What are your tenuous connections? Win a signed first-edition copy of ROOK in ‘Top Tenuous’ Competition

 I met Jackie Buxton several years ago on an Arvon course  at Lumb Bank, Heptonstall in West Yorkshire, when I was still struggling to write my first novel, The Devil’s Music.

Here we are leaving the launch party for ROOK this summer, held at Bloomsbury’s home in Bedford Square, London. This picture tells you a great deal about Jackie’s inspirational zest for life: she’s travelled all the way down from Harrogate on crutches, with a smashed knee cap, so as not to miss the celebratiions.

You’ll spot Jackie’s name in the acknowledgements for ROOK . She should really have been mentioned twice, because she not only worked on early drafts of a large chunk of the opening section of the novel with me, but she also provided all the detailed I needed on running. (Nora, my main character runs, and I do NOT).

Jackie has recently interviewed me for CHASE magazine, http://preview.tinyurl.com/9h53n48 (pgs 48-52) and she is also running a ‘Top Tenuous Competition’ for you to win a signed first edition copy of ROOK.

SO … all you have to do, whoever you are, however little or well you know me – is to pop over to her blog, Agenthood and Submissionville and tell her your most tenuous connections to me, Sussex, rooks, Bosham or event King Cnut. We are both looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

DEADLINE:  Answers by midnight October 5th, please.  HERE 

 

More photos from ROOK‘s London Launch, August 2012, 50, Bedford Square