you can’t remember which one you buy, and why your face is wet! There have been times this year where the stress has made the symptoms from my Chiari malformation so bad that I’ve struggled to do even the simplest of tasks and I’ve got ridiculously frustrated with my inability to do All The Things. All Perfectly!
In short there have been lots of tears – grieving-tears, worry-tears, fearful-tears, utter-frustration-tears, stress-relieving-tears, and…happy-tears too.
Because three-hundred and sixty-five days simply cannot be all bad!
At least my husband and I absolutely refuse to let them be!
And so as well as the bad there has been good. I had two books publish during the year and somehow I managed to write another as well. Writing the book was, on one hand, a wonderful way of taking my mind off what was happening, and on the other, a humongous scary-difficultness!
As a writer my job is to create a world that has conflict and drama in it. But at various times this year my natural instinct, when faced with any kind of drama, has been to want to pick up a very large bat and knock it right back out the stratosphere. I quickly discovered that if I allowed my characters to resolve the conflict in their lives by simply picking up a bat and batting it away, it was going to be a very short book! Also, completely un-funny. Bit of a nightmare when you’re writing a romantic comedy to be honest. I ended up writing, and re-writing over and over until I could put the drama in without immediately wanting to delete it and, again, because twenty-four-seven, three-sixty-five can’t possibly be all bad, I eventually stumbled upon some funny and popped that in too!
I already know that this year is going to bring more challenges (because, Life, right?) but as I get back to hitting my word-count for the day, I guess all I really need to do, is set aside the fear – and simply start…
Eve xxJune 13, 2016
STEEL HAWK
Introducing: Steel Hawk – a company of alpha-honourable heroes and spirited and strong heroines…
Heart-pounding romantic suspense set in a world of high-tech security, feuding royals, and missing diamonds. Strap in for sizzling chemistry and fast-paced, thrilling action all the way!
It all starts with an historical romantic suspense set in the birthplace of great engineering and design, The Great Exhibition, London, 1851:
BUY LINK: AMAZON
BLURB: To Love a Thief, Steel Hawk, Book 1, by Jane Beckenham
It's one thing to lose your heart. Quite another to have it stolen.
Years ago, notorious jewel thief “The Raven” vanished into the shadows. In 1851, Nathan Hawk emerges into a life of respectability, determined to make up for past sins.
He and his business partner are introducing a lock they’re so sure can’t be broken, they’re displaying a priceless diamond, the Pasha Star, at the Great Exhibition. It’s bad enough catching a light-fingered young man trying to steal the stone. Worse when he realizes it’s the daughter of his old mentor.
Rose Valetta’s father has been kidnapped, and she needs the Star to buy his freedom. She never expected to come nose-to-nose with Nathan. Their reunion is fraught with tension, especially when they discover the diamond in Nathan’s impregnable case is not the Pasha Star.
With Nathan’s reputation in tatters, they race to find the real stone before it’s too late for Rose’s father. Too late to save the empire from a usurper. And too late to keep from losing their hearts.
Product Warnings
Contains a woman who dreams of a world with a level playing field, and an ex-thief who can run from his past but can’t hide from it.
And moves to present-day: Steel Hawk has prospered for 150 years, securing some of the world’s most treasured possessions. But now a secret from the past threatens to destroy the company and a new generation must take up the fight.
BUY LINK: AMAZON
BLURB: Heart of Steel, Steel Hawk, Book 2, by Eve Devon
Colleague, friend, lover…beautiful liar?
Adam Steel is in crisis mode. A recent exposé claims a founder of Steel Hawk was actually The Raven, an infamous jewel thief. Amid the ensuing damage control, all eyes are on his ability to develop a prototype to secure and protect the royal Pasha Star diamond.
He’s further blindsided when he learns his assistant, Honeysuckle Hawk, has a sordid past he never knew about. Proving he never really knew her, never should have trusted her, and definitely shouldn’t start falling for her.
With her dirty laundry flapping in the media storm, Honeysuckle’s first instinct is to run. Two things make her stay: Adam’s insistence it’s better to show the world a united front, and her heart’s insistence by his side is where she belongs.
High stakes and long hours ignite passion…until the diamond is stolen and Adam’s own prototype shows Honeysuckle is a thief. Dare he trust her to help him expose the real criminal—before the mastermind wreaks havoc on the royal family?
Product Warnings
Contains an über-hot, alpha-geek who’s good with his hands, a sassy reformed-rebel determined to prove she’s not a flake, romantic castles, gorgeous jewels, sleek and sexy technology, heart-pounding suspense…oh, and nipple tassels!
But with the battle only half-won, STEEL HAWK is about to learn that trust has a price…
BLURB: Dangerous Illusions, Steel Hawk, Book 3, by Sarah Balance – publishing August
Keep your lovers close, your enemies closer. Especially if they’re one and the same.
With Steel Hawk still reeling from explosions at Zarrenburg Castle and at its own headquarters, company lawyer Edward Long’s legendary stoicism has been severely tested. It’s clearly an inside job, and no one is deeper inside than Edward—which leaves him squarely in the center of a frame.
Someone is using him to bring down the company he loves. Worse, the PI that Adam Hawk sends to investigate…there’s something off about her. And something that seriously turns him on.
Operating under an assumed name, Sophie Hawk aims to dig deeper into the company’s systems than any other investigator would dare. Especially with the prime suspect’s hot-chocolate gaze tracking her every move.
As their dueling intellects strike sparks, the rising heat threatens the trip wires Edward has set up around his heart—and the secret that ties him to a man who’ll stop at nothing to claim his right to rule the house of Zarrenburg. Or, if he can’t have it, destroy it—and everyone connected to it.
Product Warnings
Contains agonizingly sweet kisses, dirty thoughts, dirtier talk, mutual trust stretched to the limit, and criminal abuse of a thousand-dollar suit jacket.
About the STEEL HAWK Authors:
Take three authors from three different corners of the world…
Jane Beckenham writes historical and contemporary romance after falling for stories about love and hope. Inspired by happy ever afters she found her own true love and together they adopted and raised two daughters. She lives with her family in New Zealand where writing is her addiction – and sure beats housework!
WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER
Eve Devon writes romantic comedy, contemporary fiction and romantic suspense with sexy heroes, sassy heroines, and happily ever afters… She lives in leafy Surrey in the UK, a book-devouring, slightly melodramatic, romance-writing sassy heroine with her very own sexy-hero husband!
WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER
Sarah Ballance lives on the US mid-Atlantic coast with her husband and children. She writes in many genres and loves creating unforgettable stories while putting her characters through an unkind amount of torture—a hobby that has nothing to do with living with six children!
WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER
So if you love historical romance or contemporary romance, steam-punk elements, inventors, royalty, diamonds, bad-boys, alpha-geeks, co-workers-to-lovers, revenge, and psychological suspense with your mystery; then immerse yourself in the world of STEEL HAWK… and let the seduction begin.
STEEL HAWK – strong as Steel, watchful as a Hawk Eve xx
Heart-pounding romantic suspense set in a world of high-tech security, feuding royals, and missing diamonds. Strap in for sizzling chemistry and fast-paced, thrilling action all the way!
It all starts with an historical romantic suspense set in the birthplace of great engineering and design, The Great Exhibition, London, 1851:
BUY LINK: AMAZONBLURB: To Love a Thief, Steel Hawk, Book 1, by Jane Beckenham
It's one thing to lose your heart. Quite another to have it stolen.
Years ago, notorious jewel thief “The Raven” vanished into the shadows. In 1851, Nathan Hawk emerges into a life of respectability, determined to make up for past sins.
He and his business partner are introducing a lock they’re so sure can’t be broken, they’re displaying a priceless diamond, the Pasha Star, at the Great Exhibition. It’s bad enough catching a light-fingered young man trying to steal the stone. Worse when he realizes it’s the daughter of his old mentor.
Rose Valetta’s father has been kidnapped, and she needs the Star to buy his freedom. She never expected to come nose-to-nose with Nathan. Their reunion is fraught with tension, especially when they discover the diamond in Nathan’s impregnable case is not the Pasha Star.
With Nathan’s reputation in tatters, they race to find the real stone before it’s too late for Rose’s father. Too late to save the empire from a usurper. And too late to keep from losing their hearts.
Product Warnings
Contains a woman who dreams of a world with a level playing field, and an ex-thief who can run from his past but can’t hide from it.
And moves to present-day: Steel Hawk has prospered for 150 years, securing some of the world’s most treasured possessions. But now a secret from the past threatens to destroy the company and a new generation must take up the fight.
BUY LINK: AMAZONBLURB: Heart of Steel, Steel Hawk, Book 2, by Eve Devon
Colleague, friend, lover…beautiful liar?
Adam Steel is in crisis mode. A recent exposé claims a founder of Steel Hawk was actually The Raven, an infamous jewel thief. Amid the ensuing damage control, all eyes are on his ability to develop a prototype to secure and protect the royal Pasha Star diamond.
He’s further blindsided when he learns his assistant, Honeysuckle Hawk, has a sordid past he never knew about. Proving he never really knew her, never should have trusted her, and definitely shouldn’t start falling for her.
With her dirty laundry flapping in the media storm, Honeysuckle’s first instinct is to run. Two things make her stay: Adam’s insistence it’s better to show the world a united front, and her heart’s insistence by his side is where she belongs.
High stakes and long hours ignite passion…until the diamond is stolen and Adam’s own prototype shows Honeysuckle is a thief. Dare he trust her to help him expose the real criminal—before the mastermind wreaks havoc on the royal family?
Product Warnings
Contains an über-hot, alpha-geek who’s good with his hands, a sassy reformed-rebel determined to prove she’s not a flake, romantic castles, gorgeous jewels, sleek and sexy technology, heart-pounding suspense…oh, and nipple tassels!
But with the battle only half-won, STEEL HAWK is about to learn that trust has a price…
BLURB: Dangerous Illusions, Steel Hawk, Book 3, by Sarah Balance – publishing AugustKeep your lovers close, your enemies closer. Especially if they’re one and the same.
With Steel Hawk still reeling from explosions at Zarrenburg Castle and at its own headquarters, company lawyer Edward Long’s legendary stoicism has been severely tested. It’s clearly an inside job, and no one is deeper inside than Edward—which leaves him squarely in the center of a frame.
Someone is using him to bring down the company he loves. Worse, the PI that Adam Hawk sends to investigate…there’s something off about her. And something that seriously turns him on.
Operating under an assumed name, Sophie Hawk aims to dig deeper into the company’s systems than any other investigator would dare. Especially with the prime suspect’s hot-chocolate gaze tracking her every move.
As their dueling intellects strike sparks, the rising heat threatens the trip wires Edward has set up around his heart—and the secret that ties him to a man who’ll stop at nothing to claim his right to rule the house of Zarrenburg. Or, if he can’t have it, destroy it—and everyone connected to it.
Product Warnings
Contains agonizingly sweet kisses, dirty thoughts, dirtier talk, mutual trust stretched to the limit, and criminal abuse of a thousand-dollar suit jacket.
About the STEEL HAWK Authors:
Take three authors from three different corners of the world…
Jane Beckenham writes historical and contemporary romance after falling for stories about love and hope. Inspired by happy ever afters she found her own true love and together they adopted and raised two daughters. She lives with her family in New Zealand where writing is her addiction – and sure beats housework!
WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER
Eve Devon writes romantic comedy, contemporary fiction and romantic suspense with sexy heroes, sassy heroines, and happily ever afters… She lives in leafy Surrey in the UK, a book-devouring, slightly melodramatic, romance-writing sassy heroine with her very own sexy-hero husband!
WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER
Sarah Ballance lives on the US mid-Atlantic coast with her husband and children. She writes in many genres and loves creating unforgettable stories while putting her characters through an unkind amount of torture—a hobby that has nothing to do with living with six children!
WEBSITE FACEBOOK TWITTER
So if you love historical romance or contemporary romance, steam-punk elements, inventors, royalty, diamonds, bad-boys, alpha-geeks, co-workers-to-lovers, revenge, and psychological suspense with your mystery; then immerse yourself in the world of STEEL HAWK… and let the seduction begin.
STEEL HAWK – strong as Steel, watchful as a Hawk Eve xx
May 9, 2016
Have you met the Kings?
Have you met all of my Kings? Now that
It’s In His Kiss
is out, I thought I’d reintroduce you all…
For three years Jared King, Nora King, and Sephy King, have been in my head, on the page and, hopefully filling up your hearts :). But let’s rewind to the beginning and take a look at how one book became a series of three standalone books with connecting characters.
When I started writing Her Best Laid Plans, I knew that my heroine, Amanda Gray, was on a mission to change her life. A proponent of the ‘winging-it’ approach to life, she’s forced to conclude that moving out of the house she shares with her brother, Mikey, is only going to happen if she actually comes up with a plan. A solid plan…maybe, even, a life-plan.
Coming up with said plan becomes Amanda’s greatest challenge – especially when she gets distracted helping out her brother’s best friend, Jared King.
Hmm. Jared King..!
‘…for all that was up-front, solid, responsible and in-control about Jared – there was, lurking just beneath the surface, a hint of danger and a dark sensuousness that any woman would be inclined to want to try and entice out to play.’
Yep, Jared King is the reason one book became three.
From the moment he stepped onto the page, my own plans switched-up on me and my RomCom evolved into something a little bit more because it turned out that this corporate property investor, was way, way more complicated than just a man who loves life most when a plan comes together.
Ten years before, my ex bad-boy businessman hero had walked away from his birth-right…and his family. So when one of his sisters’ tracks him down and tells him their father is dying and that the family business is in trouble…well, let’s just say my RomCom developed a new theme: family!
The bonds between family members can be strong or they can be weak. They can be simple or complicated. They can also be all of these things at once!
As Amanda started helping Jared re-connect with his father, mother, and two sisters, Nora and Sephy, I started realising that Nora and Sephy weren’t through with me. They needed to explore how the absence of the brother they’d hero-worshipped growing up had impacted their lives.
And because life is always better-lived if you can laugh while you learn, I decided it was only fair they each got their own RomCom with a happy ever after too and so three RomComs about love, life, laughter, and family – the King family – were born.
In Nora King’s story, The Love List we learn she took the role of responsible child at nineteen when Jared left and she decided she wanted to be everything her father needed to run the family business.
Now, ten years later, for workaholic Nora, falling in love is totally off her To Do List. She doesn’t have time. She’s too busy doing everything in her power to keep her grief contained while keeping the family business afloat after the death of their father.
Enter sexy, laid-back disaster relief worker, Ethan Love! He’s in town to ask her a special favour and his charm and perception is about to crash through all her barriers and start chipping away at her self-imposed state of suspended animation.
And finally I hope you enjoy the last instalment – Sephy King’s story – It’s In His Kiss. Sephy is the youngest of the King siblings. She reacted to Jared’s leaving by ditching responsibility and embracing full-on rebellious-teenager mode. Now, ten years later, twenty-five-year-old Sephy is determined to prove she’s capable of providing for herself and her daughter, Daisy.
Blurb: It’s In His Kiss
Who do you turn to when things go wrong?
Your best friend. Obviously.
Sephy King’s worked flat-out to make her new lingerie business a success, only there’s a tiny snag – the marketing photos for the launch party are a disaster.
Luke Jackson will help her, won’t he? They just need to strip off, model gorgeous, sexy underwear together and take more photos! So what if the stunning body he’s been hiding makes Sephy’s eyes pop out? And when he holds her, she suddenly wishes they were in her bedroom…alone? He’s her best friend.
Then Luke asks Sephy for a return favour: to pose as his fake fiancée to get his parents temporarily off his back. It’s a risky strategy – but she’s sure she can pull it off.
Until he kisses her…
So there you have it - three RomComs about love, life, laughter and family. Each of them can be read standalone but if you love making book connections, you can always start at the beginning and work your way through!
Eve xx
For three years Jared King, Nora King, and Sephy King, have been in my head, on the page and, hopefully filling up your hearts :). But let’s rewind to the beginning and take a look at how one book became a series of three standalone books with connecting characters.
When I started writing Her Best Laid Plans, I knew that my heroine, Amanda Gray, was on a mission to change her life. A proponent of the ‘winging-it’ approach to life, she’s forced to conclude that moving out of the house she shares with her brother, Mikey, is only going to happen if she actually comes up with a plan. A solid plan…maybe, even, a life-plan.
Coming up with said plan becomes Amanda’s greatest challenge – especially when she gets distracted helping out her brother’s best friend, Jared King.
Hmm. Jared King..!
‘…for all that was up-front, solid, responsible and in-control about Jared – there was, lurking just beneath the surface, a hint of danger and a dark sensuousness that any woman would be inclined to want to try and entice out to play.’
Yep, Jared King is the reason one book became three.
From the moment he stepped onto the page, my own plans switched-up on me and my RomCom evolved into something a little bit more because it turned out that this corporate property investor, was way, way more complicated than just a man who loves life most when a plan comes together.
Ten years before, my ex bad-boy businessman hero had walked away from his birth-right…and his family. So when one of his sisters’ tracks him down and tells him their father is dying and that the family business is in trouble…well, let’s just say my RomCom developed a new theme: family!
The bonds between family members can be strong or they can be weak. They can be simple or complicated. They can also be all of these things at once!
As Amanda started helping Jared re-connect with his father, mother, and two sisters, Nora and Sephy, I started realising that Nora and Sephy weren’t through with me. They needed to explore how the absence of the brother they’d hero-worshipped growing up had impacted their lives.
And because life is always better-lived if you can laugh while you learn, I decided it was only fair they each got their own RomCom with a happy ever after too and so three RomComs about love, life, laughter, and family – the King family – were born.
In Nora King’s story, The Love List we learn she took the role of responsible child at nineteen when Jared left and she decided she wanted to be everything her father needed to run the family business.
Now, ten years later, for workaholic Nora, falling in love is totally off her To Do List. She doesn’t have time. She’s too busy doing everything in her power to keep her grief contained while keeping the family business afloat after the death of their father.
Enter sexy, laid-back disaster relief worker, Ethan Love! He’s in town to ask her a special favour and his charm and perception is about to crash through all her barriers and start chipping away at her self-imposed state of suspended animation.
And finally I hope you enjoy the last instalment – Sephy King’s story – It’s In His Kiss. Sephy is the youngest of the King siblings. She reacted to Jared’s leaving by ditching responsibility and embracing full-on rebellious-teenager mode. Now, ten years later, twenty-five-year-old Sephy is determined to prove she’s capable of providing for herself and her daughter, Daisy.
Blurb: It’s In His Kiss
Who do you turn to when things go wrong?
Your best friend. Obviously.
Sephy King’s worked flat-out to make her new lingerie business a success, only there’s a tiny snag – the marketing photos for the launch party are a disaster.
Luke Jackson will help her, won’t he? They just need to strip off, model gorgeous, sexy underwear together and take more photos! So what if the stunning body he’s been hiding makes Sephy’s eyes pop out? And when he holds her, she suddenly wishes they were in her bedroom…alone? He’s her best friend.
Then Luke asks Sephy for a return favour: to pose as his fake fiancée to get his parents temporarily off his back. It’s a risky strategy – but she’s sure she can pull it off.
Until he kisses her…
So there you have it - three RomComs about love, life, laughter and family. Each of them can be read standalone but if you love making book connections, you can always start at the beginning and work your way through!
Eve xx
April 22, 2016
It's In His Kiss: Blog Tour
Blog Tour Details I'm super pleased to be visiting some fabulous blogs to help spread the word about It's In His Kiss, which released 21st April (yay!).I'll share the links here for each day, if anyone wants to follow along and learn more about the book, my writing, and...me!
Friday 22nd April:
Bookaholic Holly
Click on the link above to get an excerpt from It's In His Kiss!
Thursday 21st April:
Jane Hunt Writer Book Reviews
Fancy reading some fun facts about kissing!
Eve xx
March 21, 2016
Introducing my next book...
I promised that I'd show you all the cover of my next book soon. So, without further ado...
It's In His Kiss releases in ebook format 21st April 2016 and paperback format 16th June 2016.
Blurb:
Who do you turn to when things go wrong?
Your best friend. Obviously.
Sephy King’s worked flat-out to make her new lingerie business a success, only there’s a tiny snag – the marketing photos for the launch party are a disaster.
Luke Jackson will help her, won’t he? They just need to strip off, model gorgeous, sexy underwear together and take more photos! So what if the stunning body he’s been hiding makes Sephy’s eyes pop out? And when he holds her, she suddenly wishes they were in her bedroom…alone? He’s her best friend.
Then Luke asks Sephy for a return favour: to pose as his fake fiancée to get his parents temporarily off his back. It’s a risky strategy – but she’s sure she can pull it off.
Until he kisses her…
Links:
AMAZON
BARNES&NOBLE
GOOGLEPLAY
HARPERCOLLINS
KOBO
iTUNES
SAINSBURY’S ENTERTAINMENT ON DEMAND
It's In His Kiss is a standalone novel, but if you happen to fall in love with the King family, then you can also read Jared King's story in Her Best Laid Plans, and Nora King's story in The Love List.
Eve xx
It's In His Kiss releases in ebook format 21st April 2016 and paperback format 16th June 2016.Blurb:
Who do you turn to when things go wrong?
Your best friend. Obviously.
Sephy King’s worked flat-out to make her new lingerie business a success, only there’s a tiny snag – the marketing photos for the launch party are a disaster.
Luke Jackson will help her, won’t he? They just need to strip off, model gorgeous, sexy underwear together and take more photos! So what if the stunning body he’s been hiding makes Sephy’s eyes pop out? And when he holds her, she suddenly wishes they were in her bedroom…alone? He’s her best friend.
Then Luke asks Sephy for a return favour: to pose as his fake fiancée to get his parents temporarily off his back. It’s a risky strategy – but she’s sure she can pull it off.
Until he kisses her…
Links:
AMAZON
BARNES&NOBLE
GOOGLEPLAY
HARPERCOLLINS
KOBO
iTUNES
SAINSBURY’S ENTERTAINMENT ON DEMAND
It's In His Kiss is a standalone novel, but if you happen to fall in love with the King family, then you can also read Jared King's story in Her Best Laid Plans, and Nora King's story in The Love List.
Eve xx
March 15, 2016
Throwing Out The Plot!
So it’s halfway through March—Easter is right around the corner and according to the plot I had carefully constructed for 2016 I was supposed to be 83k into my next book. I was also supposed to have redesigned my website, added pages to advertise all the bookswag I make for authors and written at least six super-duper fascinating blog articles.
Like any good plot, I also had sub-plots, like exercising every day, finishing the throw I’ve been knitting for two winters now and de-cluttering every room in the house in preparation for a complete redecoration later in the year.
I know! This could all definitely be classed as a little over-ambitious. But somehow when you’re plotting out the year in that post-Christmassy alcohol-fuelled haze, it’s easy to cast yourself as a super-hero who can achieve ALL THE THINGS. Besides! Plots can be tweaked—are usually tweaked—because, you know: Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans…
Well, I haven’t redesigned my website, and I’m not 83k of the way through a first draft of my next book. The throw is still about seventeen squares short and the most creative idea I’ve come up with is to paint the lounge grey. A colour that was all the rage…three years ago!
See, while I was busy fine-tuning my plot for the year, my husband became seriously ill. A rush-job to A&E, followed by hours of tests, admittance and a very scary wait for diagnosis, which actually turned out to be Miller-Fisher syndrome (a rare form of Guillain-Barre), meant that he spent most of February in hospital and then a specialist neuro rehab unit. He’s home now and recovering well but it’s going to be about six months before he’s able to do all the things he used to do and return to work.
I threw my plot for the year out the window on the way home from the hospital that first night. Because when the person you care most about in the world is suffering, life very simply gets divided into: Things That Can Wait and Things That Can’t. I needed a new plot. One that was all about him. Not me.
Anything that wasn’t going to help him could wait. Anything that wasn’t going to help me help him could wait and anything that required my creative energy was going to have to wait until, well, whenever I deemed it safe to come back.
As my gorgeous man and I set about re-plotting our immediate future, what emerges is a new structure with a new set of sub-plots. I’m sure there’ll be a few more tweaks to the plot over the year but I’m surprisingly okay with that. And as soon as I felt ready to let the muse back into my life, it wrapped me in a bear-hug, and like any BFF, told me it wasn’t offended, didn’t feel neglected, and truly understood.
So I just wanted to say a huge, heartfelt thank you for your understanding while I concentrated on Life for a bit, and to also tell you all that, excitingly, while I’ve been absent, some rather lovely people have been working to get my next book ready for release.
It’s In His Kiss releases 21st April. Squee!
Also very exciting is the fact that I’ve seen the cover for it…
Watch this space, my lovelies!
Eve xx
Like any good plot, I also had sub-plots, like exercising every day, finishing the throw I’ve been knitting for two winters now and de-cluttering every room in the house in preparation for a complete redecoration later in the year.
I know! This could all definitely be classed as a little over-ambitious. But somehow when you’re plotting out the year in that post-Christmassy alcohol-fuelled haze, it’s easy to cast yourself as a super-hero who can achieve ALL THE THINGS. Besides! Plots can be tweaked—are usually tweaked—because, you know: Life is what happens while you’re busy making plans…
Well, I haven’t redesigned my website, and I’m not 83k of the way through a first draft of my next book. The throw is still about seventeen squares short and the most creative idea I’ve come up with is to paint the lounge grey. A colour that was all the rage…three years ago!
See, while I was busy fine-tuning my plot for the year, my husband became seriously ill. A rush-job to A&E, followed by hours of tests, admittance and a very scary wait for diagnosis, which actually turned out to be Miller-Fisher syndrome (a rare form of Guillain-Barre), meant that he spent most of February in hospital and then a specialist neuro rehab unit. He’s home now and recovering well but it’s going to be about six months before he’s able to do all the things he used to do and return to work.
I threw my plot for the year out the window on the way home from the hospital that first night. Because when the person you care most about in the world is suffering, life very simply gets divided into: Things That Can Wait and Things That Can’t. I needed a new plot. One that was all about him. Not me.
Anything that wasn’t going to help him could wait. Anything that wasn’t going to help me help him could wait and anything that required my creative energy was going to have to wait until, well, whenever I deemed it safe to come back.
As my gorgeous man and I set about re-plotting our immediate future, what emerges is a new structure with a new set of sub-plots. I’m sure there’ll be a few more tweaks to the plot over the year but I’m surprisingly okay with that. And as soon as I felt ready to let the muse back into my life, it wrapped me in a bear-hug, and like any BFF, told me it wasn’t offended, didn’t feel neglected, and truly understood.
So I just wanted to say a huge, heartfelt thank you for your understanding while I concentrated on Life for a bit, and to also tell you all that, excitingly, while I’ve been absent, some rather lovely people have been working to get my next book ready for release.
It’s In His Kiss releases 21st April. Squee!
Also very exciting is the fact that I’ve seen the cover for it…
Watch this space, my lovelies!
Eve xx
January 18, 2016
Cover Reveal
Ooh, first blog post of 2016 :)
And what better way to start than with a cover reveal for the lovely Jane Hunt's new book which releases 9th February 2016:
The Dangerous Gift
So without further ado....
After a tragic plane crash kills Jennie Taylor’s guardians, she returns to her childhood home—and her first love, Jared Stewart.
At just eighteen years old, Jennie had left the Unicorn Ranch in Texas to seek a life in the outside world. But she wasn’t just running toward independence. Heartbroken and confused, Jennie fled her home after Jared harshly rejected her on the eve of her birthday.
Now she must choose between making a new life on the ranch she has grown to love, or returning to her simple but empty life in England. The choice seems obvious at first, but nothing in life is simple…
Jared is forced to share control of his beloved ranch with the woman he wants but can't have.
When Jennie receives an anonymous note, she goes to Jared for support. But what she finds is more than she was prepared for, driving the two further apart than ever. When an old friend is murdered and suspicious accidents escalate, endangering Jennie’s safety, Jared becomes her reluctant protector.
Jennie knows Jared is hiding something, but does he really want her gone from the ranch? And if so, could he be the one behind the ominous threats?
Determined to prove Jared isn't involved, Jennie turns detective. Can she succeed in her courageous but reckless investigation…or is the truth a dangerous gift she won’t survive?
COVER DESIGNER:
https://www.facebook.com/TOJPublishingServices
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ‘Writing has touched my life in every decade. At fifty, I took a risk and made writing my career, fulfilling a lifetime ambition.’
I enjoy writing blogs, book reviews and especially stories. Vivid imagery, atmospheric settings, strong females and sensual males are essential for my stories. Everyday life and ordinary people inspire me. How would someone react, if faced with something extraordinary? A thread of romance runs through my all my books, whether they be suspense, fantasy or historical.
I want to let my readers escape their lives for a while, experience new places, new people and most importantly, new emotional lows and highs My favorite parts of the writing process are; finding a person, event or place that makes me want to write a story about it and the writing itself; when your fingers cannot type fast enough, to transcribe your thoughts.
Family is very important to me. My two children are my greatest achievement to date.
I am an animal welfare supporter and regularly use social media to promote animal welfare issues.
Limitless Publishing:
http://www.limitlesspublishing.net/authors/jane-hunt/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jane.hunt.509511
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jolliffe03
Website: http://jolliffe01.com/
Blog: http://jolliffe01.com/blog/ Eve xx
And what better way to start than with a cover reveal for the lovely Jane Hunt's new book which releases 9th February 2016:
The Dangerous Gift
So without further ado....
After a tragic plane crash kills Jennie Taylor’s guardians, she returns to her childhood home—and her first love, Jared Stewart.At just eighteen years old, Jennie had left the Unicorn Ranch in Texas to seek a life in the outside world. But she wasn’t just running toward independence. Heartbroken and confused, Jennie fled her home after Jared harshly rejected her on the eve of her birthday.
Now she must choose between making a new life on the ranch she has grown to love, or returning to her simple but empty life in England. The choice seems obvious at first, but nothing in life is simple…
Jared is forced to share control of his beloved ranch with the woman he wants but can't have.
When Jennie receives an anonymous note, she goes to Jared for support. But what she finds is more than she was prepared for, driving the two further apart than ever. When an old friend is murdered and suspicious accidents escalate, endangering Jennie’s safety, Jared becomes her reluctant protector.
Jennie knows Jared is hiding something, but does he really want her gone from the ranch? And if so, could he be the one behind the ominous threats?
Determined to prove Jared isn't involved, Jennie turns detective. Can she succeed in her courageous but reckless investigation…or is the truth a dangerous gift she won’t survive?
COVER DESIGNER:
https://www.facebook.com/TOJPublishingServices
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ‘Writing has touched my life in every decade. At fifty, I took a risk and made writing my career, fulfilling a lifetime ambition.’I enjoy writing blogs, book reviews and especially stories. Vivid imagery, atmospheric settings, strong females and sensual males are essential for my stories. Everyday life and ordinary people inspire me. How would someone react, if faced with something extraordinary? A thread of romance runs through my all my books, whether they be suspense, fantasy or historical.
I want to let my readers escape their lives for a while, experience new places, new people and most importantly, new emotional lows and highs My favorite parts of the writing process are; finding a person, event or place that makes me want to write a story about it and the writing itself; when your fingers cannot type fast enough, to transcribe your thoughts.
Family is very important to me. My two children are my greatest achievement to date.
I am an animal welfare supporter and regularly use social media to promote animal welfare issues.
Limitless Publishing:
http://www.limitlesspublishing.net/authors/jane-hunt/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jane.hunt.509511
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jolliffe03
Website: http://jolliffe01.com/
Blog: http://jolliffe01.com/blog/ Eve xx
December 1, 2015
#NaNoWriMo I Definitely Did it My Way!
Well it’s the 1st of December which means #NaNoWriMo is over for another year. How did you all get on? I knew I wouldn’t get to 50k but I’m really pleased to have written 22, 157 words in a month where I would never normally get time to write that much.
I’m also really pleased to have got to know my characters, so hopefully no more day trips to Tangent Land. Although never say never! Sometimes it’s good to let your characters act a little out of left field, and I say, hey—let them sabotage their own lives as much as they want if it’s adding to the conflict, pace and plot—just so long as they don’t sabotage your life in the process. All the angst, all the second-guessing, all the panic about not getting your character arc right is held at bay when you’re writing fast, and usually means you have a lot of thinking to do during the second draft.
Some writers are happiest writing that way. Letting the plot develop completely through the characters actions and then, second draft, they figure out the theme and the truth they’re trying to convey and make sure it’s threaded through the entire manuscript.
I still prefer to get the setup mostly right first draft and then use the second draft to layer in more depth, more atmosphere…more everything, really. It’s a slower write first time around but works for me.
This year #NaNoWriMo has been a strange mix—trying to write fast whenever I got the time but stalling or hanging back because I didn’t have all the facts at my fingertips. Note to self: next time I do #NaNoWriMo, I either need to have done more research into my characters’ careers, or, I need to write about something I know inside-out, or I need for their jobs to not be important to internal or external plot!
I’d done a little research prior to starting this WIP. Mostly to see if what I was thinking about was feasible for my characters and where they were in their lives but it turns out I could have done more thinking about all those little details too. Turns out I really hate writing things like, “Insert fantastically brilliant play-on-words name for company here” or “XXX”! Every time I had to do this I lost my flow and did way too much of this: One of my many works of art under the series title “Procrastination”!
Sometimes I research a lot before starting a book. Sometimes I complete the majority of research between first and second draft, and sometimes, if I’m really stuck on getting the words on the page but want to keep in the zone, I research alongside writing the book.
During the last four weeks here are some of the things I’ve researched for this WIP:
Apartments in Hoxton, London
How to brew beer.
How to start, finance, equip and promote a microbrewery.
Wedding cakes: how to make the perfect chiffon sponge.
Domestic kitchens versus commercial kitchens.
The latest trending wedding colours/themes/cake decorations.
Hyperventilation.
And…how to make the perfect margarita—okay, obviously I already knew this one!!!
Hmm…it seems my research has mostly fallen into two areas and no doubt there’ll be a lot more undertaken while completing this WIP…possibly along the lines of drinking beer or margaritas and eating cake!
Congratulations to all of you have taken part in #NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve experienced some real writing ups and downs this month but to be honest that’s what writing is all about. I’m really pleased with where I ended up and as an extra bonus I’ve got back into blogging again! Watch this space for my usual author spotlights, interviews, and book news and hopefully a few more personal posts on life and writing.
Happy countdown to the Holidays! Eve xx
I’m also really pleased to have got to know my characters, so hopefully no more day trips to Tangent Land. Although never say never! Sometimes it’s good to let your characters act a little out of left field, and I say, hey—let them sabotage their own lives as much as they want if it’s adding to the conflict, pace and plot—just so long as they don’t sabotage your life in the process. All the angst, all the second-guessing, all the panic about not getting your character arc right is held at bay when you’re writing fast, and usually means you have a lot of thinking to do during the second draft.
Some writers are happiest writing that way. Letting the plot develop completely through the characters actions and then, second draft, they figure out the theme and the truth they’re trying to convey and make sure it’s threaded through the entire manuscript.
I still prefer to get the setup mostly right first draft and then use the second draft to layer in more depth, more atmosphere…more everything, really. It’s a slower write first time around but works for me.
This year #NaNoWriMo has been a strange mix—trying to write fast whenever I got the time but stalling or hanging back because I didn’t have all the facts at my fingertips. Note to self: next time I do #NaNoWriMo, I either need to have done more research into my characters’ careers, or, I need to write about something I know inside-out, or I need for their jobs to not be important to internal or external plot!
I’d done a little research prior to starting this WIP. Mostly to see if what I was thinking about was feasible for my characters and where they were in their lives but it turns out I could have done more thinking about all those little details too. Turns out I really hate writing things like, “Insert fantastically brilliant play-on-words name for company here” or “XXX”! Every time I had to do this I lost my flow and did way too much of this: One of my many works of art under the series title “Procrastination”!
Sometimes I research a lot before starting a book. Sometimes I complete the majority of research between first and second draft, and sometimes, if I’m really stuck on getting the words on the page but want to keep in the zone, I research alongside writing the book.During the last four weeks here are some of the things I’ve researched for this WIP:
Apartments in Hoxton, London
How to brew beer.
How to start, finance, equip and promote a microbrewery.
Wedding cakes: how to make the perfect chiffon sponge.
Domestic kitchens versus commercial kitchens.
The latest trending wedding colours/themes/cake decorations.
Hyperventilation.
And…how to make the perfect margarita—okay, obviously I already knew this one!!!
Hmm…it seems my research has mostly fallen into two areas and no doubt there’ll be a lot more undertaken while completing this WIP…possibly along the lines of drinking beer or margaritas and eating cake!
Congratulations to all of you have taken part in #NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve experienced some real writing ups and downs this month but to be honest that’s what writing is all about. I’m really pleased with where I ended up and as an extra bonus I’ve got back into blogging again! Watch this space for my usual author spotlights, interviews, and book news and hopefully a few more personal posts on life and writing.
Happy countdown to the Holidays! Eve xx
