tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33339901068659429912024-03-19T08:47:40.451+00:00CAROLE'S BOOK CORNERUK Book Blogger...Reviews..Giveaways..Tours..News..Guest PostsCarole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.comBlogger832125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-60168870417793513642021-08-24T05:00:00.001+01:002021-08-24T05:00:00.283+01:00The Perfect Life by Nuala Ellwood - Short Book Review - Book Tour<p><span style="color: red; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Today, I'm delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for Nuala Ellwood's new psychological thriller The Perfect Life</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnkd00iCtZqJvo8NropiXHnzSm7X2x_awqQ__5NB2OcWtBzPwNLxMbS3DPW5wUEanExL-bVDsQ3Eey_Rw7e6EcvLLrud1J6oqvk0TPHmyHPDXfyUD2HLKUMuiEP5wNcR-L7914omnADt7/s2048/20210822_140924.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1592" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnkd00iCtZqJvo8NropiXHnzSm7X2x_awqQ__5NB2OcWtBzPwNLxMbS3DPW5wUEanExL-bVDsQ3Eey_Rw7e6EcvLLrud1J6oqvk0TPHmyHPDXfyUD2HLKUMuiEP5wNcR-L7914omnADt7/w498-h640/20210822_140924.jpg" width="498" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO BE SOMEONE ELSE?<u></u><u></u></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>That's how it started: looking round houses she couldn't possibly afford. Harmless fun really. Until it wasn't.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>Because a man who lived in one of those houses is dead.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>And everyone thinks Vanessa killed him...</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Well, this book really got me guessing as to which way it was going to go as Vanessa's life was gradually revealed in a series of Then and Now chapters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">We first meet Vanessa when she is taken in for questioning to the local police station and from then on the story veered one way and then another - I thought it was very skilfully written.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">This psychological thriller is fast-paced, unexpected in places and a very, very good read.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsdMTlWYaEUeZ-j2s1qY-toY3W-kCQ4iAvypxRkvM5NBtbcFxJT5XpaWijc-mOBlmR1nEDu9lTnycYZfpmDxsXluepoQONnsHJFyHAbw6oe2Xgeis-SUWDow4j-z0TNVII063sWXnZv3K/s1024/Blog+tour+2+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsdMTlWYaEUeZ-j2s1qY-toY3W-kCQ4iAvypxRkvM5NBtbcFxJT5XpaWijc-mOBlmR1nEDu9lTnycYZfpmDxsXluepoQONnsHJFyHAbw6oe2Xgeis-SUWDow4j-z0TNVII063sWXnZv3K/w640-h320/Blog+tour+2+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-21691674213781702082021-07-09T05:00:00.001+01:002021-07-09T05:00:00.213+01:00The Secret Notebook by Julia Wild - Blog Tour and Guest Post<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am so pleased to be involved in the Blog Tour for <b>The Secret Notebook</b> today and author Julia Wild has written a lovely Guest Post to accompany her novel</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTobP4lkwigwSoUrbc8G87E8XwW6aOxTWQLTmumMb3fXtltnmR0LF7SKIjvWogC87V7oeOqbt0B4G0VIk-AymYbCWZdfAN-vL4ojjP-i6HE9JYsXqi-rMUIlo-oxG5Z9g-Gx_Le8KQ1bzs/s2048/The+Secret+Notebook+Cover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1341" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTobP4lkwigwSoUrbc8G87E8XwW6aOxTWQLTmumMb3fXtltnmR0LF7SKIjvWogC87V7oeOqbt0B4G0VIk-AymYbCWZdfAN-vL4ojjP-i6HE9JYsXqi-rMUIlo-oxG5Z9g-Gx_Le8KQ1bzs/w420-h640/The+Secret+Notebook+Cover.JPG" width="420" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When Izzie Dean’s beloved nan, Molly Blackshaw, passes away, Izzie returns to the Blackpool bungalow where she grew up, to say goodbye once and for all. When Izzie’s homecoming reunites her with her first love, Justin Swift, every emotion that Izzie has repressed since the day he broke her heart comes rushing to the surface. But then an unexpected discovery changes everything.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Between the pages of the battered secret diary Molly kept during WWII, Izzie discovers a story of love, heartbreak, and the incomparable hardship of life in a world at war. Reading her grandmother’s words soon puts her own story into perspective, and suddenly Izzie realises that the only thing holding her back from happiness, might be herself. Now she just has to convince Justin that they deserve a second chance at forever…</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08RS6JBRJ/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08RS6JBRJ/</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-qLeYsspeQJrxxYZf9cbP4Y4xIVEDQqmpdI_m2rtRhFRjIvmH1hLfz-totfGQEZvAl62esw1FG7oXCtaBesDY4JVY9zD8QozSSon2uYJUXhsXVh5oGqDpunZzA18szUd9Bc3f0poaTOp/s700/The+Secret+Notebook.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI-qLeYsspeQJrxxYZf9cbP4Y4xIVEDQqmpdI_m2rtRhFRjIvmH1hLfz-totfGQEZvAl62esw1FG7oXCtaBesDY4JVY9zD8QozSSon2uYJUXhsXVh5oGqDpunZzA18szUd9Bc3f0poaTOp/w400-h158/The+Secret+Notebook.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>GUEST POST</u></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-ed5731d6-7fff-eb73-994e-bf2ffe60b8db" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello there, Carole and your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Book Corner </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">readers, thank you for having me as a guest here today!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I thought I’d write a bit about the settings for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Secret Notebook</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an associated story and a couple of the fun facts I found out whilst researching – even the facts I thought I knew for sure – things I could have got very wrong!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Secret Notebook</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a work of fiction, however, the World War Two guest house where the trainee RAF hero and others are billeted is the same one that my own Mum and Dad ran for several years in Blackpool during the 1970’s, and where I had an attic bedroom as a teenager. I, like the war time heroine, was married from there, which is a lovely connection to have to the story. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">One hot Summer Day, Mum and Dad were working in the huge kitchen, the side of which is against a small service road. A work van was parked at the other side of the outer kitchen wall and there was a gas bottle on board the van – and it blew up! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Crikey, a fire engine turned up and all the bedrooms with their open windows up that side of the building were blackened with smoke. How fabulous is it that all the amazing owners of the neighbouring guest houses in the street turned up with mops and buckets once the fire was out and helped to clean up the occupied rooms. My Dad had been stood quite close to the outside window and the source of the explosion and afterwards reported that his slippers stayed on the floor where they had been on his feet – and he landed several feet away – without them! What a shock that must have been for him.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">As a writer, you often do a lot more research than you actually use – to help make certain you don’t drop any enormous clangers and along the way, some of the facts you uncover are plain funny. The following is one of the more amusing ones.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the facts is that all the street signs were removed so that if the Germans landed to invade by way of the beach in Blackpool, then they wouldn’t know where they were. That fact made me chuckle – the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blackpool Tower</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, all 158 metres of it – might well have given the German landing forces a bit of a clue! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Another fact I found interesting was that when photographs appeared in the newspaper, Blackpool Tower was blanked out if it was visible – apparently this happened to landmarks all over the country to avoid areas being identified.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The house where I began my present-day story-line, was in West Hampstead and was a massive house that I’d had a bed sit in many moons ago; a close friend and I took a walk down the same road and took a good long look at the property and the area on a visit there when the book was almost finished. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">A friendly local fellow was out walking his dog and very helpfully pointed out all the homes belonging to famous actors and actresses in the adjacent road. The area had definitely come up in the world – it was lovely when I’d lived there in the tree lined street, and it was exceptional when I revisited!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">One of the last facts that I checked was about the present-day Blackpool trams. As a teenager, I’d lie in bed at night and hear them returning to the tram sheds, a lovely if loud and distinctive clanking noise both at night and in the mornings when they awoke for business again! For some reason, I had always found these noises comforting. My present-day heroine had spoken of this – well, I had to take that out! The trams and the tracks were updated in 2012 and are now very quiet!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Secret Notebook</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was my first Dual Timeline story and the first time I’d written anything in World War Two, all my past published books are contemporary romantic intrigue stories. So, it was a very different and enjoyable learning experience.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Thank you again, Carole for having me on your blog, I’ve enjoyed sharing my experiences with you and your readers. Cheerio for now, Julia Wild x</span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Meet the Author</u></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIeJjFFOhD_39D4lDPEUbW3bcc6mLGwXDASole731TkYNgIIpHLnOWX7ZwJFyCQ6Ef5A0izoGe-D-WAFiCzfTqIw_Ld6cBSDNFAeZHo5FHlFQa-UhuLmA3Eus5zJoJaRazPBfPLhg4Oc6/s151/The+Secret+Author.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="151" data-original-width="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIeJjFFOhD_39D4lDPEUbW3bcc6mLGwXDASole731TkYNgIIpHLnOWX7ZwJFyCQ6Ef5A0izoGe-D-WAFiCzfTqIw_Ld6cBSDNFAeZHo5FHlFQa-UhuLmA3Eus5zJoJaRazPBfPLhg4Oc6/s0/The+Secret+Author.png" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1fd93e39-7fff-9e9f-8caa-518a9e15cc56"><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Lancashire born, I moved to Bedfordshire in the late seventies, married and started a family. I’m a past Hon Sec of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, have been a member since 1993 when I joined their New Writers’ Scheme as a probationer. That came about after winning a week’s historical writing course on the strength of the first chapter of my third Poldark-era romance. The tutor on the last day loved the story and handed me details of the Romantic Novelists’ Association – she said I absolutely must join as they would be able to help me towards publication. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Some four years later my first published book, Dark Canvas, won the RNA’s New Writer’s Award in 1997, the sixth, Illusions, won the RNA’s Romance Prize in 2003.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">After working in the local library service for 18 years, during library cut-backs I took the leap to become self-employed as a writer and worked on releasing my backlist as eBooks for Kindle. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Most recently, I’ve had the pleasure of working with amazing Charlotte Ledger when she pulled me from the writing wilderness and have now signed a three-book deal with One More Chapter.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Media Links – </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; 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font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Please check out the other Bloggers who are also taking part in the Tour</u></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOM9yXWkmrM6w7IZRHgoGlR2YL4RxynOMQrxk5W30E87b4F8Cjt0pa1szAV_3GTIU5jYG36YaqfbjLmndoAR-R4ifcPG4F3CtPHjOBpCNn70wjQcA8ojQdTgH8jSDElm6sq0avChZAhyphenhypheny6/s2048/The+Secret+Notebook+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOM9yXWkmrM6w7IZRHgoGlR2YL4RxynOMQrxk5W30E87b4F8Cjt0pa1szAV_3GTIU5jYG36YaqfbjLmndoAR-R4ifcPG4F3CtPHjOBpCNn70wjQcA8ojQdTgH8jSDElm6sq0avChZAhyphenhypheny6/w640-h334/The+Secret+Notebook+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: black; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></span><div style="color: black; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: none;"><br /></div></span></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-72649095724452604892021-06-28T05:00:00.001+01:002021-06-28T05:00:00.227+01:00Between You and Me by Carol Mason - Blog Tour<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am delighted to be involved in the Blog Tour for <b>Between You and Me</b> by Carol Mason</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nMAqU2FLzjuNRQ66UitM0ho5H9FmffBIjFaiuI_aFxpzy4uGd2Rt2biuYPd26PaJDuDMiwRmuFQ3lIKYpYWF-KfWhMHcm6qhADkJn4SO8tgz6MsiNO_Lo7JjQExgQ82GcJxv-1jdw8UE/s2048/MASON_BETWEENYOUANDME_High+Rezjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1334" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nMAqU2FLzjuNRQ66UitM0ho5H9FmffBIjFaiuI_aFxpzy4uGd2Rt2biuYPd26PaJDuDMiwRmuFQ3lIKYpYWF-KfWhMHcm6qhADkJn4SO8tgz6MsiNO_Lo7JjQExgQ82GcJxv-1jdw8UE/w416-h640/MASON_BETWEENYOUANDME_High+Rezjpg.jpg" width="416" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Is her new husband really who she thinks he is?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When young doctor Lauren Matheson meets Joe, an older divorced businessman, at a glittering poolside in California, it’s a chance encounter that seems life-changing for them both. Back home in London, their feelings only strengthen. But Lauren soon discovers that building a happy future with Joe is going to be an uphill struggle…</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>She’s determined to be a good stepmother to his children, four-year-old Toby and complicated teen Grace. But under the watchful eye of Meredith, Joe’s intimidating ex-wife, Lauren can’t seem to do a thing right. Why won’t Joe ever take her side against Grace? And what really happened between him and Meredith?</i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i><span id="docs-internal-guid-4810ad37-7fff-9a18-680b-93a60798244f"></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As her husband retreats into a cold, secretive version of the dashing man she met in California, Lauren starts to wonder if she’s made a costly mistake. Was Joe </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ever</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the man she thought she married?</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6c7eeba6-7fff-0349-5337-c8e10628f839"></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2Pu9BCM" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://amzn.to/2Pu9BCM</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT60jV_UOnoQ_7vE0vQNavbwN778fL4Ali56luSik41bEB-yY88x85FJlrx9UloPo2wqi5iOALNiX2GhmAl99PZ2E8Q_ndr89K_S2-gKfePVegYDDuz5rCU11yeySWhzQyC9Scmt-2-mrB/s700/Between+You+and+Me.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT60jV_UOnoQ_7vE0vQNavbwN778fL4Ali56luSik41bEB-yY88x85FJlrx9UloPo2wqi5iOALNiX2GhmAl99PZ2E8Q_ndr89K_S2-gKfePVegYDDuz5rCU11yeySWhzQyC9Scmt-2-mrB/w400-h158/Between+You+and+Me.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Meet the Author</b></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carol Mason is the Amazon Charts and Kindle #1 bestselling author After You Left (more than 300,000 copies sold), The Secrets of Married Women, The Last Time We Met, The Shadow Between Us, Send Me A Lover and Little White Secrets which hit the Bookstat digital bestsellers list top 3 in the week of its launch. She was born in the North East of England where most of her novels are set. She now lives in Canada with her Canadian husband, a rescue dog from Kuwait and a three-legged cat. When not writing, Carol loves to read, cook and binge watch Netflix. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_Out5SlH3LuO-gNSQZwBK7oSD0PKhVgHzFBlmPcdGUK8ZjLUe61o-uQImJKJg7YoD72EDViqb4cF_Osk07Gu2fRfu3nu7x2_kQqkJStfG4P2EIJU7D3H2n0091oM0wmwuu-jkzyHAaT9/s1771/IMG-8336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="1255" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_Out5SlH3LuO-gNSQZwBK7oSD0PKhVgHzFBlmPcdGUK8ZjLUe61o-uQImJKJg7YoD72EDViqb4cF_Osk07Gu2fRfu3nu7x2_kQqkJStfG4P2EIJU7D3H2n0091oM0wmwuu-jkzyHAaT9/s320/IMG-8336.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-fd86f24e-7fff-6143-da9a-3f39846694bb" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CarolMasonAuthor" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/CarolMasonAuthor</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CarolMasonBooks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">https://twitter.com/CarolMasonBooks</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/carolmasonauthor/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.instagram.com/carolmasonauthor/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b>Please check out the other Book Bloggers on the Tour</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhDwr1AEUmAudGOxehih6IKhwWJ30dP2_kt-cbI5o6iXxCLh-S3Enf7ekGH4m3l-k5Pe-g_dvI77-JSxMkVuCpDR54uQtmNU86u5dsM40NHMV6kthvhxPewCU9L87tq3RGrvpPKGck4ig/s2048/Between+You+and+Me+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="2048" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRhDwr1AEUmAudGOxehih6IKhwWJ30dP2_kt-cbI5o6iXxCLh-S3Enf7ekGH4m3l-k5Pe-g_dvI77-JSxMkVuCpDR54uQtmNU86u5dsM40NHMV6kthvhxPewCU9L87tq3RGrvpPKGck4ig/w400-h223/Between+You+and+Me+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-58336842268334726072021-06-26T05:00:00.001+01:002021-06-26T05:00:00.218+01:00Finding Jo by Frances Ive - Guest Post / Blog Tour<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">I'm delighted that author Frances Ive has written a special Guest Post for me today as part of the Blog Tour for her new novel <b>Finding Jo</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQUx908LcdHfHyFbDiX2ogI7qBaXJnrPMWl4xMQoS2Fah9kLfnxrYl2idkhk030sgGA3n-QpcObcKJQXLLnEefikM8QbP4rzZZ-jN_uHAvMO3NkG6Upe1bEmX9KOq1lu1Czd8hmxN3LV3/s1426/Finding+Jo+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="967" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQUx908LcdHfHyFbDiX2ogI7qBaXJnrPMWl4xMQoS2Fah9kLfnxrYl2idkhk030sgGA3n-QpcObcKJQXLLnEefikM8QbP4rzZZ-jN_uHAvMO3NkG6Upe1bEmX9KOq1lu1Czd8hmxN3LV3/w434-h640/Finding+Jo+Front+Cover.jpg" width="434" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>At breaking point Jo deserts her dysfunctional family and possessive boyfriend, making an uncharacteristic escape to the Himalayas in a bid for freedom and self-knowledge. The peace she finds there helps her to unravel her turmoil, but unexpected challenges test her new-found equilibrium to the limit. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i>Finding Jo focuses on relationships between families, lovers and friends, and the resentment and long-held grievances that threaten to destroy them. Jo’s quest for a deeper purpose in life acts as a catalyst to her family, indicating that willingness to change and grow enables people to find happiness. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Purchase Links </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08VWL1JNR" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08VWL1JNR</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3f861f9c-7fff-1404-44c4-72f270724bcb"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VWL1JNR" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VWL1JNR</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBxaaqnGo6JzCnwSzMMHw-ZB_s2fBchIOU1dWnNGDYxDSqOlp9AgTeDBXxBkxgkpIIg4-kDMQxVErd9PNh6LhcYI_orD8czPlqeJ4xtzl8UDS-3AXlFygK6wgAtTwaw7tHrpPOfH_KgLX/s700/Finding+Jo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBxaaqnGo6JzCnwSzMMHw-ZB_s2fBchIOU1dWnNGDYxDSqOlp9AgTeDBXxBkxgkpIIg4-kDMQxVErd9PNh6LhcYI_orD8czPlqeJ4xtzl8UDS-3AXlFygK6wgAtTwaw7tHrpPOfH_KgLX/w400-h158/Finding+Jo.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">What is a dysfunctional family?</span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-c17ef850-7fff-591b-15a3-a44939f75e37" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘All over the country people would be having dinners with their families. Loads of them would be as dysfunctional as hers, but some of them might genuinely enjoy each other, instead of pretending and acting out a farce.’ These were Jo’s thoughts on Christmas Day, when she made up her mind to get away from it all in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding Jo.</span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">We all know people who come from dysfunctional families, and most of us have stories about our own upbringing. In the worst cases children are neglected due to poor parenting, because the parent(s) have serious problems of their own. But in families like Jo’s no-one was physically neglected, and they were fed, clothed and sent to school. Yet she and her siblings had an unconscious sense that something was wrong. Their mother was very unhappy and depressed so in turn her kids’ needs were not always met. This was never acknowledged in the family nor understood. </span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">As adults Jo and her siblings each had completely different types of problems. Relationships between them were competitive and tainted by jealousy and disdain. That Christmas Day brought it all to a head for Jo and made her decide to do something about it by escaping without telling them. She left in a clandestine way and went to a retreat in the Himalayas in a bid to find peace of mind.</span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">I have always been shocked at how family members can treat each other so badly for so long, when life is too short to spend it all fighting, or worse still, not even speaking. Some people are never reconciled to their family, causing all parties tremendous hurt while others do not come together until the end of their lives – what a waste of time. Brothers, sisters, parents, children, often have unacknowledged or misunderstood reasons for not speaking to each other or liking each other. Family feuds are not that unusual in real life and aren’t just the stuff of fiction. </span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Families may go through bad phases and ev</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ery family has its own foibles, but when all the children of a family grow up feeling that they were emotionally neglected, they often carry that for the rest of their lives, unless there is change. The undercurrents in Jo’s family had an effect on her, and her brother and sister. </span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Children brought up in a family that doesn’t work for them may feel they couldn’t ever be their true selves, or that they played a role. There may have been favouritism towards one or other of the siblings, sometimes boys favoured over girls or vice-versa. Competitiveness rules as each child vies for the attention of one or both parents. The mistrust between parents is likely to be passed down to them and they can’t get on together as adults</span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Jo runs away from it all, which doesn’t in itself solve any of these problems. Could she not have communicated better rather than taking such radical steps? In her opinion it would not have worked, as they wouldn’t have listened to her. She also had her own problems and didn’t comprehend what was wrong with her parents and family. Some might say what she did was cowardly or dramatic.</span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can one person changing their behaviour and acting out of character have a transformative effect on others in the family?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jo leaving without telling them of her plans changed the family dynamics and forced some family members into opening up. Although this in turn prompted more disharmony, it also brought about change with some of them airing their grievances and doing something different. Secrets and lies began to unravel. </span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">In the calm and peace of Jasanghari, a Himalayan retreat, Jo opens up about why she left home and starts to learn how she can express herself better and speak her truth. She is put into a position of having to cope with a family member whom she is not close to, but their hostility and confrontation leads to them saying things to each other that would never have talked about before. </span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Jo’s departure from home acts as a catalyst to other members of the family, who realise that they need to take action and change behaviour to enjoy a better life. </span></span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Finding Jo, Frances Ive</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Meet the Author</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDDlqz16pYVpFC_z2j6HtyO6QxW94erv6g43tUhyphenhyphenSmlQtmqXlw_OFixPDBib1K5SUmaFHk4jh-xxeVfMOPecMkI-cGKAP2Ncb5FOsGE5Ijsd5Sl4TFaH8S7581nkk4bDHskm3IHB4cwO1/s283/Finding+Frances.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDDlqz16pYVpFC_z2j6HtyO6QxW94erv6g43tUhyphenhyphenSmlQtmqXlw_OFixPDBib1K5SUmaFHk4jh-xxeVfMOPecMkI-cGKAP2Ncb5FOsGE5Ijsd5Sl4TFaH8S7581nkk4bDHskm3IHB4cwO1/s0/Finding+Frances.jpg" /></span></a></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-ca04176d-7fff-7ea0-ba16-fae1d7d0c6fd"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A career as a journalist/PR led to health writing for UK nationals newspapers and consumer magazines. Out of the blue I was inspired to write a novel, Finding Jo, which has taken some years to come to fruition, self-publishing in January 2021. I travelled a lot in my 20s and I have drawn on my three months’ trip to India in Finding Jo.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: @</span><a href="https://twitter.com/healthysouluk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">healthysouluk </span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FindingJoFrancesIve" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/FindingJoFrancesIve</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Please check out the other Bloggers on the Tour</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirjo6NI-mHKK5D2-ZZY6zhnHHFIv_HEWKMXralf4LKKo2sX3jETbAwADvLBJCUXxd8elhO-INH5eewpkKADmcIvYLdyIV-Hi8Jx2dDSFccb44SiKbgvkZ3hRO7g_Kd-84lptSJd_iPSzje/s1999/Finding+Jo+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="1999" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirjo6NI-mHKK5D2-ZZY6zhnHHFIv_HEWKMXralf4LKKo2sX3jETbAwADvLBJCUXxd8elhO-INH5eewpkKADmcIvYLdyIV-Hi8Jx2dDSFccb44SiKbgvkZ3hRO7g_Kd-84lptSJd_iPSzje/w400-h285/Finding+Jo+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-37087305571465699082021-06-24T05:00:00.001+01:002021-06-24T05:00:00.229+01:00Being Netta Wilde by Hazel Ward - Blog Tour & Guest Post<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Today, I am thrilled to be involved in the Blog Tour for <b>Being Netta Wilde</b> and author Hazel Ward has written a special guest post for Carole's Book Corner all about the joys of plundering the past</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZb6-RN9lO2llm8lkMoexJJ2-7l4al3yzEVRXIeOZdJDX0mw_4kTqsraG9W9IAS3r7wXq_siFTCzXnfAQbKie1P3dmHJK391_w9rvxaiOFvqk7wdMJUdvFATkRpvLtd66RkC2jjVzhscI/s2048/Being+Netta+Wilde+v23+final+graphics+-+Kindle+Cover+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZb6-RN9lO2llm8lkMoexJJ2-7l4al3yzEVRXIeOZdJDX0mw_4kTqsraG9W9IAS3r7wXq_siFTCzXnfAQbKie1P3dmHJK391_w9rvxaiOFvqk7wdMJUdvFATkRpvLtd66RkC2jjVzhscI/w400-h640/Being+Netta+Wilde+v23+final+graphics+-+Kindle+Cover+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An uplifting story of love, loss and second chances that celebrates friendship and human connections.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><i><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Netta Wilde was all the things Annette Grey isn’t. Netta Wilde was raw, unchecked and just a little bit rebellious. She loved The Clash and she loved being Netta Wilde.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Annette Grey is an empty, broken woman who hardly knows her own children. Of course, it’s her own fault. She’s a bad mother. An unnatural mother. At least, that’s what her ex-husband tells her.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The one thing she is good at …</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the one thing that stops her from falling …</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is her job.</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When the unthinkable happens, Annette makes a decision that sets her on a journey of self-discovery and reinvention. Along the way, her life is filled with friends, family, dogs, and jam. Lots of jam.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Suddenly anything seems possible. Even being Netta Wilde again.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>But, is she brave enough to take that final step when the secrets she keeps locked inside are never too far away?</i></span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-d8cf12b0-7fff-7396-a38a-3379013ab671" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; 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text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The joys of plundering the past.</span></span></h1><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-af79fc97-7fff-3a47-556c-01e3dec98d6b" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">These days, I find myself increasingly interested in history. Especially the last century. Actually, let me clarify that. I find myself increasingly interested in the people who lived through that time. Of course, I lived through some of that era so, I’m part of the history too. Perhaps that’s why I like to include it in my stories. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being Netta Wilde</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> takes place just a year or two ago but there are a couple times when the main character, Annette Grey, remembers key events that happened in the eighties and the early noughties. Having lived through those eras myself, I thought I’d be able to remember them pretty well but I was surprised by how much fact checking I had to do, just to make sure I’d remembered correctly. Unsurprisingly, I found one or two failures of memory, particularly with the timing of pop music that was around in the eighties. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Researching those years wasn’t too difficult because it didn’t take up a large part of the book. But, what if all of your story takes place in the past? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being Netta Wilde</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the first book in the ‘Netta Wilde’ series. A companion novella, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being Doogie Chambers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is already available, free to members of my Readers’ Club. Doogie was Netta’s first serious boyfriend. The novella tells the story of some of those events from his point of view and takes place entirely in those times. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">So many more chapters to cover and so much more research but how lovely to get back into the mind-set of being young in the 1980s when mobiles, social media and emails weren’t a way of life. When you agreed a time and place to meet someone and that was it. When you left a hastily scribbled note on the door to tell someone where to find you if you didn’t want to miss them. Music features a lot in Doogie’s story and, being a bit of a music lover myself, it was wonderful to be reminded of the thrill of buying actual records rather than downloading them. Happy days.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next book in the series, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding Edith Pinsent, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">goes back much further. It’s about Edie, the elderly spinster who lived in the house before Annette. In book one, Edie has already died so we only get to know her through her diary entries and what other people say about her. This time we meet her from a young age and, as her story unfolds, we discover the real Edie. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Her story begins in the middle of World War Two which is most definitely before my time. So, extensive research has been necessary. I’ve read a number of books about that era, fiction and non-fiction, and have done more than my fair share of online research on all sorts of things from WAAF operations to the fashions, music and films of the time. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Although it starts in the 1940s, it moves on through the proceeding decades. It’s been fascinating following everyday life through those years but I’ve had to pull myself out of it now so that I can get the book written. Its official publication date is 1st March 2022 but I’m hoping to bring it forward to autumn/ winter of this year. That’s if I can stop myself from sliding back into the past on the pretence of double checking just one more little detail. It’s hard to stop when it’s such a joy. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the way, if you want to get hold of a copy of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being Doogie Chambers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> you can do so </span><a href="https://hazelwardauthor.com/readers-club/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding Edith Pinsent</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is now available on </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Finding-Edith-Pinsent-Hazel-Ward-ebook/dp/B095PS1J46/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Finding+Edith+Pinsent&qid=1622560318&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pre-order.</span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Meet the Author</b></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-cLOhWHevldcOVSh-1TTAbjGrBYJ5ju4W0zPOJ0QRmQMdu6CAmpkF2gcZYLhIRyRbwx20zz231BC7k9zcd4_6yXCVeHbKY2jCTExj-hWRJTmlr7m6XBD9f5V_qZpoTB9H34EcQE_wgVy/s379/Being+HW+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-cLOhWHevldcOVSh-1TTAbjGrBYJ5ju4W0zPOJ0QRmQMdu6CAmpkF2gcZYLhIRyRbwx20zz231BC7k9zcd4_6yXCVeHbKY2jCTExj-hWRJTmlr7m6XBD9f5V_qZpoTB9H34EcQE_wgVy/s320/Being+HW+3.jpg" /></span></a></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b95cb24-7fff-725f-bdf2-319a78942374"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hazel Ward was born in a back-to-back house in inner city Birmingham. By the time the council knocked the house flat and packed her family off to the suburbs, she was already something of a feral child who loved adventures. Swapping derelict houses and bomb pecks for green fields and gardens was a bit of a culture shock but she rose to the occasion admirably and grew up loving outdoor spaces and animals. Especially dogs, cats and horses. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strangely, for someone who couldn’t sit still, she also developed a ferocious reading habit and a love of words. She wrote her first novel at fifteen, along with a lot of angsty poems, and was absolutely sure she wanted to be a writer. Sadly, it all came crashing down when her seventeen-year-old self walked out of school after a spot of bother and was either too stubborn or too embarrassed to go back. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s too long ago to remember which. </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What followed was a series of mind-numbingly dull jobs that paid the bills but did little to quell the restlessness inside. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Always a bit of a smart-arse, she eventually managed to talk herself into a successful corporate career that lasted over twenty years until, with the bills paid and the children grown up, she was able to wave it all goodbye and do the thing she’d always wanted to do. While taking a fiction writing course she wrote a short story about a lonely woman who was being made redundant. The story eventually became her debut novel </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being Netta Wilde</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hazel still lives in Birmingham and that’s where she does most of her writing. When she’s not there, she and her partner can be found in their holiday home in Shropshire or gadding about the country in an old motorhome. Not quite feral anymore but still up for adventures. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://hazelwardauthor.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://hazelwardauthor.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hazelwardauthor" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2048" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj87u1repX53r2PaVnowWX-xidT2L72mq9G0Y3KK1ZrkQZcgxTQU0Q2v5yINyKdfibTPvJrKn1l0geICqGlv2wku7RWD5BH21n-2U6a5DXpnC3q24jwZbuZde39jI8NcpjLI_tXdT_CCakp/w640-h386/Being+Netta+Wilde+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div></span></span><p><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-29151858071692844852021-06-05T05:00:00.001+01:002021-06-05T05:00:00.220+01:00The Web They Wove by Catherine Yaffe - Blog Tour<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm delighted to be involved in the blog tour for <b><i>The Web They Wove</i></b> by Catherine Yaffe</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFEIYYBFmzF1pzrMDSzh3sfaYroNXrPO4NsR2sKRnrWUw9Ch0OzYGN3Uuik4maL2K91q-Py9rN04TMTeV8_Dz3LqgvaT6Aa9om3rliSIh1r8Gub6qjSUJ45AGOwbVRQLiPAEeZ-yqi7MF-/s2048/The-Web-They-Wove-Kindle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFEIYYBFmzF1pzrMDSzh3sfaYroNXrPO4NsR2sKRnrWUw9Ch0OzYGN3Uuik4maL2K91q-Py9rN04TMTeV8_Dz3LqgvaT6Aa9om3rliSIh1r8Gub6qjSUJ45AGOwbVRQLiPAEeZ-yqi7MF-/w400-h640/The-Web-They-Wove-Kindle.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i>Not all killers are who they first seem..</i></span></span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9e2b6477-7fff-db12-a6d1-d2e74e191217"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>The mutilated body of a young female is found in a popular recreation ground in Leeds city centre. DI Ziggy Thornes and his team are at once assigned to close the case. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>With little to no forensic evidence left at the scene at first Ziggy struggles to put the pieces together. When a second body turns up in the same place, Ziggy starts to feel the pressure from his bosses and the media as fear spreads through the city. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Realising that victims have been held captive prior to their deaths, Ziggy delves deeper and relentlessly chases down every lead, taking him close to breaking point.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When the investigation leads him dangerously close to home, will time run out before the tangled web of evil he’s uncovered destroys everything he holds dear? </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Purchase Links </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-They-Wove-Tangled-Book-ebook/dp/B0937K58PF/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-They-Wove-Tangled-Book-ebook/dp/B0937K58PF/</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Web-They-Wove-Tangled-Book-ebook/dp/B0937K58PF/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/Web-They-Wove-Tangled-Book-ebook/dp/B0937K58PF/</span></a></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oEAQ_96rJheMWRp9CM230WXwpkOc0UG6LmJnbyskBocPoeq4btwDoDCQ65x8MSOlwqp6OQvIYgjg3FWKIX-aldtjxbNis0rEpyjBhlGFOJp0G1HSdJix_QOR3u96HdRPWHG6O_b5L9EE/s700/The+Web+They+Wove.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oEAQ_96rJheMWRp9CM230WXwpkOc0UG6LmJnbyskBocPoeq4btwDoDCQ65x8MSOlwqp6OQvIYgjg3FWKIX-aldtjxbNis0rEpyjBhlGFOJp0G1HSdJix_QOR3u96HdRPWHG6O_b5L9EE/w400-h158/The+Web+They+Wove.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b>Meet the Author</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-aca5b581-7fff-e8ae-2e33-8f4b82595d4c"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Author Bio – </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Catherine Yaffe is a full-time writer of crime novels, based in the North of England. The Web They Wove is Catherine’s second novel and continues the theme of questioning how well we know those around us. Her debut novel ‘The Lie She Told’ in October ‘20 was received with widespread acclaim, and so far, has gained over 50 five star reviews across Goodreads and Amazon.</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha44QlN5hJQVHkYu_UycDGp4Z4pwKMeQrv8KbtH6EbqbYlkDpiyxP5bl6fNLOuWPolVD2CVoHtnpWrDd605jyRr-xUk8KYbcfp2UZx1owqKZcYBWikz5FzNNChkiyNrO19iNlMy9tHgKVW/s1600/catherine-skeet-yaffe-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha44QlN5hJQVHkYu_UycDGp4Z4pwKMeQrv8KbtH6EbqbYlkDpiyxP5bl6fNLOuWPolVD2CVoHtnpWrDd605jyRr-xUk8KYbcfp2UZx1owqKZcYBWikz5FzNNChkiyNrO19iNlMy9tHgKVW/s320/catherine-skeet-yaffe-006.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><a href="https://twitter.com/CatherineYaffe" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@catherineyaffe</span><span style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CatherineYaffeAuthor" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/CatherineYaffeAuthor</span></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Check out the other Bloggers on the Tour too!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheE8QU_ent40EJ1XNe66FCFNCOd2dpA-lpz6qcDq5v7wN_x4_NS7BLOkJyBJ2k2CKkeaWxm1fMYB_R549K96rS5oBGq0-XuCDgUUG8hiusw1-_PPQUZiavozz2YTKi7NvoOp2Wy23HQIo/s2048/The+Web+They+Wove+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="2048" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheE8QU_ent40EJ1XNe66FCFNCOd2dpA-lpz6qcDq5v7wN_x4_NS7BLOkJyBJ2k2CKkeaWxm1fMYB_R549K96rS5oBGq0-XuCDgUUG8hiusw1-_PPQUZiavozz2YTKi7NvoOp2Wy23HQIo/w640-h508/The+Web+They+Wove+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></span>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-27190345110492789872021-06-02T05:00:00.001+01:002021-06-02T05:00:00.213+01:00The Ticklemore Treasure Trove by Liz Davies - One Day Blog Blitz<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am excited to be involved in the One Day Blog Blitz for <i>The Ticklemore Treasure Trove</i> by Liz Davies</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDycoYoD9HFLwyvFPe_ySVftHR5L0ycj1-506ws7vJdIrFDPjy4L9zspDIruzAt8s786tDOrrvm_dfbjFNPpG20L7BzPHwYlH-RCCP7yOjF-z31yTxDB9BDXNvbcxxPjY_fOu7Ppdf-op/s2048/Treasure+Trove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1283" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSDycoYoD9HFLwyvFPe_ySVftHR5L0ycj1-506ws7vJdIrFDPjy4L9zspDIruzAt8s786tDOrrvm_dfbjFNPpG20L7BzPHwYlH-RCCP7yOjF-z31yTxDB9BDXNvbcxxPjY_fOu7Ppdf-op/w400-h640/Treasure+Trove.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Nell Chapman has always assumed that one (or the other) of her twin sons would help run her antique shop once they finished university. The boys, however, have other plans, when they announce they're going backpacking for a year, leaving Nell feeling bereft and lonely.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Not only that, but with their father (her lying, cheating ex-husband) back on the scene and demanding half of the business, there might not be anything left for her boys to help manage when they return.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>However, she hasn’t counted on the unexpected support of local landscape artist, Silas Long. And neither has she considered the possibility she might fall in love again – especially since Silas is so distant and moody, and has his own cross to bear.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Should Nell take a chance and risk her heart, or should she leave well alone? And why has Silas painted her portrait if he doesn’t feel anything for her?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">A perfect romantic read for fans of Heidi Swain and Sarah Morgan</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-48166d2d-7fff-e151-de68-1bacebda62fc"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><a href="http://mybook.to/TicklemoreTreasure" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://mybook.to/TicklemoreTreasure</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3miiMabwBP80ktvnpJmOceQ11A4BxQex5grNaqvQxB4B9z0WpQXS3GsnjWfy-pSqLx1o-EW6JE6SZHYDyQnIuVPcx3b74lhs4XY0PamHAWZ1ChIwj6nT-2d4aiSEf78yKsD2aHM2RFEs/s700/The+Ticklemore+Treasure+Trove.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW3miiMabwBP80ktvnpJmOceQ11A4BxQex5grNaqvQxB4B9z0WpQXS3GsnjWfy-pSqLx1o-EW6JE6SZHYDyQnIuVPcx3b74lhs4XY0PamHAWZ1ChIwj6nT-2d4aiSEf78yKsD2aHM2RFEs/w400-h158/The+Ticklemore+Treasure+Trove.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Liz Davies writes feel-good, light-hearted stories with a hefty dose of romance, a smattering of humour, and a great deal of love.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; 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color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/lizdaviesauthor</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-3099677980659471302021-05-27T05:00:00.001+01:002021-05-27T05:00:00.206+01:00Maltese Steel by Stuart Field - Blog Tour + Guest Post<p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am thrilled to be involved in the Blog Tour for <b>Maltese Steel</b> (A John Steel Thriller) ..... check out the guest post by author Stuart Field on why he set his latest novel in Malta</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNglMqL_Mo9ngH3ptpG_OsjWi656tkK1lWIY2Q4Ksq8kkTr7DzNIAXCgt-cD9_WoB2c3F9noG5X1Ah0z0mJmMqIK2bgCX2RWgpxnLJ-RPoVpRcbpjOEBFeTfvsCpglqfy2f0F27mv7tfL/s2048/Maltese-Steel-Main-File%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNglMqL_Mo9ngH3ptpG_OsjWi656tkK1lWIY2Q4Ksq8kkTr7DzNIAXCgt-cD9_WoB2c3F9noG5X1Ah0z0mJmMqIK2bgCX2RWgpxnLJ-RPoVpRcbpjOEBFeTfvsCpglqfy2f0F27mv7tfL/w426-h640/Maltese-Steel-Main-File%25281%2529.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #800180;">A woman is found dead on the island of Gozo. The cops say she fell from the Azure Window tourist spot, but her father thinks otherwise.</span></i></span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2efa8918-7fff-f38a-d715-2a7d3222a652"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>CIA Section Chief Foster needs help to prove it was murder, so he turns to the only person he knows can get the job done: John Steel.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>The Hive, securely seated under the US Embassy on the island of Malta, is an operation that monitors all passage from North Africa and the Middle East into Europe and the US. A platform that requires the latest in technology and facial recognition.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>In seven days, that software will be updated. In two days, all hell will break loose. And the clock is ticking for an attack on American soil.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Together with the beautiful Sammara Malk of Mossad, can Steel find out who killed Lucy - and stop whoever is behind the impending attack?</i></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Purchase Links </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maltese-Steel-John-Book-ebook/dp/B08X393QRM/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maltese-Steel-John-Book-ebook/dp/B08X393QRM/</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Maltese-Steel-John-Book-ebook/dp/B08X393QRM/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; 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font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b>GUEST POST BY AUTHOR STUART FIELD</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-35b5abdc-7fff-e150-57f8-626b06e5ac32"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fifth novel of the John Steel thriller series, Maltese Steel, is set on the fantastic island of Malta and the island of Gozo.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why did I choose Malta? When I had the idea for the fifth book of the series, I knew I needed somewhere special because it would be a new chapter in the series. This was the one that would see John Steel break away from the NYPD team and go it alone.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before I wrote Maltese Steel, I had already been there on holiday. I discovered how fantastic and awe-inspiring the island was. Its rugged landscape was beautiful yet, harshness to it. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We took a tour of the island with a brilliant chap who does a film tour guide. He took us around to the other cities, each one just adding to the brilliants of the island. Then sometime later, we went over to Gozo on the ferry. We were lucky enough to have seen the Azure Window, one of the places I felt I had to put into the story. Unfortunately, years later, it collapsed in a storm.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I felt Malta was like John Steel in a way. It was harsh but beautiful, where Steel is dangerous but handsome. They are both independent souls but find strength when partnered with the right group or person. They have both seen many hardships but become stronger for them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I have a story in my head and discover the right setting for the story, I feel I have to go there. Sure, the internet can show you things, but you don’t get the feel of the place. You don’t experience the smells and tastes, the temperature, the sounds of the birds (the cries of the local seabird, which sounds like the cries of a baby – very strange).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malta is a brilliant island with fantastic people, including the hotel that I stayed in and also features in the book. The hotel is spectacular, and the staff are the best. Little wonder it is called the Excelsior. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both Malta and Gozo have it all. Culture, the beaches, fantastic food, sites to see. Or just a nice place to relax.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 28.35pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a writer of either a thriller, historical or even a romance, Malta and Gozo, I would say, is a must. For a holiday, they are an absolute must.</span></p><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Meet the Author</span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c828ac6-7fff-0ffe-a435-21b209e620d5" style="font-weight: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Stuart Field is a veteran who now works in security after serving twenty-two years in the British Army. As well as working full time he writes in his spare time. Stuart was born and raised in the West Midlands in the UK. His love for travel has been an inspiration in some of his work with his John Steel thriller series. As well as future John Steel novels, Stuart is working on a new series and standalone novels.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDK_WEGU2Y2_RDL6eK-VzF-latMIlAqgAuT_m9ThuE_EVCDHq4XZ0OodgNTt7z7oz4sXdGvPn_Cg_NY6DMMIUAIg8sfA4DpymZ3DO_rtTQY107khwY1VZ5FKYNTP8hQdQzwgbu06x-S8Fj/s1200/Maltest+Steel+Author+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDK_WEGU2Y2_RDL6eK-VzF-latMIlAqgAuT_m9ThuE_EVCDHq4XZ0OodgNTt7z7oz4sXdGvPn_Cg_NY6DMMIUAIg8sfA4DpymZ3DO_rtTQY107khwY1VZ5FKYNTP8hQdQzwgbu06x-S8Fj/s320/Maltest+Steel+Author+Photo.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></span></span></div></span>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-38077204783407772542021-05-25T05:00:00.001+01:002021-05-25T05:00:00.231+01:00Body on the Rocks by Rachel Green - Blog Tour<p><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am delighted to be involved in the blog tour for <b>Body on the Rocks</b> by Rachel Green</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GLaCVzh8AgSlVRuRPTnbrsZMFsePgqjcaXSqvByhSFCTTkI-2mDwQIzu5E1_AQxgPIfkVQLgRsbM-uQ6C6bDwEQFnOzv9qeB3vLUFszKvyEC5lVqaAxd1E95Oui_3EWgj-QZ6lAjchsl/s2048/Body+on+the+Rocks+%2528cover%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1283" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GLaCVzh8AgSlVRuRPTnbrsZMFsePgqjcaXSqvByhSFCTTkI-2mDwQIzu5E1_AQxgPIfkVQLgRsbM-uQ6C6bDwEQFnOzv9qeB3vLUFszKvyEC5lVqaAxd1E95Oui_3EWgj-QZ6lAjchsl/w400-h640/Body+on+the+Rocks+%2528cover%2529.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; 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But when the body of a small boy washes up on a beach, Margot is drawn into a dangerous world of drug smugglers and people trafficking, and forced to cross paths with two feuding gangsters.</span></i></span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3167cddb-7fff-3a00-0547-48001713d253"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Purchase Links</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Rocks-France-Madame-Investigates-ebook/dp/B08X1GJ9GX" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Rocks-France-Madame-Investigates-ebook/dp/B08X1GJ9GX</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Body-Rocks-France-Madame-Investigates-ebook/dp/B08X1GJ9GX" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/Body-Rocks-France-Madame-Investigates-ebook/dp/B08X1GJ9GX</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg6o-FKc9tcGy-7VL6YuJBBjREOB4PiDqB_jHlx4n3fCdWadp4Ft7I1R-k8NWuAOWhb3YuSqudlj9HhZTbgfB8_5c-gCnSIDjF0IDLU2Uz3zAkOOv9ltEgzfs2InDoUW9uBc3l0MpPbMs/s700/Body+On+The+Rocks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrg6o-FKc9tcGy-7VL6YuJBBjREOB4PiDqB_jHlx4n3fCdWadp4Ft7I1R-k8NWuAOWhb3YuSqudlj9HhZTbgfB8_5c-gCnSIDjF0IDLU2Uz3zAkOOv9ltEgzfs2InDoUW9uBc3l0MpPbMs/w640-h252/Body+On+The+Rocks.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>Meet the Author</b></span></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-956f0613-7fff-1aa4-cfbf-dd62c3910efb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Rachel Green is the pen name of a writer from the UK. Rachel has twice been longlisted for both the Bath Novel Award and the BPA First Novel Award, as well as being on the shortlist for the Capital Crime New Voices Award. Rachel lives in a tiny village in England, but travels frequently to the south of France where the stories from the Madame Renard Investigates series are set.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Media Links – Twitter: @</span><a href="https://twitter.com/AuthorRachelG" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AuthorRachelG </span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB3z3REt_cHaIKlFhoAkvXhof6O8zQ6v0cTk6Z3tazSr5h1FsH6LRMA_T_Tx56pnAOBUCF2i2U7sKH-2HUlPQoXdaM93dQR_bIyRR4hd2R4I0qNkaljxIkP_4QCObwixLmgeGhheKiFa8F/s2048/Retribution+Cover_Image+-+Retribution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1339" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB3z3REt_cHaIKlFhoAkvXhof6O8zQ6v0cTk6Z3tazSr5h1FsH6LRMA_T_Tx56pnAOBUCF2i2U7sKH-2HUlPQoXdaM93dQR_bIyRR4hd2R4I0qNkaljxIkP_4QCObwixLmgeGhheKiFa8F/w418-h640/Retribution+Cover_Image+-+Retribution.jpg" width="418" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>A young woman has been murdered on Ripton Beach. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i> DSS ‘Archie’ Baldrick and DC Ben Travers eventually identify the body as that of Lucy Martin, who has been renting a bach in the area. Her husband, Oliver, seems to know very little about his wife or her background. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i> What was Lucy hiding? Why has she no family or friends?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i> As the number of suspects mounts up, Archie begins to conclude that the real answer lies in Lucy’s dark and mysterious past, and that the murderer may be just a little too close for comfort …</i></span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-d0f9ca64-7fff-549c-dd76-8cd7c70cfa29" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; 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font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EXTRACT</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dd10a268-7fff-2b6f-5d0d-4a801a01cd3c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><b>Notes: This scene takes place in the mortuary where Archie and Travers are awaiting confirmation of the young woman’s cause of death and any other personal details that may help them discover her killer.</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Archie stood surreptitiously leaning against the wall of the mortuary. The old mattress on the motel bed had been soft and lumpy and now his back ached without mercy. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Or is it really because you hate mortuaries? </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The gentle but persistent voice of Dr Rach echoed at the back of his mind.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">‘I was right,’ Vincent Sharpe said with jolly satisfaction. ‘She was indeed drowned, by person or persons unknown. But that’s your job.’ He grinned ghoulishly at Archie. ‘There was seawater in the lungs and fresh bruising to the back of the neck and the tip of her nose.’ He stood over the slender form of Lucy Martin, laid out beneath a pale green sheet on the slab. ‘No obvious distinguishing marks like tattoos. But her hair was dyed blonde − quite a feat as her natural colour was quite dark. It would have to have been stripped of its colour first and then dyed. She’s also had some pretty expensive dentistry: there are crowns on most of her front teeth. No defence wounds,’ he added, uncovering the body to the waist, ‘but that’s hardly surprising.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Archie levered himself away from the wall to take a closer look at the corpse, and it struck him again what a lack of colour there was in death. Travers was already leaning hunched over the table, his arms crossed in front of him. He looked up at Vincent, a puzzled expression on his face.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">‘What are we looking at?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Dr Sharpe lifted one of Lucy’s arms. ‘See this? Fine hairs on the forearms, except around the wrist area. Odd, don’t you think?’</span></span></p><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b>Meet the Author</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun0679-2pptcIrOhpT8lIBpAuwRnLTI3qJT1FZPugcK_X-AvzPSpTHpCUrOpSpteBo1aNJ5iEAY_6FuXPbEPy3DE57i68lHetVDrWk1yiEnv-rJKKiwUhA1F8UNS9oMZba5EymY0-LubZ/s2048/Retribution+-+Author+photo+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhun0679-2pptcIrOhpT8lIBpAuwRnLTI3qJT1FZPugcK_X-AvzPSpTHpCUrOpSpteBo1aNJ5iEAY_6FuXPbEPy3DE57i68lHetVDrWk1yiEnv-rJKKiwUhA1F8UNS9oMZba5EymY0-LubZ/s320/Retribution+-+Author+photo+1.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-9e84f40e-7fff-1bd2-6123-dc1c4c919416" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Christina is a writer and professional proofreader living in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Four of her short stories have been published, one in a magazine and the others in anthologies produced by Page and Blackmore, Rangitawa Publishing and most recently in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Fresh Ink: Voices from Aotearoa</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, produced by Cloud Ink Press. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">As well as being a finalist in the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards,</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Christina’s first crime novel </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Into the Void</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> was longlisted for the 2019 Michael Gifkins Memorial Prize for an unpublished novel. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Media Links – </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Christina-OReilly-Author-102419694721372/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.facebook.com/Christina-OReilly-Author-102419694721372/</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Check out the other Bloggers on the Tour</span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU9S97GK-Ndj2sOHcuMwELTgGQZ7WcaNmFJoVjZq8oYQojDUuxSgzbECg24JHs2dt9uCuUrphGTx1KtCRucSDskvfIW5UQ9ieux2rdM06Pc1FzkIAIrtG6nD7dT-_kQjF3jTCfbBajti-J/s2048/Retribution+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zGAMe8GDVXNbWUT3WGFqMgAkTM5v0Dr_GnEaoLJmow0-__k9uzMfYa1EiZWI4iFd9EX0mPBvUJ7rrWk9Ze-w3WydyxRPpCUTAP_vOJ0pfTNjbeFaQos05TRv959RVGv-LdILHa-KMwk4/s500/ATS+audiobook+cover+51cJW8QPBCL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zGAMe8GDVXNbWUT3WGFqMgAkTM5v0Dr_GnEaoLJmow0-__k9uzMfYa1EiZWI4iFd9EX0mPBvUJ7rrWk9Ze-w3WydyxRPpCUTAP_vOJ0pfTNjbeFaQos05TRv959RVGv-LdILHa-KMwk4/w640-h640/ATS+audiobook+cover+51cJW8QPBCL.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When a violent storm blasts England’s south coast, it’s up to retired Italian detective Giuseppe Bianchi to sift through the devastation and piece together the tragic events left behind in the storm’s wake.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Giuseppe Bianchi’s brief visit to Bexhill-on-Sea has become an extended stay. He is loath to return to his home in Rome because of the haunting images that made him leave in the first place. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>During his morning walks along the seafront with Beagle, Max, he meets Edward Swain, who becomes Giuseppe's walking companion. They form a friendship of sorts and find they have a similar outlook on life.1</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>But the devastating events of a single night lead Giuseppe to question the truth about Edward Swain. Teaming up with young journalist Christina Rossi - his cousin's daughter - Giuseppe learns about the brutal reality lurking behind the day-to-day life of families in the local community. And as the story unravels Giuseppe is reminded how anger and revenge can lead to the most dreadful of crimes.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the Storm</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the second novel in the Giuseppe Bianchi mystery series - the much-awaited sequel to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crossing the Line.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Grab your copy today, and enjoy the intrigue of traditional English mystery, cleverly combined with a continental twist.</span></span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-49b088fb-7fff-bce0-f468-94c5320c4991"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/Afterthestormaudio" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://viewbook.at/Afterthestormaudio</span></a></span></span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKYxDNNDLwVHGJHTr0rwmLpWi_Kr2RXTRNojnwz4UCr4YjU2QfV5LCpFxAkIRVZBklGIPzEpKlL-1jYv-n9ikPe5VcVa5TfNZYuxXczP6K71yDNAqvPhC2ohD1oOJubEUxpgK8fsoZHwsA/s700/After+The+Storm+Audio.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKYxDNNDLwVHGJHTr0rwmLpWi_Kr2RXTRNojnwz4UCr4YjU2QfV5LCpFxAkIRVZBklGIPzEpKlL-1jYv-n9ikPe5VcVa5TfNZYuxXczP6K71yDNAqvPhC2ohD1oOJubEUxpgK8fsoZHwsA/w400-h158/After+The+Storm+Audio.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><b>My Thoughts</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><b><i>After the Storm</i></b> is, like the storm itself that batters the small seaside town, a rollercoaster of a read as the truth is gradually uncovered about the guests in the lodging house that Guiseppe's friend Edward owned.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">I enjoyed the setting of the sixties, and found this to be a slow and steady read, with the lyrical tones of narrator Charles Johnston who made it a very enjoyable and compelling story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">I loved the relationship between the methodical thinker, Guiseppe, and his niece, Christina, the local newspaper reporter as they begin to unravel the many secrets that people in a small town keep, they really complemented one another.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">A gently-paced, enjoyable read that I would recommend to anyone looking for a new mystery author.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><b>Meet the Author</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKXihQotn8blB0VHyKlYcwp1Pv2kW0Fv_-CdUczsaNuMY1R_xKW722-YN6GLEu5PKrZL4YLlHWjl4xxTTORVLmHmQ43KbhwgIvYNWU3PVHZ1Uclf-VRzwxGNrY6KBf_t5KlXHDFf8SxHe/s1414/Isabella+Muir+02+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="1414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKXihQotn8blB0VHyKlYcwp1Pv2kW0Fv_-CdUczsaNuMY1R_xKW722-YN6GLEu5PKrZL4YLlHWjl4xxTTORVLmHmQ43KbhwgIvYNWU3PVHZ1Uclf-VRzwxGNrY6KBf_t5KlXHDFf8SxHe/s320/Isabella+Muir+02+small.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Isabella is never happier than when she is immersing herself in the sights, sounds and experiences of the 1960s. Researching all aspects of family life back then formed the perfect launch pad for her works of fiction. Isabella rediscovered her love of writing fiction during two happy years working on and completing her MA in Professional Writing and since then she has gone on to publish six novels, three novellas and two short story collections.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her latest novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the Storm, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the second novel in a new series of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sussex Crimes, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">featuring retired Italian detective, Giuseppe Bianchi who is escaping from tragedy in Rome, only to arrive in the quiet seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, to come face-to-face with it once more.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her first </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sussex Crime Mystery</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series features young librarian and amateur sleuth, Janie Juke. Set in the late 1960s, in the fictional seaside town of Tamarisk Bay, we meet Janie, who looks after the mobile library. She is an avid lover of Agatha Christie stories – in particular Hercule Poirot. Janie uses all she has learned from the Queen of Crime to help solve crimes and mysteries. As well as three novels, there are three novellas in the series, which explore some of the back story to the Tamarisk Bay characters.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Isabella’s standalone novel, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Forgotten Children</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, deals with the emotive subject of the child migrants who were sent to Australia – again focusing on family life in the 1960s, when the child migrant policy was still in force.</span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-2c854faf-7fff-e8e6-b3d0-da47cd2e6ca9" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; 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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SussexMysteries" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/SussexMysteries</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/IsabellaMuirAuthor" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1824" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4UiP7idGyi1Rir6zzzffXqt5EpC7lIVDltFOoez5ceAiJx1Zj_OO1om0QrnE7us9QQDzlNBhFVFYCqEWVmLDR9osbr7gTjWST9RxXMC9Q8AbnQxuHRj8LmtESnFSLHUHhZFBSPwFyTd1/w640-h414/After+The+Storm+Audio+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-79826309147042978302021-05-16T05:00:00.001+01:002021-05-16T05:00:00.219+01:00A Knot of Sparrows by Cheryl Rees-Price - Book Blog Tour<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm delighted to be involved in the blog tour for <b><i>A Knot of Sparrows</i></b> by Cheryl Rees-Price</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFLmnivUUgJUt-rodZcbN04FT_OTzyae0HMGoXK2Z8QSw6eh-dSNIuo1amLCZa5GrvznqDIV1zQx-OxxzjnSyDVdEFf1rfw1bEHJbvQw1yyKOWHTpHV5Eop1KNISek80DFW3gyzgcFEC4/s2048/A+Knot+of+Sparrows+by+Cheryl+Rees-Price.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEFLmnivUUgJUt-rodZcbN04FT_OTzyae0HMGoXK2Z8QSw6eh-dSNIuo1amLCZa5GrvznqDIV1zQx-OxxzjnSyDVdEFf1rfw1bEHJbvQw1yyKOWHTpHV5Eop1KNISek80DFW3gyzgcFEC4/w400-h640/A+Knot+of+Sparrows+by+Cheryl+Rees-Price.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Welsh detective Winter Meadows takes on a new murder case</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>There were a lot of things you could call Stacey Evans. And many of them would be true. And unprintable. But did she deserve to be murdered?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>DI Winter Meadows has no doubt of the answer when he takes on the case. The crime was violent. The victim helpless. But the motives are many, and the only clue is a strange word left on Stacey’s body.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>DI Meadows struggles to pierce the secrecy surrounding the teenager’s busy love life. Was the killer one of her pursuers acting out of jealousy? Maybe someone’s wife seeking revenge?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>But as each suspect is excluded from the enquiry, and other markings turn up, Meadows is convinced that something more sinister is afoot.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When another body is found, a veil of silence descends like a fog upon Gaer Fawr. What more will it take for the village to give up its secrets?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">A KNOT OF SPARROWS is the fourth standalone title in a series of murder mysteries by best-selling author Cheryl Rees-Price. It will appeal to fans of David Pearson, L J Ross, John Dean, Joy Ellis, and Pippa McCathie.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The full list of books is as follows:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">1. THE SILENT QUARRY</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">2. FROZEN MINDS</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">3. SUFFER THE CHILDREN</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">4. A KNOT OF SPARROWS</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Cheryl Rees-Price is also the author of the standalone thriller BLUE HOLLOW.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.28; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">All of these books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback from Amazon.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Purchase Links </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XQS6219/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XQS6219/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl Rees-Price was born in Cardiff and moved as a young child to a small ex-mining village on the edge of the Black Mountain range, South Wales, where she still lives with her husband, daughters and cats. After leaving school she worked as a legal clerk for several years before leaving to raise her two daughters.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl returned to education, studying philosophy, sociology, and accountancy whilst working as a part time book keeper. She now works as a finance director for a company that delivers project management and accounting services.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GJEhhn1GZe1do96jjgFpvOVbC6q9wl0c39vqmNZ9PCaDqVkbcJdV0Oo2E5VevscQwHh0qJK0X13CsU9J5-TUPhVGUSFZc91QxNuJY7hcZBVtwipGjsChHhSyqYS15JchlEhSTP96KpYq/s2048/Cheryl+by+Rasa+Mombeini+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GJEhhn1GZe1do96jjgFpvOVbC6q9wl0c39vqmNZ9PCaDqVkbcJdV0Oo2E5VevscQwHh0qJK0X13CsU9J5-TUPhVGUSFZc91QxNuJY7hcZBVtwipGjsChHhSyqYS15JchlEhSTP96KpYq/s320/Cheryl+by+Rasa+Mombeini+%25282%2529.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In her spare time Cheryl indulges in her passion for writing, the success of writing plays for local performances gave her the confidence to write her first novel. Her other hobbies include walking and gardening which free her mind to develop plots and create colourful characters.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Social Media Links – </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thebookfolks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The Book Folks | Facebook</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorcherylReesPrice" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Cheryl Rees-Price | Facebook</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-18ae7a07-7fff-8cde-5a1e-3ac7a729b47b" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CherylreesPrice" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">https://twitter.com/CherylreesPrice</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Check out the other Bloggers on the Tour</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBv-Q5rmg-eVe4pP7jF2p1oL1WkfgWh9G-4N-ygiO6sTv9_nQODsP1KTGVzOI1vPI82JvC3CDI0VzvXUrBRL8P9RV5SybPvfb3kvE2Q6AojYTjjcPjJROH1DNwVMQIY5JSB8ZhqGn25u5/s2048/A+Knot+of+Sparrows+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="2048" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBv-Q5rmg-eVe4pP7jF2p1oL1WkfgWh9G-4N-ygiO6sTv9_nQODsP1KTGVzOI1vPI82JvC3CDI0VzvXUrBRL8P9RV5SybPvfb3kvE2Q6AojYTjjcPjJROH1DNwVMQIY5JSB8ZhqGn25u5/w640-h374/A+Knot+of+Sparrows+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-51824781968524752762021-05-11T05:00:00.001+01:002021-05-11T05:00:00.272+01:00Paparazzi by Jo Fenton - Blog Tour + Giveaway<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm thrilled to involved in the blog tour for <i><b>Paparazzi</b></i> by Jo Fenton and I have a fabulous Giveaway below</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilk5VBwM-naiiRlKVVms-pTAQLdG6oGR_-eT-IhU-UOR5TJlelJbw9IdwuwaPBmzfOXyUN6iydaJGg-NrYJHTREK6xrlWGt3usx1r-B4gvi5ECiPS7yZ3hWwVA0dFgiLBdJrLkLAYW_wty/s1280/Paparazzi+Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="802" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilk5VBwM-naiiRlKVVms-pTAQLdG6oGR_-eT-IhU-UOR5TJlelJbw9IdwuwaPBmzfOXyUN6iydaJGg-NrYJHTREK6xrlWGt3usx1r-B4gvi5ECiPS7yZ3hWwVA0dFgiLBdJrLkLAYW_wty/w400-h640/Paparazzi+Cover.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>A stalker. A popstar’s family murdered. A terrified photographer.</i></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ca5d3a85-7fff-d7b2-34d6-db18443bdb1e"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>It’s thirty years since Becky White joined the police. Now, six months after leaving the force, she is suffering from PTSD, when an old friend turns up with a tempting offer. </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Following the creation of The White Knight Detective Agency, their first client is a press photographer – a member of the Paparazzi – a young woman with a mysterious and troublesome stalker.</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>But as the case develops, Becky and Joanna find themselves embroiled in murder. When they are unable to prevent further deaths, their investigation takes them down an unexpected path.</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>But can they trust their instinct? And will they identify the killer in time to save a child’s life?</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paparazzi</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the second instalment in the bestselling </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Becky White Thriller</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series. takes you on a journey into the deceptive world of superstars – and those who follow them! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Links </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08ZCK7S37/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08ZCK7S37/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZCK7S37/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZCK7S37/</span></a></p><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLxb6XYEfH5S6BAn6KTafHYwI9HHQiw-0GbPnqazxVzWUZyjIRsbBgEZKRcPiL2KzAyVulM-lVNEcrEKWTRqLAltrj5nJdq-opjJPJnaNZYkW2ziaMc5TnhNFrii0cxbZBKxdxytUuV_N/s700/Paparazzi.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLxb6XYEfH5S6BAn6KTafHYwI9HHQiw-0GbPnqazxVzWUZyjIRsbBgEZKRcPiL2KzAyVulM-lVNEcrEKWTRqLAltrj5nJdq-opjJPJnaNZYkW2ziaMc5TnhNFrii0cxbZBKxdxytUuV_N/w400-h158/Paparazzi.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Meet the Author</b></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-7de5b03f-7fff-2f68-de1f-c20039bfdb35"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jo Fenton grew up in Hertfordshire, UK. She devoured books from an early age, particularly enjoying adventure books, school stories and fantasy. She wanted to be a scientist from aged six after being given a wonderful book titled “Science Can Be Fun”. At eleven, she discovered Agatha Christie and Georgette Heyer, and now has an eclectic and much loved book collection cluttering her home office.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZb0tleZCDVDIV_be1EpdkQ45lTetMUUq8qpyS-CZ4hJU8HK7S4z_im6HJ0AMWU2LBr35y8w3OVAJDztj9bhMCL2ssj8Gv2r7kY7EnzbLT9z6Umj453dSwnF441loaNGyaN4t3HQWgrZv4/s662/Jo+-+profile+photo+2+-+cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZb0tleZCDVDIV_be1EpdkQ45lTetMUUq8qpyS-CZ4hJU8HK7S4z_im6HJ0AMWU2LBr35y8w3OVAJDztj9bhMCL2ssj8Gv2r7kY7EnzbLT9z6Umj453dSwnF441loaNGyaN4t3HQWgrZv4/s320/Jo+-+profile+photo+2+-+cropped.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p style="font-size: x-large;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jo combines an exciting career in Clinical Research with an equally exciting but very different career as a writer of psychological thrillers.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When not working, she runs (very slowly), and chats to lots of people. She lives in Manchester with her husband, two sons, a Corgi and a tankful of tropical fish. She is an active and enthusiastic member of two writing groups and a reading group.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website </span><a href="http://www.jofenton137.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.jofenton137.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jofentonauthor/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: blue; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/jofentonauthor/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jl_fenton" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/jl_fenton</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pinterest: </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jofenton137/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jofenton137/</span></a></p><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-345143da-7fff-3fae-3599-061bfab8ba03"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Giveaway to Win a signed copy of Revelation by Jo Fenton (Open INT)</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPNWWSP2zW7tx6K-A_O5pLRbbD4ooMkr-1Sw3kK2Pcq_WwaDNV5NM1umuvvysJmYUCt4WxfcvLSwCbND-hIawbpFVM4snBRIGuItjwXk6i2VQF-yNefA2bX27n2douit3C3cEGP3sR0Cx/s1688/Giveaway+Prize+-+Revelation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="1058" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPNWWSP2zW7tx6K-A_O5pLRbbD4ooMkr-1Sw3kK2Pcq_WwaDNV5NM1umuvvysJmYUCt4WxfcvLSwCbND-hIawbpFVM4snBRIGuItjwXk6i2VQF-yNefA2bX27n2douit3C3cEGP3sR0Cx/s320/Giveaway+Prize+-+Revelation.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Terms and Conditions</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> –Worldwide entries welcome. 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font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></div>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-3214651730223516302021-05-05T05:30:00.000+01:002021-05-05T05:30:00.260+01:00Glasshouse by Morwenna Blackwood - Blog Tour + Extract<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm delighted to be involved in the blog tour for <b><i>Glasshouse</i></b> by Morwenna Blackwood</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wVre9OmXqh2ekJI3PGY7ipnTRudJVq5vBhU24Ez1Pj60KyqnexdogzI7FdSKDmZp0FMaznsjLnn2trN8CjLdUoYybszN1u_Sebp22k40FXqTgdbeNh5uNRVQBGUwRrL9W05UjZI0pdQ_/s1280/Glasshouse+cover+FINAL2+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="802" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wVre9OmXqh2ekJI3PGY7ipnTRudJVq5vBhU24Ez1Pj60KyqnexdogzI7FdSKDmZp0FMaznsjLnn2trN8CjLdUoYybszN1u_Sebp22k40FXqTgdbeNh5uNRVQBGUwRrL9W05UjZI0pdQ_/w400-h640/Glasshouse+cover+FINAL2+%25281%2529.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~ from the Hippocratic Oath (translated by WHS Jones)</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Psychiatrists, Drs Whittle and Grosvenor, have dedicated their lives to helping their patients, but their approach, and the complications it reveals, lead them into relationships that harm not only themselves. </i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>As their lives entangle, both men find that doing no harm is not as cut-and-dried as they perceived.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Can the patients in their care really trust them? Or are more sinister motives at work?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Delve into the dark world of psychiatric institutions where doctors and residents play a dangerous game where no one is infallible!</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e255dc6-7fff-cd60-ee54-19f8d3f254c4"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><a href="http://mybook.to/glasshousenovel" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://mybook.to/glasshousenovel</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSqjQBwxhs_iY9Yak1EL0on-tmHQz-_tvhHxFr1fehq3vSm_zrBRAXDAxFmrajjZH3TR2zaAF5rvYBsuANHkMwpKU4kGsbEbQbuO_P9srjwbkfJEfEykG6OIAO2B9oIzoPgdyhaRPbH9dP/s700/Glasshouse.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSqjQBwxhs_iY9Yak1EL0on-tmHQz-_tvhHxFr1fehq3vSm_zrBRAXDAxFmrajjZH3TR2zaAF5rvYBsuANHkMwpKU4kGsbEbQbuO_P9srjwbkfJEfEykG6OIAO2B9oIzoPgdyhaRPbH9dP/w400-h158/Glasshouse.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">EXTRACT</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-291e00ca-7fff-b2ff-1242-c55d0c2cdfbe"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">This extract may only be short, but it says a great deal about Dr Sasha Grosvenor...</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The gleaming silver balls of my Newton’s cradle clack together with purifying violence. I stare at them while my mind clears, and pour a second strong black coffee from the pot.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve disinfected the bathroom, and my effects have been returned to their proper positions. The laundry is clean and is in the tumble drier. The wood-burner has fresh wood, I have polished every surface, and all the windows are open. I have showered with tea tree shower gel to disinfect myself, and I have used a considerable amount of mouthwash. I had to get every trace of that woman – and by default, that man – off me. It is exhausting, but I will not stop.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will not stop until Erazmus Whittle is dead. </span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></span></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Morwenna Blackwood was six years old, she got told off for filling a school exercise book with an endless story when she should have been listening to the teacher/eating her tea/colouring with her friends. The story was about a frog. It never did end; and Morwenna never looked back.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDPOpjBGy8HCCN7Kzhykr3eWQbMNnmIZavRkcdZ72aGV0zUH5jGrL2_uGETHLB4H9E6qPPoxozyGuEU6TZXrelQrcM-42Z76M10o3zEzX_dCH8kwD0_Ke9EWNrFu0OBeAOG4NdHqRxcht/s712/morwennapromo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCDPOpjBGy8HCCN7Kzhykr3eWQbMNnmIZavRkcdZ72aGV0zUH5jGrL2_uGETHLB4H9E6qPPoxozyGuEU6TZXrelQrcM-42Z76M10o3zEzX_dCH8kwD0_Ke9EWNrFu0OBeAOG4NdHqRxcht/s320/morwennapromo.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Born and raised in Devon, Morwenna suffered from severe OCD and depression, and spent her childhood and teens in libraries. She travelled about for a decade before returning to Devon. She now has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Exeter, and lives with her husband, son and three cats in a cottage that Bilbo Baggins would be proud of. Her debut psychological thriller, The (D)Evolution of Us, is published by #darkstroke, and has become an Amazon best-seller. When she is not writing, Morwenna works for an animal rescue charity, or can be found down by the sea.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She often thinks about that frog.</span></span><p></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-9ebd09b6-7fff-f2d2-03f1-429bb0d889b1" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Social Media Links – </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter - @</span><a href="https://twitter.com/MorwennaBlackw1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MorwennaBlackw1</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; 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color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morwenna Blackwood page</span></a></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website - </span><a href="http://www.morwennablackwoodauthor.com" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.morwennablackwoodauthor.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Check out the other bloggers on the tour</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-946338618065763542021-05-04T17:00:00.001+01:002021-05-04T17:00:00.194+01:00COVER REVEAL for The Secret Notebook by Julia Wild<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm so excited today to be revealing the cover for <b><i>The Secret Notebook</i></b> by Julia Wild</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Isn't it gorgeous. I love it!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1878tkt8PFUYmO5vTjoALfEw2520hq91SOKWmYnnY3YoP6KLU9crvGVYZPFkhyphenhyphen1So_qJSDFJ2m1p_tGlEbLNscaB5zmxeRvr-0pmNeOzPOLW9In_j7Kd5nDgyp-WE5MkuMTf6HOHgajCi/s2048/206996-FCX.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1341" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1878tkt8PFUYmO5vTjoALfEw2520hq91SOKWmYnnY3YoP6KLU9crvGVYZPFkhyphenhyphen1So_qJSDFJ2m1p_tGlEbLNscaB5zmxeRvr-0pmNeOzPOLW9In_j7Kd5nDgyp-WE5MkuMTf6HOHgajCi/w420-h640/206996-FCX.JPG" width="420" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>When Izzie Dean’s beloved nan, Molly Blackshaw, passes away, Izzie returns to the Blackpool bungalow where she grew up, to say goodbye once and for all. When Izzie’s homecoming reunites her with her first love, Justin Swift, every emotion that Izzie has repressed since the day he broke her heart comes rushing to the surface. But then an unexpected discovery changes everything.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Between the pages of the battered secret diary Molly kept during WWII, Izzie discovers a story of love, heartbreak, and the incomparable hardship of life in a world at war. Reading her grandmother’s words soon puts her own story into perspective, and suddenly Izzie realises that the only thing holding her back from happiness, might be herself. Now she just has to convince Justin that they deserve a second chance at forever…</i></span></span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-f3cef686-7fff-4cfb-4545-15eb17f9fddf" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Pre-Order Links </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08RS6JBRJ/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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I’m a past Hon Sec of the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romantic Novelists’ Association</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, have been a member since 1993 when I joined their New Writers’ Scheme as a probationer. That came about after winning a week’s historical writing course on the strength of the first chapter of my third </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poldark-era</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> romance. The tutor on the last day loved the story and handed me details of the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romantic Novelists’ Association</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – she said I absolutely </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">must </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">join as they would be able to help me towards publication. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some four years later my first published book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dark Canvas</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, won the RNA’s New Writer’s Award in 1997, the sixth, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illusions</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, won the RNA’s Romance Prize in 2003.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After working in the local library service for 18 years, during library cut-backs I took the leap to become self-employed as a writer and worked on releasing my backlist as eBooks for Kindle. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; 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color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-38673821823417328422021-05-04T05:00:00.001+01:002021-05-04T05:00:00.212+01:00The Legacy by Alison Knight - Blog Tour + Guest Post<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Today on the Book Blog Tour, I'm excited to be bringing you a brilliant guest post for <b>The Legacy</b> by Alison Knight in which she talks about how life was back in the sixties, when <b><i>The Legacy</i></b> is set. Alison was a child in the sixties and a teenager in the seventies - I can relate to that at I was exactly the same! Read it and be amazed - how did we manage without the internet and cash machines back then!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-2sWRec52tRYu5NnYxEw41v6BtOQ65VCPYT7Y0DY4CZuCXXJX4ArrTDuQlLZ59l0b_ThHNLNpeXSs4R4BUdXHyUGfEpBnbTUFRLbqGN3yw63p_NZ5xJM_PILkCErxeFlVHp3xRFXfPGr/s1280/The+Legacy+Cover.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="802" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-2sWRec52tRYu5NnYxEw41v6BtOQ65VCPYT7Y0DY4CZuCXXJX4ArrTDuQlLZ59l0b_ThHNLNpeXSs4R4BUdXHyUGfEpBnbTUFRLbqGN3yw63p_NZ5xJM_PILkCErxeFlVHp3xRFXfPGr/w400-h640/The+Legacy+Cover.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 14pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">An unexpected inheritance. A web of deceit. A desperate escape. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 14pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #26282a; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">London, 1969.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 14pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>James has his dreams of an easy life shattered when his aunt disinherits him, leaving her fortune to her god-daughter, Charlotte. He turns to his friend, Percy, to help him reclaim his inheritance – and to pay off his creditors. But when their plans backfire, James becomes the pawn of Percy and his criminal associates.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 14pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Charlotte is stunned when she is told of her windfall. After an attempt at cheating her out of her inheritance fails, James tries to intimidate her. But she is stronger than he thinks, having secrets of her own to guard, and sends him away with a bloody nose and no choice but to retreat for now.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 14pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Resigned, James and his spoilt, pampered girlfriend, Fliss, Percy’s sister, travel across France on a mission that promises to free James from the criminals for good. But James isn’t convinced he can trust Fliss, so he makes his own plans to start a new life.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 14pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Will James be able to get away, or will his past catch up with him? Will Charlotte’s secrets turn the legacy into a curse?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-87604bfc-7fff-e2e1-980b-f358aa0ef41f"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #338fe9; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://mybook.to/legacy" style="text-decoration: none;">mybook.to/legacy</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHziAzWW02x3CjiF9jdiM3Ir3pdMtQ_yE-0ChPGtTfgumhdblZ2zmSwbzVvS7cNg2Oz0lIF2WGx0LtODfrbIz7hs4njjPvjrWNZ91mkULSeZgB645Y4QX60hjw0ATdlGafPwBHp1QzBxxq/s700/The+Legacy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHziAzWW02x3CjiF9jdiM3Ir3pdMtQ_yE-0ChPGtTfgumhdblZ2zmSwbzVvS7cNg2Oz0lIF2WGx0LtODfrbIz7hs4njjPvjrWNZ91mkULSeZgB645Y4QX60hjw0ATdlGafPwBHp1QzBxxq/w400-h158/The+Legacy.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-5f331753-7fff-9ae5-ebae-695e9c0c9b93"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHANGING TIMES by Alison Knight</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this age of Covid, I have been discussing with other writers whether we should include references to the pandemic in our contemporary stories. One of my colleagues has been asked by her publishers to reference it and the changes society faces after lockdown in her next book. But on the whole, I get the impression that my writer friends would prefer to write about a pre-pandemic, Covid-free world. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A child of the sixties</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It isn’t an issue for me at the moment as my latest two books, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mine </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Legacy, </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are set in the late 1960s and my work in progress takes place in the early 1970s. So there is no quarantine, no lock-down and it’s business as usual. But ‘business as usual’ was very different in the sixties and seventies, so much so that some publishers and readers regard stories set in those decades as historical fiction.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was a child in the sixties and a teenager in the seventies. Life was very different then in terms of available technology, sexual politics and economic freedom. People were expected to ‘know their place,’ as referenced in a famous sketch staring John Cleese and the Two Ronnies. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can watch the sketch here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppv97S3ih14" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppv97S3ih14</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The times they are a’changing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the dangers of writing about the past, however recent, is that things change so quickly. Even contemporary writers have to be careful with cultural references as these can easily date a story. The most popular slang phrases today will be regarded as behind the times tomorrow. And there are examples of time-inappropriate gaffs in both books and movies – like when one of the cast of that great historical epic </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben Hur</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was spotted wearing a wristwatch. Many a writer has been caught out by feeding their characters foods or drinks that weren’t available in the time the story was set. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobile phones and all that</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing stories set fifty years ago is both fun and fraught with danger. My editor questioned me when I had a character in 1968 using a car phone. This was unusual, but the character was a chauffeur to a company director and the radio phone fixed to the dashboard was the latest technology (but only if you could afford it). Unlike today’s instant communications, anyone with one of these phones had to contact a radio operator to forward their call to whoever they wanted to speak to. The signal would be lost in areas of high-rise buildings or in tunnels. How do I know this? My father was that chauffeur and we used to use the car phone to call my grandparents to let them know we were coming to see them. They always had the kettle boiling by the time we arrived.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Has Wimbledon always been that </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">green?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apart from this unusual piece of 1960s technology, I have to make sure my stories take into account that not everyone had a car, or even a house phone. I didn’t see my first colour television until 1969. The first programme I saw on it was a Wimbledon tennis match. I was startled by how </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">green</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it looked! Television was very limited – with only three channels and programmes finished at the end of the evening, to be replaced with the test card. This was a grid on various shades of black, white and grey with the image of a little girl playing noughts and crosses on a blackboard with a toy clown looking on.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s a man on the moon!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My latest book, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Legacy,</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is set in London and France in 1969. The main female character is Charlotte, a primary school teacher. It is the summer term and she is about to get her pupils working a new topic – the first moon landing. Although I don’t go into detail about it, I felt it was important to reference this event as those of us who witnessed it knew that the whole world stopped and watched this amazing feat. To ignore it would mean that my story lacked authenticity. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frothy coffee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, what else did I need to remember about life in the sixties? Well, we were still a nation of tea-drinkers, but instant coffee was becoming popular. A 1960s version of a cappuccino was called a frothy coffee. People didn’t have plastic bank cards. The first ATM appeared in Britain in 1967 (and you had to use a radio-active cheque to withdraw a maximum of £10). Working-class people were paid weekly in cash. Girls wore mini-skirts and had pixie cuts, bobs or back-combed hair while their mothers had weekly shampoo and sets and perms. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Hollies and The Animals dominated the charts, alongside our mothers’ favourites, Frank Sinatra and Jim Reeves. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were no computers, mobile phones or video games. Our parents grew up with war-time rationing and would not tolerate food waste. There were fewer cars and more buses, and policemen walked their beats each day. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let me Google that</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I do a lot of my research about the sixties on the internet, but my characters didn’t have the option to do that. If they wanted information, they had to check encyclopaedias or go to the library. Telephone directories gave phone numbers and addresses (little or no data protection in those days!). Travellers had to use maps to find their way around. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The danger of writing stories set in your lifetime is that the decades can merge together in your memory. I have to check each point to make sure my story is authentic to its time. If I get it wrong, I’m sure my readers will let me know!</span></p><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSvXlhC4IBDIgAJdSYazf9Rj3eotEKNy57zL4HPiEB5CZUBqoppFnVA8hzrahPTgZ8dzJQKErtLK2DzjgRjP-46tVzcKtATvvC1njEpAH2Z6ObRhm5mJv-0SEOWQ4NdPrMFTSzPVlUe4b/s5300/The+Legacy+-+april+2021+head+shot+Alison+Knight.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3975" data-original-width="5300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSvXlhC4IBDIgAJdSYazf9Rj3eotEKNy57zL4HPiEB5CZUBqoppFnVA8hzrahPTgZ8dzJQKErtLK2DzjgRjP-46tVzcKtATvvC1njEpAH2Z6ObRhm5mJv-0SEOWQ4NdPrMFTSzPVlUe4b/s320/The+Legacy+-+april+2021+head+shot+Alison+Knight.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Alison has been a legal executive, a registered childminder, a professional fund-raiser and a teacher. She has travelled the world – from spending a year as an exchange student in the US in the 1970s and trekking the Great Wall of China to celebrate her fortieth year and lots of other interesting places in between.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">In her mid-forties Alison went to university part-time and gained a first-class degree in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and an MA in the same subject from Oxford Brookes University, both while still working full-time. Her first book was published a year after she completed her master’s degree.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The Legacy is a drama set in 1960s London. Like her previous book, Mine, it explores themes of class, ambition and sexual politics, showing how ordinary people can make choices that lead them into extraordinary situations.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alison teaches creative and life-writing, runs workshops and retreats with Imagine Creative Writing Workshops(</span><a href="http://www.imaginecreativewriting.co.uk/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.imaginecreativewriting.co.uk</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) as well as working as a freelance editor. She is a member of the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists’ Association.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">She lives in Somerset, within sight of Glastonbury Tor.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-8dcda03d-7fff-2785-fb2b-686ff481fb6a" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Social Media Links – </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18.75pt 0pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/alison.knight.942" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">www.facebook.com/alison.knight.942</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Alison_Knight59" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/Alison_Knight59</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-68369ad3-7fff-78ac-0fd9-1ed78ba6c253" style="font-weight: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 18.75pt;"><a href="http://www.imaginecreativewriting.co.uk" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">www.imaginecreativewriting.co.uk</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://www.darkstroke.com/dark-stroke/alison-knight/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">www.darkstroke.com/dark-stroke/alison-knight/</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 18.75pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Check out the other blogger on the tour for reviews and other stuff</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4AIvKIpNxyt1qH4ISnD8DAScvqG3jzRHZj1-szrKQ9BGm6sSlT87D5aCDRw_zZ_oKEHXceR4g8piQFwboC5pvJuh_dtMIlaEVG8fhiVD4Wlg6uwvGGjpnS9_9LioFYA80nwrZb_mxAEp/s2048/The+Legacy+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="2048" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv4AIvKIpNxyt1qH4ISnD8DAScvqG3jzRHZj1-szrKQ9BGm6sSlT87D5aCDRw_zZ_oKEHXceR4g8piQFwboC5pvJuh_dtMIlaEVG8fhiVD4Wlg6uwvGGjpnS9_9LioFYA80nwrZb_mxAEp/w640-h328/The+Legacy+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></span></span></div>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-42627256326212834372021-05-01T05:30:00.001+01:002021-05-01T05:30:00.237+01:00Banana Devil Cake by Susan A. King - Blog Tour<p><span style="font-family: "Fira Sans";"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Today it's the start of the blog tour for <i>Banana Devil Cake</i> by Susan A. King</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbKarsgD0BpE91AbjV1EgYV98TjM7FIe4szJmrV__rVNe-JQ8VCUCchn12_qKhX2c_28ue6rqdDm4I1Q6sl2IDe_6gXUdAqgxW3klc3IGzZ4HlQ1S92GbjBQ414GFelbg7ZSiWyKByINy/s1701/Banana+Devil+Cake+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1701" data-original-width="1100" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbKarsgD0BpE91AbjV1EgYV98TjM7FIe4szJmrV__rVNe-JQ8VCUCchn12_qKhX2c_28ue6rqdDm4I1Q6sl2IDe_6gXUdAqgxW3klc3IGzZ4HlQ1S92GbjBQ414GFelbg7ZSiWyKByINy/w414-h640/Banana+Devil+Cake+Cover.jpg" width="414" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>With the murder of last year’s fête judge now but a hazy memory, the village of Elmesbury has retired to its former tranquil existence. That is, until a mysterious newcomer sets in motion a series of events that will see members of the W.I. crossing wooden spoons at dawn.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>In the midst of preparing for her long-awaited engagement party, redoubtable village busybody Beattie Bramshaw not only finds herself embroiled in a one-woman campaign to save the elm tree from which the village gets its name, but having to contend with an outbreak of unrest within her beloved W.I. group. Rivalry to win favour with the judge of this year’s fête has fuelled dissent within the ranks and, when two members are found dead in mysterious circumstances, suspicions run rife.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: #800180;">Confident the devil is not only in the cake but in the detail, Beattie determines to uncover the clues that will ultimately lead to the killer’s conviction. But can she solve the mystery before another member of the W.I. is picked off?</span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Banana Devil Cake</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a comedy crime caper in the spirit of Agatha Raisin and one that is guaranteed to lift your spirits. Prepare yourself for a tale of tea, cake and riotous goings-on from the author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marrow Jam</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Purchase Links </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08SWDG367" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08SWDG367</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c62622bb-7fff-2625-e193-892e673ae023"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SWDG367" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SWDG367</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8DO1JWHL0Z9nXEt1nh8J_XUz0f7gsTuzOl15a2kJrMZEwKLgDhKbQ04WmNjvVjtIQMJJeQ5f6tHLaRjNLDVOakWRHzHzcIB7Nt2nIIYRCbgMzKP-V0ae729UfDj8M6hCNPktE_Ksmgqp/s700/Banana+Devil+Cake.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8DO1JWHL0Z9nXEt1nh8J_XUz0f7gsTuzOl15a2kJrMZEwKLgDhKbQ04WmNjvVjtIQMJJeQ5f6tHLaRjNLDVOakWRHzHzcIB7Nt2nIIYRCbgMzKP-V0ae729UfDj8M6hCNPktE_Ksmgqp/w400-h158/Banana+Devil+Cake.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meet the Author</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Susan A. King lives with her husband in a quiet suburb in Hampshire. Between them they have four grown-up sons.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjENoZ9noWGFzLVgITBaimxeMo0M2lmd1PKNni_KgyNIoMkbMkio4hrkv2APp5DQRhGMMDJWlRpIqyLYxWW4lIliRpVsjSOTb27p6EhfNBJ0E-ILh2JUsdkT0SlifpPUuTFuzjnNyoeZRhK/s1947/Banana+Devil+Cake+Author+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1947" data-original-width="1947" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjENoZ9noWGFzLVgITBaimxeMo0M2lmd1PKNni_KgyNIoMkbMkio4hrkv2APp5DQRhGMMDJWlRpIqyLYxWW4lIliRpVsjSOTb27p6EhfNBJ0E-ILh2JUsdkT0SlifpPUuTFuzjnNyoeZRhK/s320/Banana+Devil+Cake+Author+Photo.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The inspiration for her Beattie Bramshaw novels comes from her long experience and observation of competitors at the local Romsey Show, where she regularly aspires to win Best in Show with her floral arrangements.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-192ec707-7fff-1d59-619e-563cb687ea30"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – Twitter @</span><a href="https://twitter.com/SusanKing63" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SusanKing63</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Insta @</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/susan.king63/" style="text-decoration: none;">susan.king63</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Look out for the other bloggers on the tour</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8R7UYK9zBJniT3y9_pHReZG9YNxCLI5gdjdqqLkEq5aT5Y99VN6vSX-Xz5Tbb2-EkqpYgmouW6GLQ2Wsg3KssvJnwbioxw_UM4BkBp18xQ5zMdTT3UJwVTSYBMfUQe-JfxFlZKn6LDLQt/s2591/Banana+Devil+Cake+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="2591" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8R7UYK9zBJniT3y9_pHReZG9YNxCLI5gdjdqqLkEq5aT5Y99VN6vSX-Xz5Tbb2-EkqpYgmouW6GLQ2Wsg3KssvJnwbioxw_UM4BkBp18xQ5zMdTT3UJwVTSYBMfUQe-JfxFlZKn6LDLQt/w640-h300/Banana+Devil+Cake+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-84030654661622732132021-05-01T05:00:00.001+01:002021-05-01T05:00:00.231+01:00Primrose Park by Christie Barlow - One Day Blog Blitz<p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am so pleased to be involved in today's one day Blog Blitz for <i><b>Primrose Park</b></i> by Christie Barlow</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0XsdL11AS1Zt2-hHkFqVfdh62s8dRAzwd5cfKwqsFc0aHBCiycpo6stoS35_bHLEp4XC8SZ26STYEJMG28CcyLWe9Iy3uASEJnBVwY0qnfj6eP-LYqMmOBr-n55QAXvN70CLL2rl4fsT/s2048/primrose+park.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1334" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0XsdL11AS1Zt2-hHkFqVfdh62s8dRAzwd5cfKwqsFc0aHBCiycpo6stoS35_bHLEp4XC8SZ26STYEJMG28CcyLWe9Iy3uASEJnBVwY0qnfj6eP-LYqMmOBr-n55QAXvN70CLL2rl4fsT/w416-h640/primrose+park.jpg" width="416" /></span></a></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-dce00068-7fff-4862-d81f-6335a51b1213"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i>Vet Molly has always been career driven and focussed on caring for her animals, but when she meets a gorgeous Mystery Man at a conference and their connection is off the charts, well, one night off work won’t hurt anyone…except the next morning he’s vanished and all Molly knows about him is his first name.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i>Three months later, back in Love Heart Lane, everyone loves the story of Molly's amazing one-night stand. It's so unlike her! But when Mystery Man turns up walking his dog through Primrose Park and their night together seems to mean nothing to him, Molly needs her friends and neighbours more than ever. And especially when she’s left with the most unexpected of surprises…</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Links </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK – </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DR8PGSQ" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DR8PGSQ</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DR8PGSQ" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DR8PGSQ</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcil_51Xj12BG-4ugX02eQqRnm0O-hIrcwE9JZVcs8dQin6ecrXP0yVn957IQMcq297tj6ywNt7XGjDANbBpjQMVPKfncXxn2BVNeQsTAUyATF7IAc5WGsCg8PUKDbwcalIg_71reofa5/s700/Primrose+Park.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcil_51Xj12BG-4ugX02eQqRnm0O-hIrcwE9JZVcs8dQin6ecrXP0yVn957IQMcq297tj6ywNt7XGjDANbBpjQMVPKfncXxn2BVNeQsTAUyATF7IAc5WGsCg8PUKDbwcalIg_71reofa5/w400-h158/Primrose+Park.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christie Barlow is the number one international bestselling author of fifteen romantic comedies including the iconic Love Heart Lane Series, A Home at Honeysuckle Farm and Kitty's Countryside Dream. She lives in a ramshackle cottage in a quaint village in the heart of Staffordshire with her four children and two dogs.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her writing career has come as a lovely surprise when Christie decided to write a book to teach her children a valuable life lesson and show them that they are capable of achieving their dreams. Christie's dream was to become a writer and the book she wrote to prove a point went on to become a #1 international bestseller in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmJQGqFFBi7UEx54_Y-ve-1QMmxMm6t8lMal3GFerFjNg9sL38Pktfo8n9FUHU_orzx51QxbqCSGwKi8PBpHw-4PGrivQmCHd11n_w7fPgDnbvIkBrWx7-TBkoBEKTYRjdCCwkWiNd6rt/s750/IMG_5887.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKmJQGqFFBi7UEx54_Y-ve-1QMmxMm6t8lMal3GFerFjNg9sL38Pktfo8n9FUHU_orzx51QxbqCSGwKi8PBpHw-4PGrivQmCHd11n_w7fPgDnbvIkBrWx7-TBkoBEKTYRjdCCwkWiNd6rt/s320/IMG_5887.JPG" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Christie isn't writing she co-presents The Book Show on Radio Northwich, enjoys playing the piano, is a keen gardener and loves to paint and upcycle furniture.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christie is an ambassador for the @ZuriProject alongside Patron of the charity, Emmerdale's Bhasker Patel. They raise money and awareness for communities in Uganda.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christie loves to hear from her readers and you can get in touch via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Social Media Links – </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/christie_barlow/?hl=en" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.instagram.com/christie_barlow/?hl=en</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ChristieJBarlow" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@ChristieJBarlow</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-55be5469-7fff-d41c-2614-6b55bc10f5bf"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChristieJBarlow/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christie Barlow author</span></a></span></span></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-85615800630760143472021-04-30T05:00:00.001+01:002021-04-30T05:00:00.277+01:00Death of a Texan by Cat Hickey - Book Blog Tour<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am thrilled today to be involved in the blog tour for <i><b>Death of a Texan</b></i> by Cat Hickey (Book Two of the Chloe Parsons Mysteries)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VepSHok6ABSLkj2DRp4ZvoPTG7zt1V1OD_ankMbUISeRN3IQ75k5l7dwsD5EQdzKYikF7MjZbaQ3Chux4eYy7Jf9O_4HDaI54xqDwhxim4TvoPSf6e5PMKEJRunwFD6xvYB0KTXgFxZs/s1280/Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="781" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VepSHok6ABSLkj2DRp4ZvoPTG7zt1V1OD_ankMbUISeRN3IQ75k5l7dwsD5EQdzKYikF7MjZbaQ3Chux4eYy7Jf9O_4HDaI54xqDwhxim4TvoPSf6e5PMKEJRunwFD6xvYB0KTXgFxZs/w390-h640/Cover.jpg" width="390" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>A grieving widow. A sketchy admirer. An adoring boyfriend.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>But one of them is up to no good.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Chloe's new life in Costa Rica seems perfect: her relationship with Mateo is heating up, and her career as a private investigator is off to a good start. She only wishes that her cases were more interesting than the lost dogs or cheating husbands she's been hired for so far…</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>She gets her wish when a dead body lands, almost literally, at her feet. Hired by the highly strung Elena Vargas to follow her husband, Victor, Chloe discovers that not only was he cheating on his wife – he's been murdered.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>As Chloe delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Victor's death, she uncovers secret after secret. The danger becomes all too real when she narrows in on the killer's identity. Someone is following her everywhere, and threatening notes arrive on her doorstep.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>As if that's not bad enough, her relationship with Mateo begins to unravel, and his coworker, Jaime, seems intent on convincing her that Mateo is a cheater.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Desperately trying to figure out what's going on, Chloe becomes more and more enmeshed in a sordid world of lies, sex, and murder.</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Who can Chloe really trust? And can she catch the killer before she becomes the next victim?</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-51e63f70-7fff-f820-b3f6-7c7bf751dbbf"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><a href="http://mybook.to/deathofatexan" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://mybook.to/deathofatexan</span></a><span style="color: #2f5496; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2f5496; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaKZBX0Cyy3CaqHusE21axewQcSYdW0G0kcrY8C4A-FUTdsThYYmVsMen_mSNNTmatVjapVgupoBpV1MqBS7XR24l2gXcLmxATjJpDBLzEMYsFSsv1BaTV88UHhyphenhyphenvAxpLYcpXTkd-yvY4O/s700/Death+of+a+Texan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaKZBX0Cyy3CaqHusE21axewQcSYdW0G0kcrY8C4A-FUTdsThYYmVsMen_mSNNTmatVjapVgupoBpV1MqBS7XR24l2gXcLmxATjJpDBLzEMYsFSsv1BaTV88UHhyphenhyphenvAxpLYcpXTkd-yvY4O/w400-h158/Death+of+a+Texan.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #2f5496; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span><span style="color: #2f5496; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Cat Hickey has a Master’s degree in Biology, and teaches Anatomy and Physiology at a university in Baltimore, MD, USA. She writes light-hearted mysteries and thrillers that are based, partly, on her extensive travels around the world. She is also an avid yogi who teaches aerial yoga and practices aerial circus arts, and spends the rest of her time with her three rescue animals, which consist of three cats and a horse.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrQaR2CnMUsAj3qRfdveuBR_1GEAkywtj7d3WhRH3tmJVLkIn1HlLseS3NnzU_Zd-_NUol2L39jPFNRW1n7uL4J0SxW3Fct_HJ1yFi3EZxr7yRqzEd4yNxCn9hzsroLRNdkhRC2Zze5zi/s2048/Cat+Hickey+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1557" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrQaR2CnMUsAj3qRfdveuBR_1GEAkywtj7d3WhRH3tmJVLkIn1HlLseS3NnzU_Zd-_NUol2L39jPFNRW1n7uL4J0SxW3Fct_HJ1yFi3EZxr7yRqzEd4yNxCn9hzsroLRNdkhRC2Zze5zi/s320/Cat+Hickey+3.JPG" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – </span><a href="http://www.facebook/cathickey" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.facebook/cathickey</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fe3440aa-7fff-05ca-8a7c-0d64354323de"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CatHickey4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/CatHickey4</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Check out all the other bloggers taking part in the tour for reviews etc.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7gYCDjWfo0zSXrXS5aakIlKtr_df-vci9mosFZTQoSSmwTLW2YA3mlGgyi4FaAkNOrhCGxh9R562-fBU2RpBsQxNwbYNcpqi9GEBDH9vxr3uYmqxyfuZit-3jleWIhyphenhyphenMn9DcyvmfPCD1/s2048/Death+of+a+Texan+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="2048" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7gYCDjWfo0zSXrXS5aakIlKtr_df-vci9mosFZTQoSSmwTLW2YA3mlGgyi4FaAkNOrhCGxh9R562-fBU2RpBsQxNwbYNcpqi9GEBDH9vxr3uYmqxyfuZit-3jleWIhyphenhyphenMn9DcyvmfPCD1/w640-h350/Death+of+a+Texan+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-42064664810460594582021-04-27T05:00:00.001+01:002021-04-27T05:00:00.228+01:00Janey Trelawney's Year of Surprising Triumphs by Georgia Hill - Book Blog Tour<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I am delighted to be involved in the Blog Tour for <b><i>Janey Trelawney's Year of Surprising Triumphs</i></b> by Georgia Hill</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiStq9j8Yh6haa7fXjf1c_pU7l2AzBusxsQfSFuy-woYrD3lO4crw-E-KxYUtwOB4xGKj4IpKnXByQ0QC6Ropt96m6OcI36ysiU10jjywn6SkmBs1NIX-4Iqfr4Dvj_mdYIjoxS0f7mdOsW/s2048/Jane+Trelawney+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1318" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiStq9j8Yh6haa7fXjf1c_pU7l2AzBusxsQfSFuy-woYrD3lO4crw-E-KxYUtwOB4xGKj4IpKnXByQ0QC6Ropt96m6OcI36ysiU10jjywn6SkmBs1NIX-4Iqfr4Dvj_mdYIjoxS0f7mdOsW/w412-h640/Jane+Trelawney+Front+Cover.jpg" width="412" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Fira Sans"; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i>Janey’s life becomes more disaster movie than romcom when the ruthless Becca steams in to manage Cheney House. Her job as head gardener in peril and her self-confidence in tatters, Janey must fight back. Finding an ally in Will, who’s more Clark Kent than Superman, it’s up to them to save the day while owner Clare is away having her Shirley Valentine moment. It doesn’t help that everyone is in love with the wrong people!</i></span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-83ddbd0c-7fff-3060-565a-88aa7996e3bf"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Why can’t people love the one who loves them back?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 10.5pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Will Cheney House survive - and will Janey ever get her When Harry Met Sally happy ending?</i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; 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There's always a dog. It's usually a naughty spaniel of which, unfortunately, she has had much experience. Her books are firmly rooted in small seaside towns similar to the one she lives in and she loves history especially when it insists on rearing up and battering at the present.</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a child she had an invisible friend called Gonky who lived on the third stair from the bottom. As an adult her invisible friends inhabit her head and refuse to leave until she commits them to paper. 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="2048" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqr7tgD3mzszWkIlGTlefM720dZQvuekmXTyMr1IKT_r_25-3bkFiAtyPuN5uX3VcXKRlSBU9ydTRzpPFRC5C9Lf88RTKbrsip0kl24sS0jsbyRn9O9IWMvMg3M1YEt__4Twp6i1nslpV/w640-h328/Janey+Trelawneys+Year+of+Surprising+Triumphs+Full+Tour+Banner.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><br /></div></span></div></span>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-34486749538026809142021-04-20T05:00:00.002+01:002021-04-20T05:00:00.222+01:00On The Road to Love by Melissa Baldwin - Blog Tour - Guest Post + Giveaway<p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm thrilled to be involved in the blog tour today for <b>ON THE ROAD TO LOVE</b> by Melissa Baldwin - I have a Guest Post and a fantastic Giveaway!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMY4TAgD2FCN03EvYtYs1wnL9wEyjhAHmZP01yzTJ6p_uZAP3WHKHSedwbJLddFBX-o8RgvTT7xmMNdRRBapZG_MrzetCBzsR-wVj_tyoTfsLRVeX5PYGMcuXPBcVccGVtRGzm-X3PrqSv/s2048/OnTheRoadtoLove_3-2+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1394" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMY4TAgD2FCN03EvYtYs1wnL9wEyjhAHmZP01yzTJ6p_uZAP3WHKHSedwbJLddFBX-o8RgvTT7xmMNdRRBapZG_MrzetCBzsR-wVj_tyoTfsLRVeX5PYGMcuXPBcVccGVtRGzm-X3PrqSv/w436-h640/OnTheRoadtoLove_3-2+%25281%2529.jpg" width="436" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">From bestselling romantic comedy author Melissa Baldwin </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">comes the road trip of a lifetime!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Successful Manhattan accountant Stacy Brown is shocked </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>when her almost perfect life unexpectedly crumbles around </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>her. Blindsided by her husband when he serves her with </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>divorce papers and tossed aside by the women she </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>considered her best friends, devastation and depression hit </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>her hard. But when her mother sends her an old photograph </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>of her and two childhood friends, Candace and Olivia, it fuels </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>a desire in Stacy to find that person she once was. What </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>starts as a chance to reconnect turns into an unforgettable </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>road trip back to her childhood home and an encounter with </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>a man from her past. </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Gavin Kingsley, son of Stacy's old piano teacher and former </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>annoying boy next door, sparks something in Stacy that she </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>hasn't felt in a long time…maybe never? Despite her </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>hesitation to jump into a relationship, Stacy can't help being </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>drawn to him as she and her girlfriends take a journey of </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>self-discovery, laughs, tears, and hysterical moments. </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>Can returning to her past give Stacy everything she's been </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>searching for in her future? </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Guest Post by Melissa Baldwin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Distractions? What distractions? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-96b03ce9-7fff-d773-6ced-ad782541f425" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I truly consider myself a master of multi-tasking. I’m proud to </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">say I can fold laundry, put away groceries, get a snack and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">text all at the same time. So why couldn’t I do many different </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">tasks and write?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Because even a master multi-tasker gets distracted! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">No judging, as I will now reveal the FIVE Biggest Distractions </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that keep me from Writing…Drum Roll…</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The love of my life- my dear husband. With our very busy </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Fira Sans"; font-size: x-large;">schedules it’s difficult to find time to spend time </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">together. I try to keep my writing time for when he’s at</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> work or after he goes to bed. Thankfully he’s very </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">supportive of my writing career.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">TV- I’m not a much of a TV person, but I do have a few go </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to guilty pleasures. The Bachelor, General Hospital, and </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">90210 re-runs. (This is where the no judging comes in.) </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It’s a good thing the Bachelor is only on once a year- I’m </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">completely useless on Monday nights.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Social Media- This is an obvious distraction because lets </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">face it, who doesn’t get caught up in the scrolling? </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Confession: I’ve already checked Instagram three times </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">while writing this post.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My daughter- Book ideas, plots, and characters are </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">constantly popping into my head, but my daughter will </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">always come first. She’s my most important distraction.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Working out, chores, talking to friends, answering </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">emails—the list goes on. As a busy author, mother and </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">wife there will always be something to keep me from my </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">laptop.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Most of us feel like we have to be the best and do it all. I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">have learned that it’s okay if everything isn’t perfect and that </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">life doesn’t always go as planned. After a full day of writing, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">errands, chores and family time I’m thankful for the time I </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">have to write and bring my ideas to life…as long as there are </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">no good TV shows on of course☺</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></span></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cI5eNJ9yKQnRZZWsZBUr7X54fCjgRi95k8nGBoULGHnLs3G3-xchQ-DJY5wQFX4GnUBvymUNJJyKiPJ_qVqMEVFF0OhdtOTNJHvSCxZW3C5fX3Cgt3wbT1uVw1bdotKoR0EgH7-6f2M_/s600/On+The+Road+-+Author.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cI5eNJ9yKQnRZZWsZBUr7X54fCjgRi95k8nGBoULGHnLs3G3-xchQ-DJY5wQFX4GnUBvymUNJJyKiPJ_qVqMEVFF0OhdtOTNJHvSCxZW3C5fX3Cgt3wbT1uVw1bdotKoR0EgH7-6f2M_/s320/On+The+Road+-+Author.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Melissa Baldwin is a planner-obsessed Disney fan who still </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">watches Beverly Hills 90210 reruns and General Hospital. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e0ed37d8-7fff-f578-07ba-f98394d751dc" style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She’s a wife, mother, and journal keeper, who finally decided to write the book she talked about for years. She took her dream to the next level, and is now an award-winning, bestselling author of seventeen Romantic Comedy and Cozy Mystery novels and novellas. Melissa writes about charming, ambitious, and real women, and she considers these leading ladies to be part of her tribe.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When she isn't deep in the writing zone, this multitasking master organizer keeps busy by spending time with her family, chauffeuring her daughter, traveling, attempting yoga poses, and going on rides at Disney World.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – Amazon: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Baldwin/e/B012M1S100/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Baldwin/e/B012M1S100/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook:</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/authormelissabaldwin/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.facebook.com/authormelissabaldwin/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mpbaldwinauthor" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://twitter.com/mpbaldwinauthor</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instagram: </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mbaldwinauthor/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.instagram.com/mbaldwinauthor/</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-c774f1b5-7fff-a6d8-fbfa-9ad5c19a91cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giveaway to Win a </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">$20 Amazon Gift Card (Open INT)</span></p><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Terms and Conditions</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> –Worldwide entries welcome. 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But appearances can be deceptive…</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><i>Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbours are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem…</i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">My Thoughts:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Therapist</i></b> is one of my favourite books of this year.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">It's creepy and unnerving in parts, the writing is compelling, and I really didn't know who to trust, who to believe.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The girl who used to live in Alice's house was called Nina and Alice becomes obsessed with her as her own sister was also called Nina.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Some of the situations Alice's finds herself were a little bit scary as I was reading it on my own at night, and I wondered if Alice's mind was playing tricks on her. This was typical of the way the story was written, it kept me questioning everything and everyone.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">The pacing was perfect, the characters were believable, there were secrets and lies, it was tense and twisty, and the overall story kept me glued to the pages.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Definitely one to recommend!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Thanks to Harper Collins for giving me the opportunity to read this book.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Available to buy now from ~ <a href="https://amzn.to/3alq4R0">Amazon UK</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">Check out all the other bloggers on the tour</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR-U1OaeLEigBPlLXcVssegrq2QS1joUWcYJmnA3WZr3jsuRiWngDssJ7clgsvosdNx0Hm7wOoQiGSTv_h-jESyCSxMZyrnuWIYYJsYYQ2ur7dSruepmzEww-KHwqTf9Mg7AjEvzDUEFmZ/s3840/Therapist%2528The%2529_BTB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="819" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR-U1OaeLEigBPlLXcVssegrq2QS1joUWcYJmnA3WZr3jsuRiWngDssJ7clgsvosdNx0Hm7wOoQiGSTv_h-jESyCSxMZyrnuWIYYJsYYQ2ur7dSruepmzEww-KHwqTf9Mg7AjEvzDUEFmZ/w136-h640/Therapist%2528The%2529_BTB.jpg" width="136" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><p><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-33866917400762444232021-03-29T05:00:00.001+01:002021-03-29T15:02:22.367+01:00The Ticklemore Tattler by Liz Davies - Book Blog Tour Promo <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">I'm thrilled to be part of the Blog Tour for </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">The Ticklemore Tattler </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">by </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Liz Davies</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmLdVzgR0qcPseiSrw3If-4rIeZ_99Nav7Vfk78tq-uZfkSmqYUwRD6NVsFn8c-dm7g2hdZXB1EiTspGg0sQbJWTQA85fByfUu2hHXq8UTED_D6rIXNnJEgZS650TRFGQNr0i12cd-FZQ/s2048/Ticklemore+ecover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1283" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEmLdVzgR0qcPseiSrw3If-4rIeZ_99Nav7Vfk78tq-uZfkSmqYUwRD6NVsFn8c-dm7g2hdZXB1EiTspGg0sQbJWTQA85fByfUu2hHXq8UTED_D6rIXNnJEgZS650TRFGQNr0i12cd-FZQ/w400-h640/Ticklemore+ecover.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Sometimes you have to write your own future…</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-47d4600b-7fff-d024-b3b4-33a3f06fbeb4" style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The life of former journalist Juliette Seymour has been quiet and unassuming. Up until now, she’s been concentrating on running the local newspaper and raising her daughter. </i></span></p><i><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></i><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>But all that is about to change when Juliette is informed that the Ticklemore Tattler is to fold and that she’ll be out of a job. She begins to wonder whether she can buy the newspaper and try to make a go of it herself.</i></span></p><i><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></i><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Aware that she needs some advice she contacts Oliver Pascoe, little knowing that when her old colleague re-enters her life, his help isn’t the only thing she wants him for!</i></span></p><i><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></i><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>As she begins to fall in love, however, what she doesn’t realise is that Oliver has something he’s keeping from her.</i></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A gorgeously uplifting story, perfect for fans of Holly Hepburn, Heidi Swain, and Isabelle Broom.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Link - </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://mybook.to/TicklemoreTattler" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mybook.to/TicklemoreTattler</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRXDbNRLjX-frHlh7MuZftqK3z1aVqrs6nJAtEdUyGACCzOfh1TDdN9ux1XjprHSAYVQ9Wd1tet50VPbXskHbH56KmturGIh8DHb-cOi5KwhJ4TIHqzZfqd-zFKsuf2naw1rk8Kp1ZjUo/s700/The+Ticklemore+Tattler.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRXDbNRLjX-frHlh7MuZftqK3z1aVqrs6nJAtEdUyGACCzOfh1TDdN9ux1XjprHSAYVQ9Wd1tet50VPbXskHbH56KmturGIh8DHb-cOi5KwhJ4TIHqzZfqd-zFKsuf2naw1rk8Kp1ZjUo/w400-h158/The+Ticklemore+Tattler.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: x-large;">Meet the Author</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;">Liz Davies writes feel-good, light-hearted stories with a hefty dose of romance, a smattering of humour, and a great deal of love.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;">She’s married to her best friend, has one grown-up daughter, and when she isn’t scribbling away in the notepad she carries with her everywhere (just in case inspiration strikes), you’ll find her searching for that perfect pair of shoes. She loves to cook but isn’t very good at it, and loves to eat - she’s much better at that! Liz also enjoys walking (preferably on the flat), cycling (also on the flat), and lots of sitting around in the garden on warm, sunny days.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;">She currently lives with her family in Wales, but would ideally love to buy a camper van and travel the world in it. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil7-PWxTKhIAyH5fcKiLJDq2NwR2YeSXzhKgPdTFlM6jpWblFnZIrqfExWCI-ux_C87I6ycffrxnkaMrhTQzCwbvh6owOhNTMpnLmX_Xaomz1ITSO8-aT0-OqNez_EBBTfvr4wZk-4jRTZ/s1354/Liz+Davies+Author+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">I am thrilled to be a part of the Blog Tour for <i><b>Old Cases New Colours</b></i> by Madalyn Morgan and I have an exclusive extract from the book</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIWOzfGKl4k9vXTL-ww4cYoKcQtwkvwJjPSWHLWYGYcudtAjXJ-DO8t0kGPKkqXvSex14JVUSrZErRCdabO_dSZOhJLABrJoclBgeQKjrgX-KCRkMztWUfjwPkPtyKy_LI3sMlBXxCIOQ_/s2048/OCNC-EBOOK-Cvr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIWOzfGKl4k9vXTL-ww4cYoKcQtwkvwJjPSWHLWYGYcudtAjXJ-DO8t0kGPKkqXvSex14JVUSrZErRCdabO_dSZOhJLABrJoclBgeQKjrgX-KCRkMztWUfjwPkPtyKy_LI3sMlBXxCIOQ_/w400-h640/OCNC-EBOOK-Cvr.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Old Cases, New Colours (A Dudley Green Investigation)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sick of working in a world of spies and bureaucracy, Ena Green, nee Dudley, leaves the Home Office and starts her own investigating agency.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working for herself she can choose which investigations to take and, more importantly, which to turn down.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While working on two investigations, Ena is called as a prosecution witness in the Old Bailey trial of a cold-blooded killer who she exposed as a spy the year before.</span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><b>Purchase Links</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cases-Colours-Dudley-Investigation-Sisters-ebook/dp/B08Y9887QM/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cases-Colours-Dudley-Investigation-Sisters-ebook/dp/B08Y9887QM/</span></a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-bc5f9b1a-7fff-9204-a56b-f29eea725d54"></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cases-Colours-Dudley-Investigation-Sisters-ebook/dp/B08Y9887QM/" style="text-decoration: none;">https://www.amazon.com/Cases-Colours-Dudley-Investigation-Sisters-ebook/dp/B08Y9887QM/</a></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: large;">An extract from Chapter Twenty-six of Old Cases New Colours</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2984dada-7fff-2eee-120d-cd410ca10693" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">Intro: Mr Derby-Bloom, the father of a friend of Ena’s, dies suddenly while recuperating in a nursing home after a knee operation. Ena’s friend, George, asks Ena to look into her father’s death as he was fit with no underlying health issues and she thinks his death is suspicious. This extract is the second time Ena meets the nurse who looked after Mr Derby-Bloom.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;">‘Thank you for seeing us again, Nurse McKinlay. I was wondering if we might ask you a couple more questions?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Nurse McKinlay smiled. ‘Of course.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Did Mr Derby-Bloom say anything before he died. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> She looked at Ena thoughtfully and then her eyes widened and she took a long slow breath. ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘he did.’ She turned to George, ‘I’m sorry. I was so upset when you were last here, I forgot.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Ena looked at George. ‘Do you remember what it was he said?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> The nurse looked up at the ceiling as if the words were written there. ‘Yes, but I didn’t hear everything he said. He was speaking German.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Are you sure it was German?’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Yes, quite sure.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Try to remember what the words sounded like.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Nurse McKinlay looked thoughtful. She took a shaky breath and said, ‘I didn’t understand him at first because what he said didn’t make any sense.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Could he have been hallucinating?’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ‘No, I’m sure he wasn’t. He reached out and took my hand. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, so I leaned over him and put my ear near his mouth. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard anyone speak German and I didn’t catch the first couple of words, but it sounded like, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sie hat mich getötet. Then, I’m sorry, he’d gone.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> George took a sharp breath, looked at Ena and then at the nurse. ‘Sie hat mich getötet?’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Yes. He spoke quietly, but that was definitely what he said.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘And in English?’ Ena asked. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ‘</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has killed me,’ George said. ‘Who did he think had killed him?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Before the three women had time to discuss the meaning of Mr Derby-Bloom’s last words, the nursing home’s manager, Mrs Sharp, opened the door. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Before you leave, Miss Derby-Bloom, would you pop into the office? She left without waiting for George to reply.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘It’ll be the fee for Dad’s stay here,’ George said, ‘I won’t be long.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> When George had left, Ena gave Nurse McKinlay a card. ‘If you think of anything else, anything at all, however insignificant you think it might be, would you telephone me on this number?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Yes, of course.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘I see from your badge you’re a registered nurse. Jeanie.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘I was with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the war. I began nursing in 1937. I was one of the first recruits to train at the Nurses Preliminary Training School. Not all the hospital matrons approved of the training. Most preferred their nurses to learn on the wards, which I did eventually. It was a good foundation course, though. Two intensive months in the training school and we learned everything from medical and nursing theology to anatomy and physiology. But it isn’t the same practising on life size dummies.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘No. It must have been very different when you began working with real patients?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘It was. I spent two years on the wards and when war was declared I joined up and became a FANY.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘And, do you mind me asking where you learned to speak German?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Not at all. My first overseas assignment as a FANY was just after the Russian invasion of Finland in November 1939. I was one of forty FANY drivers in a convoy of ten ambulances that went to Norway. We arrived after the fighting in February 1940 but stayed on to help evacuate the hospitals and the refugees from Karelia.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Finland would be cold at that time of year,’ Ena said.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘February is the coldest month of the year. It was between minus five and minus ten most nights, but we were too busy to think about it. It was in Finland that I learned to speak German. I worked with an Austrian doctor who had spent ten years as a surgeon in Germany. He was fluent in German and English - and the languages of the countries that border Finland - Russian, Norwegian and Swedish. When I got back to England, a friend who had returned from Scotland as a driver with the Polish fighting units told me about an organisation that trained people with languages as wireless operators. She went off to work in a grand old manor house in Banbury, and because I understood German I was sent to the east coast to listen to conversations between Luftwaffe pilots and the top brass giving the orders.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Ena had been an engineer making small discs and dials for coding and deciphering machines at Bletchley Park and Henry, already at Bletchley Park, worked on top-secret codes, so Ena knew how important jobs like the one nurse McKinlay did were. ‘An interesting job,’ she said. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘We coordinated what the wireless operators sent back with what we heard the pilots say, and the girls in the map room were able to plot their route within a mile, sometimes less.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘I remember my husband telling me that the RAF was often given information that enabled them to stop the Luftwaffe over the Channel?’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ‘They were.’ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘It must be gratifying to know that the work you did, stopping bombs from being dropped on factories and homes, saved lives.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘I suppose it was. I didn’t think about it at the time. None of the girls did. We just got on with it. I had learned Morse Code and hoped that with my knowledge of German, I’d be sent overseas to work as a wireless operator, but it didn’t happen.’</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> ‘Your contribution to the war effort was of huge importance,’ Ena said. ‘I’m sure many operations were foiled because the RAF had information in advance of German air strikes.’ </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Nurse McKinlay smiled.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"> Ena liked her. She was easy to talk to. Now, Ena thought, would be a good time to ask her about the staff and the other residents in the nursing home. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6H3SLDor5tsJ-_nD21asYjiJ_kjYb0fo1QH0G7aml43ugcbN00yjufFQnbrxH-me5YTMaeZ6Qnzkcc2Ayh9I_D_QJy69f4K4nLCAjVQs8lQHB4XzGGWOqxI5nAbU_-O-tJKcLrgHYaU5/s700/Old+Cases+New+Colours.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6H3SLDor5tsJ-_nD21asYjiJ_kjYb0fo1QH0G7aml43ugcbN00yjufFQnbrxH-me5YTMaeZ6Qnzkcc2Ayh9I_D_QJy69f4K4nLCAjVQs8lQHB4XzGGWOqxI5nAbU_-O-tJKcLrgHYaU5/w400-h158/Old+Cases+New+Colours.png" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Meet the Author</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikbNAedryNCbmVmPIEBuMg_AMyqICEfGocla4d3s9k7IJzYmwTQfv4lRwoWxrSvPBuXe7GL0zxmRtqY83tP0LSCunb7hU8JDonQOryPMuKy9ilq9UlT3Z2S4XieofIwomDK6ovZGABXl33/s1359/Old+Cases+Facebook+profile+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="1359" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikbNAedryNCbmVmPIEBuMg_AMyqICEfGocla4d3s9k7IJzYmwTQfv4lRwoWxrSvPBuXe7GL0zxmRtqY83tP0LSCunb7hU8JDonQOryPMuKy9ilq9UlT3Z2S4XieofIwomDK6ovZGABXl33/s320/Old+Cases+Facebook+profile+photo.jpg" /></span></a></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5b4d411-7fff-4a3c-3118-d26e7ad816f0"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was brought up in a pub in a small market town called Lutterworth. For as long as I can remember, my dream was to be an actress and a writer. The pub was a great place for an aspiring actress and writer to live with so many characters to study and accents to learn. I was offered Crossroads the first time around. However, my mother wanted me to have a ‘proper’ job that I could fall back on if I needed to, so I did a hairdressing apprenticeship. Eight years later, aged twenty-four, I gave up a successful salon and wig-hire business in the theatre for a place at East 15 Drama College and a career as an actress, working in Repertory theatre, the West End, film and television.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In 1995, with fewer parts for older actresses, I gave up acting. I taught myself to touch-type, completed a two-year correspondence course with The Writer’s Bureau and began writing articles and presenting radio.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In 2010, after living in London for thirty-six years, I moved back to Lutterworth. I swapped two window boxes and a mortgage for a garden and the freedom to write. Since then, I have written nine novels. The first four, The Dudley Sisters’ Saga, tell the stories of four sisters in World War 2. My current novel, Old Cases, New Colours, is a thriller/detective story set in 1960. I am writing Christmas book - Christmas Applause - and a Memoir; a collection of short stories, articles, poems, photographs and character breakdowns from my days as an actress.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Madalyn Morgan’s books- </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madalyn-Morgan/e/B00J7VO9I2" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Carole's Book Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16738194618373375834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3333990106865942991.post-5466059794142033662021-03-22T05:00:00.001+00:002021-03-22T05:00:07.180+00:00You Let Me Go by Eliza Graham - Blog Tour - Mini Book Review + Giveaway<p><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Fira Sans";">'m delighted to share my review and be a part of the Blog Tour for <i><b>You Let Me Go</b></i> by Eliza Graham and there's a chance to win one of three paperback copies</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimBf3qislqGREPJgvfBN-Y0TyzHKKbZU720zA5qLvUEwRhk6CdkV30DVrNm-dfDa4Xx-T3sESHM_Wp3JNd1wK3diVRjPDCsHKXF32B5pz90-RgnJX3pUFJw00blS-EIW0eb0s8C_HFZvyV/s2048/You+Let+me+Go+-+GRAHAM_YOULETMEGO_28121_FT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1334" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimBf3qislqGREPJgvfBN-Y0TyzHKKbZU720zA5qLvUEwRhk6CdkV30DVrNm-dfDa4Xx-T3sESHM_Wp3JNd1wK3diVRjPDCsHKXF32B5pz90-RgnJX3pUFJw00blS-EIW0eb0s8C_HFZvyV/w416-h640/You+Let+me+Go+-+GRAHAM_YOULETMEGO_28121_FT.jpg" width="416" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Fira Sans; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-7091afd5-7fff-a6c8-74f2-844c5f46114f" style="font-family: Fira Sans;"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>After her beloved grandmother Rozenn’s death, Morane is heartbroken to learn that her sister is the sole inheritor of the family home in Cornwall—while she herself has been written out of the will. With both her business and her relationship with her sister on the rocks, Morane becomes consumed by one question: what made Rozenn turn her back on her?</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>When she finds an old letter linking her grandmother to Brittany under German occupation, Morane escapes on the trail of her family’s past. In the coastal village where Rozenn lived in 1941, she uncovers a web of shameful secrets that haunted Rozenn to the end of her days. Was it to protect those she loved that a desperate Rozenn made a heartbreaking decision and changed the course of all their lives forever?</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Morane goes in search of the truth but the truth can be painful. Can she make her peace with the past and repair her relationship with her sister?</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purchase Links </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK – </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Let-Me-Eliza-Graham-ebook/dp/B08HN92DLQ/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Let-Me-Eliza-Graham-ebook/dp/B08HN92DLQ/</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Let-Me-Eliza-Graham/dp/1542017106" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.amazon.com/You-Let-Me-Eliza-Graham/dp/1542017106</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My thoughts</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have read several books by Eliza Graham and I think that <i><b>You Let Me Go</b></i> is one of her best.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I loved the dual timeline narrative, in present time by Morane and in 1941 by Rozenn, they both gave me a real sense of how they were both struggling in life - Morane with her money and business problems and Rozenn with her family problems and the fear of living under Nazi occupation in a small French village.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could totally understand Morane's need to find out about her grandmother's decision to leave the cottage she loved to her sister and not her. I was willing her to discover more about her grandmother's past.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The writing is slow and steady going, gradually building up to the truth of what really happened and the suspense was a real page turner.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A great read that I thoroughly enjoyed.</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meet the Author</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMIw0Fqv4AXdUgz5S0-w3XZpbDxk-TgIQ7d66LRWCRraLq6vMCsNWTeONEEAqqvmHK3tzjzoiYw8_zTN3yoAfSuLzslvESXKKpUcV8mbZv8dQkdeIPAfSWRvrFJENmYGf32KjnZ_J70UK6/s1779/You+Let+Me+Go+-+AUthor+photo+Eliza+Graham.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1779" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMIw0Fqv4AXdUgz5S0-w3XZpbDxk-TgIQ7d66LRWCRraLq6vMCsNWTeONEEAqqvmHK3tzjzoiYw8_zTN3yoAfSuLzslvESXKKpUcV8mbZv8dQkdeIPAfSWRvrFJENmYGf32KjnZ_J70UK6/s320/You+Let+Me+Go+-+AUthor+photo+Eliza+Graham.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4457319d-7fff-82dc-dda0-88ea9adda4f9"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eliza Graham's novels have been long-listed for the UK's Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in the UK, and short-listed for World Book Day's 'Hidden Gem' competition. She has also been nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her books have been bestsellers both in Europe and the US.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is fascinated by the world of the 1930s and 1940s: the Second World War and its immediate aftermath and the trickle-down effect on future generations. Consequently she's made trips to visit bunkers in Brittany, decoy harbours in Cornwall, wartime radio studios in Bedfordshire and cemeteries in Szczecin, Poland. And those are the less obscure research trips.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was probably inevitable that Eliza would pursue a life of writing. She spent biology lessons reading Jean Plaidy novels behind the textbooks, sitting at the back of the classroom. In English and history lessons she sat right at the front, hanging on to every word. At home she read books while getting dressed and cleaning her teeth. During school holidays she visited the public library multiple times a day.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eliza lives in an ancient village in the Oxfordshire countryside with her family. Not far from her house there is a large perforated sarsen stone that can apparently summon King Alfred if you blow into it correctly. Eliza has never managed to summon him. Her interests still mainly revolve around reading, but she also enjoys walking in the downland country around her home and travelling around the world to research her novels.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media Links – </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website </span><a href="http://www.elizagrahamauthor.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.elizagrahamauthor.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #0563c1; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ElizaGrahamUK" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ElizaGrahamUK</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OszldPtDFqg9HcdYpEMDSUbyg4bgz-WsHCw8yF4YREQopS0fXRJctcvb8_v6BPlV_4IQVAV-yNcUdzGYV7GEs6pR5SY9H__J2DSFKvmtk4aC65sqR6zIoeG-O3p5E8vOjUy1BS5WHTma/s700/You+Let+Me+Go.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="700" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4OszldPtDFqg9HcdYpEMDSUbyg4bgz-WsHCw8yF4YREQopS0fXRJctcvb8_v6BPlV_4IQVAV-yNcUdzGYV7GEs6pR5SY9H__J2DSFKvmtk4aC65sqR6zIoeG-O3p5E8vOjUy1BS5WHTma/w640-h252/You+Let+Me+Go.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-eccf2371-7fff-86f3-2ed3-81587db84c9e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giveaway to Win 3 x Paperback copies of You Let Me Go by Eliza Graham (Open to UK / USA only)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Terms and Conditions</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> –UK and USA entries welcome. 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