A New Arrival In Borteen Bay Launch
My new novel, A New Arrival in Borteen Bay is out tomorrow (23 January 2024). This will be my seventh published novel for Choc Lit, now an imprint of Joffe Books and is available as an eBook or paperback. It is still something I have to pinch myself about, as I always dreamed about being a published author.
Having always loved reading books, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have a novel on my bedside table and writing my own just felt a natural thing to do.
My first novel was actually written in my teens and even asked a schoolfriend to read it. I keep meaning to look it out to see if it still has some promise. I do know it had a dishy hero, tall ships and smugglers. I can remember a scene when the heroine is on the deck of the ship and the hero puts his coat around her to keep her warm.
I’ve asked myself lately whether I would have written anyway, or if the fact my parents took us to the library every week and read aloud to us daily made a difference. I like to think that the joy I find in words and stories was instilled in me by the habits of my parents. But does it go back even further than that?
After the passing of my mother in 2022, I have spent the last year typing up her memoirs. She talks about going on her scooter as a child to the library to get books for her gran. Her grandmother insisted that mom always read the last page before she brought a book home – gran only wanted stories that ended happily. Mom also talks about her father playing pieces on the piano and telling stories to go with the music of camels in the desert and ships on foreign seas.
So, is storytelling in my genes? I would love to know. In any case, it certainly sounds as if stories are in my heritage and on the days when writing, editing and promoting my books all seems a bit too much, I think I need to remember that and keep going.
I do hope that readers who invest in a copy of my latest novel A New Arrival in Borteen Bay enjoy the story. This one is a little different with an older couple, Buzz and Wynn and a younger couple, Skye and Adam, all four of whom have a point of view throughout the book.
This is a stand alone title, but if you have read other books from The Secrets of Borteen Bay series, you may recognise Buzz, who runs a crystal shop on Borteen high street and draws labyrinths on the beach, asking people to walk around the path in exchange for a donation to a homeless charity. He is one of those minor characters from another book that needed to have his own story. I do so hope that you enjoy it.
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