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Take it away, Mr G!

Today, the unstoppable UNTOUCHABLE blog tour alights at Grab This Book, where the fabulous Mr G talks to me about all the things.

“Grace, meet Vicky. Vicky, meet Grace”

Launch day for UNTOUCHABLE, kicking off with a brilliant Q&A, brainchild of writer Vicky Newham. Catch up with Grace in conversation with Vicky here.

Something for the weekend?

 

 

 

 

Just a week to go to the paperback launch. And to celebrate the run-up to publication, Transworld has dropped the price of the ebook to £1.99.

Grab it here while you can!

The Literary Review!

I’m not 15-years-old, nor American, so going ‘Squeeee!’ is out of the question. But I’m doing something similar about this write-up for UNTOUCHABLE in The Literary Review.

(Just a bit scared I might be nominated for their Bad Sex Award.)

My new fetish?

Look what turned up in a delivery van today. Twenty-five sparkling new copies of UNTOUCHABLE, hot off the press. And what you can’t appreciate from this pic is their lovely velvety covers. Soooo strokeable, I’m having trouble putting them down.

What I’m Watching: Girls

I’m trying to remember when I first heard about Girls. It might have been when that whole ridiculous Lena Dunham abuse thing came out. Or maybe just that I kept seeing her name everywhere.

Anyway, Girls hit my radar a while back and just a few months ago I finally got around to watching the first episode. You know that thing where you meet some bloke and just know he’s The One? Well, Girls was like that for me. Minutes in and I was hooked. End of Season Four and I’m still bewitched and desperate for more.

I am totally in awe of Lena Dunham. Mostly her prodigious talent – she writes, directs and stars in the show as twenty-something Hannah, stumbling through her life in New York. This, however, is so not Friends. Yes, it’s funny but with a humour that’s subtle and bittersweet. There’s nothing cute or staged about Girls. It’s gritty and realistic, subtle and serious.

Hannah is an extraordinary creation: selfish and neurotic, sensitive and kind, plain yet alluring, clever and dumb. Dunham as Hannah unfolds herself so openly and guilelessly, you can hardly believe she had the guts to do it. She strips frequently, laying bare her ‘imperfect’, so-not-Hollywood body with as little inhibition as she does her soul.

Okay, I get it. Hannah is fictional. She’s not Dunham. But you can’t create a character that convincing, that complex, that completely fucked-up unless you contain all those things yourself. Or at least have a more than nodding acquaintance with them. Whatever. Autobiography or fiction, Girls is something to savour, preferably alone, so you can focus on it undisturbed.

Seriously, it’s that good.

 

Ask me all the questions

Really excited to be taking part in the first BritCrime online writing festival, in a panel next Sunday evening with the lovely Helen Giltrow and Marnie Riches. Come on over here and chat all things UNTOUCHABLE, or ask me about my next book, EXPOSURE, out next year.

What’s in a name

Just a quick heads up on the title front – next year’s book, my second, will be called:

Look at those pins!

 

 

 

 

If you’ve enjoyed UNTOUCHABLE – or you’re simply curious – feast your eyes on this orgy of images on Pinterest, all inspired by the book. Have fun!

 

What a week that was

Taking it a bit easy today after all the upheaval of last week. Remind me never again to launch a new book on the same day as a general election – makes for something of a hangover the next day.

So what’s new chez Ava? Well, I’m jolly pleased that UNTOUCHABLE has made it into Dead Good Book’s list of May’s Hottest Releases, keeping excellent company with such crime notables as Peter James, Andy McNab, Jeffery Deaver, and Minette Walters. Dead Good also invited me to tell them what I’m reading – find out here.

Meanwhile the lovely Susi Holliday has posted up a fab mini review of UNTOUCHABLE – check it out here.

And just a reminder that UNTOUCHABLE is now available in ebook, at the reduced price of £2.99. You can download a chapter sample at Amazon, or take a peek at it here. If you’re holding out for the paperback release in August, here’s a preview. Proof copies have finally landed!