To celebrate the launch of the very wonderful ‘The Foster Husband’ by Pippa Wright, I’ve got 3 COPIES to give away and all details can be found after my (gushing) thoughts on the novel: Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and never […]
To celebrate the launch of Jacqui Rose’s second novel ‘TRAPPED’, I’ve a copy to give away at the end of this post. Jacqui Rose shot up through the Amazon ranks last year, being a best-seller with tens of thousands of book sales. Readers raved about her. Like many others, I devoured her debut ‘Taken’ and […]
This is where I admit that I’d never read anything by William Wharton until last weekend. And, possibly, that this was a strange choice to start my love affair. And, if I’m honest, I didn’t mean to read ‘Shrapnel’, I simply went to read a paragraph and three hours later… A previously unpublished wartime memoir […]
London musician and author Jim Bob is best known for being a singer with Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, with whom he released fourteen top forty singles and seven albums, four of which appeared in the top ten of the UK album charts and one that reached number one. And I LOVED him back then […]
So, I’m thinking the title to this post may have given away any element of surprise. BUT I’m thrilled that I’ve a (fabulously) simple competition for you, from the super kind folk at Currys. I’ve got THIS compact digital camera to give away, a Samsung compact digital camera (PL121), to one of you lovelies and […]
Today I am VERY delighted to welcome the fabulous writer, illustrator of ‘Freaks!’ and my friend, Darren Craske to my blog. He’s taken his first steps into the self-publishing world and I’m hoping you’ll offer him a hello and a ‘yay!’. (And I’ve 5 COPIES of ‘The Lantern Menace’ on epub or mobi files to […]
Today’s guest post is all about authonomyTM, a writing community site for writers, readers and publishers, conceived and developed by book editors at HarperCollins. The idea stems from a desire to find the brightest, freshest new literature around and (for an unpublished writer) authonomy is ‘the place to show your writing on the web’. And, […]
Jen Campbell has written the VERY fabulous ‘Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops’ and, today, to celebrate the launch, I’ve a copy to give away at the end of this post. But, for now, Jen tells us how the book (which I HIGHLY recommend) came about: Some days bookselling is the best job in the […]
Today we have a guest post from the lovely Cath Bore about WHEN and WHERE I get to be Simon Cowell. Over to you Cath… Writing on the Wall (WoW) is a literary festival in Liverpool which takes place each May. I’ve helped out at WoW ever since I, with a terrible attempt at chick […]
(To celebrate the launch of ‘The Night Before Christmas‘, I’ve a SIGNED (and wrapped in Christmas paper) copy to give away at the end of this post) All Lydia’s ever wanted is a perfect Christmas… So when her oldest friends invite her to spend the holidays with them, it seems like a dream come true. […]