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January 23, 2021
What I learnt this week: 23rd January 2021
December 23, 2020
What I learnt this week: Christmas is coming, though not as we know it
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December 9, 2020
What I learnt this week: 9th December 2020
November 26, 2020
What I learnt this month: November 2020
October 8, 2020
What I learnt this week: 8th October 2020
September 11, 2020
What I learnt this week: my first venture into self-publishing
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August 13, 2020
What I learnt this month: August 2020
July 3, 2020
Up Close and Personal
Published by One More Chapter (ebook, 12th June)
She can’t let him out of her sight
British actor Zac Edwards is the latest heartthrob to hit the red carpets. Hot, talented and rich, he sends women wild…all except one.
Close protection officer Kat Parker hasn’t got time to play celebrity games. She has one job: to protect Zac from the stalker that seems to be dogging his every move.
Zac might get her hot under her very starched collar, but Kat’s a professional – and sleeping with Zac is no way part of her remit…
June 19, 2020
What I learnt this week: 19th June 2020
Books, books, books…a round up!
This is turning out to be one heck of a month for me. So much happening in my little book world, I thought you might like an update. I hoped you might like an update.
First off, we have The New Guy, which was launched in March. It’s currently FREE on Kindle! So if you’ve not read it, now is a great time to try it out (then hopefully you’ll enjoy it so much, you’ll want to buy the next two. At least that’s the plan). It also came out in paperback this week, which is when the whole writing a book thing becomes real, because your name, your words are there, in your hand. Looking like a proper book.
Last Friday, my second book with One More Chapter was launched. Remember this one? Up Close and Personal is a twist on the usual bodyguard theme. This time it’s Kat Parker who’s the bodyguard, and British actor Zac Edwards the man she’s tasked with protecting. And definitely not falling in love with. I’ve added two visuals here, because I’m not sure which I love most. The guys at OMC are so good at making the covers stand out.
And now I have a cover and a blurb for my third book! For fans of Strictly, we have…. Strictly Come Dating.
Here’s the blurb:
Saturday nights are strictly for dancing…
As the glitter ball shimmers and sequins flash, forty-year-old Maggie remembers the pull of the dancefloor. But now, as a newly divorced mum of two, Maggie’s certain her dancing days are over. Or are they…?
Encouraged by her friends, Maggie dusts off her silver stilettoes and enrols for dancing classes, all she needs now is the perfect partner.
Enter Seb. Young, carefree and hot as hell, Seb is definitely a perfect 10! Even though everything about him is outrageously inappropriate! But as Seb sweeps her across the dancefloor every week, Maggie begins to see a new side to him; kind, caring, funny, strong.
And Maggie realises that he’s the only one she’d like to foxtrot with…perhaps even forever?
If that’s got you wanting to put on your sequins, you can pre -order here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B087M1SMCP
And don’t panic if you can’t keep pace with all these books. I do have one more coming out later in the year (my self-published Christmas book) but then you’ll get a well deserved break from me. Next year’s book has yet to be written!
May 22, 2020
What I learnt this week: 22nd May
A few weeks of self-publishing
In October (if all goes according to plan) A Little Christmas Hope will hit the Amazon book shelf. It’s the final part of the Christmas wishes collection, following on from A Little Christmas Faith and A Little Christmas Charm. You don’t have to have read the other two before this one, but if you have, you will recognise some of the characters, including these little devils.
A Little Christmas Hope is my first attempt at self-publishing. Fear not, I’ve got the experts in for the important parts; the cover will be designed by a professional cover artist and the content has been edited by a pro, too. Still, this time, the final responsibility for the book will fall with me…and already I’m in a quandary.
Do I have a cover that fits with the previous two in the series, which were with my old publisher? Do I reflect my new publisher instead? Maybe pump for a middle ground?
Or go with something completely different. HELP! Thankfully I have until August to think about this.
As for the content, that’s what I’ve been doing over the last few weeks while I’ve been ‘between books’. The manuscript for Strictly Come Dating has been submitted and I’m waiting on edits and a direction on ‘the next book’, so I’ve used this time to grapple with the Kindle Create self-publishing tool. I think (hope?!) I now have a manuscript in the right format. Sadly it’s only now dawning on me that the final proof read is down to….err, me. That’s the same me who paints without masking tape or dust covers, believes being 80% there is a great target but 70% is probably good enough. And who lives by her Dad’s motto. A blind man on a galloping horse will never notice. GULP!
So if you ever get round to buying and reading A Little Christmas Hope (it should be available for pre-order in August), please excuse the cover if it’s trying to do too much. It won’t be the cover artist’s fault, it will be my lack of direction. And perhaps when you’re reading it you could be, if not a blind man on a galloping horse, then at least one shutting his eyes while riding a fairly fast one?
