Rochelle Carlton's Blog, page 11
January 11, 2015
ONLY FOUR HOURS TO ENTER!
Only four hours left to enter and have a chance of winning a copy of The Quilt, Unravelled! To find out more or enter click on the link below.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/119395-the-quilt
I will reduce the price of The Quilt, Unravelled on kindle to just 0.99c! This offer will start on the 13th (Pacific) and run for 5 days EST. Look out for the special on the link below. I will post confirmation when the offer is live.
Only a few more hours!
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From the pioneering life of the Clarke family, to the vineyards of Waiheke Island, this story will take you on a road of hope, love and loss.
From the 13th January you can download on kindle for 0.99. Five days only.
http://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Unravelle...
January 10, 2015
LAST CHANCE TO ENTER!
Want to curl up and wrap yourself in the pages of The Quilt, Unravelled. Last chance to enter and be in to win one of two copies.
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Don’t forget this story will be offered at 0.99 on kindle (from the 13th of January until the 18th.)
LAST DAY TO ENTER!
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Don't forget this story will be offered at 0.99 on kindle (from the 13th of January until the 18th.)
Enjoy the journey of the Clarke family. Experience their life and their hardship. The dilemma of Joanne Kyle as she is torn between career and love. The story of Twin Pines Station and the despair of wild Sandy as she fights every person's worst fear.
January 9, 2015
ONLY TWO MORE DAYS!
Only two more days left to enter and have a chance of winning a copy of The Quilt, Unravelled.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/119395-the-quilt
If you have put it on your to read list, or would like to enjoy the journey of the Clarke family I will be running a special. It will start on the 13th and go for five days. A lot of book for just 0.99c!
Here is what Jackie Parry (Author of “Of Foreign Build, available on Amazon said.)
This is a family saga, deeply immersed with friendship, romance, life, love, tragedy, and so much more. It is captivating right from the start, and it doesn’t let you go.
The protagonists’ lives reflect real life; they effortlessly show how different corners are turned and the decisions that are made can lead us to unexpected places.
With dark secrets, heartbreak, calamities, laughter and tears, this book will carry you through each emotion as if you are there. The female bonding of extraordinary characters will have you smiling at the pages and wanting more. You’ll suffer with them too.
All this, coupled with simmering love and immeasurable bravery, means that you won’t be able to put this book down. It is a beautifully woven story with magnificent descriptions that provide a vivid journey. The meaningful characters, intertwined with such reality, stitched together with a few surprises along the way, made me look forward to picking this book up each night.
The ending had me in tears; tears of every emotion; it is written with such powerful prose – the nearer I got to the end, the further away I wanted it to be. I’ll be reading more from Rochelle Carlton.
Greetings from rural New Zealand. The home of The Quilt, Unravelled.
Have a great weekend wherever you are. RC
http://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Unravelled-Rochelle-Carlton-ebook/dp/B00MCV1BO4
The Quilt, Unravelled
Two more days to enter!
And if you are not one of the winners? Download on Kindle for the low price of 0.99. Five days only from the 13th of January.
January 8, 2015
Price Drop!
January 7, 2015
“POO TO PUBLISHED”
The engineer and I sat in a small bay surrounded by a comfortable silence. Apart from the seabirds, and the gentle sound of water on the boat’s hull, we were alone with our thoughts. The harsh New Zealand sun beat down on our backs, and kayaks sat like fat slugs on the white sand of a crescent shaped bay. I watched the nylon sitting neglected on the mirrored surface of the water, and I wondered how long a lamb chop would take to defrost. I looked at the vines silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky, and the bush clad hills that formed folds like a fat ladies belly before they kissed the granite coloured cliffs.
Beautiful Waiheke Island, New Zealand. Home of The Quilt, Unravelled
“I think I will write a book.”
“Uh ha” sighed the engineer. That sound by definition means, “oh no here we go again!”
“About what?” He sighed and slumped, already resigned to the news.
“A romance”. The engineer struggled to stifle a groan. I tried to regain his interest.
“Waiheke Island and the New Zealand high country. Relationships and their dynamics. A real story, perhaps including my Joanne.”
A frown played across his face. “Uh ha.” He shook his head and his glazed focus returned to the unmoving nylon of his fishing line.
Waiheke Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. The Quilt, Unravelled.
So begun two years of stolen moments on the keyboard, travelling the path of Twin Pines Station, Marinella Vineyard and the Clarke Family. I explored through my characters the heartbreak of loss, and the healing power of love, the dynamics of family and the constraints imposed by our upbringing.
Don’t get me wrong, my motivation for writing a novel cannot be completely attributed to a sunny day, when the fishing was hard, and the lamb chops were frozen. It was also born through a need to immerse myself in a new project.
Waiheke Island Vineyards and countryside. Location of Marinella Vineyard, The Quilt, Unravelled.
Years of driving an archaic truck and watching my daughter compete in various countries, on various horses, of picking up endless piles of poo, from endless species of animals had left me a busy, but just functioning zombie. It was time to think, to be selfish, to do what no mother can do until their children reach that special age, the age when parents are seen as little more than a hindrance. I did something for myself. I began the story of The Quilt, Unravelled and with it came a new life. One of cold meals, paddocks piled high with smelly heaps of poo and a mind that wandered off with a complicated family that had a story to tell.
The Quilt, Unravelled
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Download e-book for the very special price of just 0.99 from the 13th – 18th January, 2015.
January 5, 2015
January 1, 2015
ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!
If you are in the US or UK you have a chance of winning one of two paperback copies of The Quilt, Unravelled.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/119395-the-quilt
The Quilt, Unravelled. Enjoy a little bit of New Zealand this New Year. Photo by D. Clegg. http://www.amazon.com/Quilt-Unravelled-Rochelle-Carlton-ebook/dp/B00MCV1BO4
Currently also available on Kindle at a reduced price. Happy reading and best wishes for the New Year.
