TODAY I’M CHATTING WITH FELLOW CHOC LIT AUTHOR, KIRSTY FERRY, WHOSE LATEST NOVEL, THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, WILL BE PUBLISHED IN EBOOK FORMAT ON 7TH MARCH ALONG WITH THE PAPERBACK OF HER SEC...
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Reviews can make or break a book, or a film, or a TV series – well actually they can break anything. Anything that’s ‘out there’ in the public arena anyway. I remember d...
Here it is . . . the final approved cover for Revenge is Sweet. Complete with a new series title (which I love) thought up by the clever people at Choc Lit UK. IMMORTALS OF LONDON. It's perfec...
Yesterday, 15 June 2016, was the seventh birthday of my lovely publisher, Choc Lit - http://www.choc-lit.com/ The celebrations online included several short stories by some of the Choc Lit ...
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I'm thrilled to be able to report that the sequel to Dance Until Dawn is now in edits. I don't want to give too much away, but there will be a wedding. Not just any old wedding, of course, w...
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I've been invited by Sue Moorcroft to join in the LOVELY BLOG HOP. The blog hop is intended to let you in on a few of the lesser-known things about my life that have helped make me who I am.�...
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Kobo's Mother's Day promotion has been amazing this weekend. Dance Until Dawn reached the dizzying heights of number three in the Paranormal Romance charts, and I couldn't be more thrilled. ...
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The Dracula Society's Annual Dinner is always arranged as close to the great man's actual birthday as is possible. This year it fell on the 8 November which would have been Stoker's 167th birt...
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So how was your Hallowe'en? Did you dress up? Go to a party? Take the kids Trick or Treating? It is taking a while for us here in the UK to catch up with the fabulous Hallowe'en cel...
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Here is the new re-vamped (ha ha) book trailer for Dance Until Dawn. This has been done with (a lot) of help from my friends! They know who they are – thank you so much. I love it and I hop...
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I’ve been tagged by Alison May HTTP://ALISON-MAY.CO.UK/2014/05/31/IN-WHICH-WE-MEET-MY-MAIN-CHARACTER/ to carry on a blog about our main characters. Thanks Alison! I felt torn bet...
I've taken up the baton from lovely Henriette Gyland, a fellow Choc Liteer author. Thank you, Henri, for inviting me to play on the blog tour. If you'd like to catch up with Henri, you can fi...
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There are no less than fourteen Choc Lit authors featured in the Apple iTunes Store this month - including ME! Brilliant news.
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Dance Until Dawn is up on the Elder Park Book Review blog today. They are having their own Vampire Week. Do go along and say who your favourite vampires are. http://elderparkbookreviews.wordp...
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Huge thanks to my lovely publishers, Choc Lit, for the box of Dance Until Dawn which arrived this morning. Opening the box was one of the best experiences ever!
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Today's the day! Two eBooks released from Choc Lit UK – and one of them is mine! How exciting is that? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dance-until-Dawn-Choc-Lit-ebook/dp/B00IRH0TC2/ref=sr_1_5...
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Having worked in the publishing industry for . . . a long time, I know the importance of The Bookseller magazine. I've designed many an ad and a front cover for them, I've applied for jobs throu...
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Bram Stoker knew a perfect Gothic setting when he saw one. No wonder he shipwrecked the Demeter on Whitby's rugged coastline. Where else would Lucy Westenra sleepwalk in the dead of nig...
I realised to my shame that I haven't posted anything here since February, which as we're hurtling towards September, is pretty tardy to say the least! A month with an 'r' in it, inevitably mean...
Beginnings 14 February 2003, Highgate, London. Valentine’s Day. The Victorians loved this day, they celebrated with handwritten poetry and gifts of flowers. I wonder...
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I'VE BEEN INVITED BY A FELLOW WRITER TO TAKE PART IN A BLOG HOP – IT SOUNDS EXCITING! ALL I HAVE TO DO IS ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY NEXT BOOK AND THEN LINK TO SOME OTHER TALENTED AUTHORS ...
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Saturday 17th November saw me up at the crack of dawn, trundling a caseful of Fledglings to the Festival of Romance in Bedford. Having been warned about the (lack of) parking, I'd decided to ...
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The second Festival of Romance takes place in Bedford this year, kicking off with the Awards Ball on Friday evening, 16th November. Tickets are £45 and available from the website. http://f...
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I’m always interested in reading about the journeys of other writers. The writing community is vast, yet strangely close-knit. There’s a lot of support around for new writers, re-in...
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Our friends from Boston, Tori and Cacky Mellor, came to visit last October. Tori read the whole of Fledgling in two and a half days – in between visiting the Tower of London, Covent Garden a...
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