Spotlight on Guest Author Isabella Connor

First a heartfelt thank you to all of you who have downloaded my debut novel The Girl on the Beach since its release on 24 January 2017. I have been overjoyed by the response and support. The book is featured as book of the week on @TheAuthorHour on Twitter this week, which was a lovely surprise.

This week I am pleased to welcome fellow Choc Lit author Isabella Connor to my blog. Well that’s not strictly true, as ‘Isabella Connor‘ is the joint pen name of Englishwoman Liv Thomas, who works for the National Health Service in Southampton, and of Scottish-born Valerie Olteanu, an adult educator in the Canadian province of British Columbia. I spoke to Liv for this blog.

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Liv Thomas

I live on the South Coast, and though pretty widely travelled, I’ve never lived outside Hampshire. If I had a choice, I would live either in Ireland, or in the Alps. I work for the NHS, at the first hospital that was featured in Channel 4’s ‘One Born Every Minute’. I live with the OH and our West Highland Terrier, Sophie. The kids have flown the nest but all live locally. I love reading and writing (not ‘rithmetic though), also pub quizzes, and I have a girlie crush on Chris Evans (not that one!) whose character in the movie Push was the visual for Finn in An Irish Promise.

I am @Livbet on Twitter – https://twitter.com/Livbet – and will generally follow back, unless it’s someone whose tweets comprise of nothing more than links. I give those a miss because although it’s a useful promotional tool, I do think of Twitter more as a social thing.

I do have a blog, which is sadly neglected, but I am full of good intentions and plan to resurrect it in 2017 – there is quite a lot on it though, if anyone wants to give it a try.