COVER REVEAL! - Forever Fredless by Suzy Turner

I'm proud to be part of author Suzy Turner's exciting cover reveal for her new chick lit novel. And here it is . . .

Forever Fredless by Suzy Turner

 

Kate Robinson has spent the past two decades yearning to find her soul mate, the boy she found and then lost during a family holiday. Shortly after her twenty-eighth birthday, however, she inherits a fortune from an old family friend and becomes something of an overnight celebrity. Can her new-found fame lead her to him after all this time?

 

Forever Fredless will be available from online bookstores from October 2013

 

To discover more about Suzy and her books visit:

http://suzyturner.com

http://suzyturner.blogspot.com

http://facebook.com/suzyturnerbooks

http://twitter.com/@suzy_turner

http://pinterest.com/suzyturnerbooks

 

Young Adult Paranormal Adventure on Sale

HIDDEN

(Marchwood Vampire Series #1)

on sale this week

In this spellbinding novel, two teenagers living a century apart discover dangerous secrets that draw them into the past — and toward their destruction. The legend of the vampire has never been so gripping…

SALE PRICE: $0.99

Usual Price: $3.99

 Disc: 75% off 

Sale ends July 5th 2013 

  

AMAZON US   AMAZON UK   

BARNES & NOBLE 

IBOOKS   SMASHWORDS
 

BCS Short Story Competition

This week, I was lucky enough to read 24 short stories by the Years 7 and 8 pupils of BCS. I had been asked to judge them and award a first prize to the best, but I had no idea how hard it would be to choose. The standard was incredible and the genres were wide-ranging.

 

Anyway, I finally whittled it down to 8 Highly Commended entries from:

Dominic Farrow, Thomas Bourne, Poppaea Bramwell-Reeks, Daisy Stallard, Oliver Lande, Charlie Bates, Tomas Seville and James Downey.

 

My winner was Dani Poll with her perfectly formed short story Beacon of Hope about a homeless girl. It was beautifully written. Congratulations, Dani!

 

 

 

Read more here

 



Writing in a Digital Age - Guest Post from Laxmi Hariharan

It's The Literary Consultancy's conference next month,

so here's a timely guest post from indie author Laxmi Hariharan:

 

 

When Indie Met the Establishment!

Cut to twelve months ago—as a just born Indie, I listened to Kate Mosse (author Labyrinth) talk about how she was not on Facebook, Twitter or any of those necessary evils, which help Indie authors like myself build a platform. On a panel discussion she made it very clear that she preferred not to have her peace of mind destroyed by social media chatter, in order to really focus inwards and write. A fellow author confessed how she was beyond the point of being a social media junkie—she stayed connected even when she took her dog for a walk. It was clear to me that as a writer and a marketer I needed to find the sweet spot somewhere between the two. I needed to become a spider—a black widow?— an arachnid who sat square in the entre of a 720 degree social network web, and controlled everything that went around me, not the other way around.

It was about choice. I absolutely had the right to decide when I wanted to dip in and went I wanted to unplug. Isn’t that being an Indie author was all about.

Exercising your right to be read, to be seen and heard unadulterated by veils. Just one of the many insights I gained from attending the writing in a digital age conference, held by TLC. I will be back at the 2013 instalment of the same, as part of the storytime sessions, talking about where I am twelve months on—wiser, more confident, and in the throes of completing Return to 7 Islands (#2, Bombay Chronicles.) If you are wondering whether to go Indie or if you are Indie and pondering what next, then this is where you want to be. You will get the chance to meet fellow Indie’s as well as published authors, publishers, and agents too (some of them are really nice too J I promise.)

Writing in a Digital Age, June 7-8, London. Tickets on sale till June 6^th.  Laxmi Hariharan is a content branding strategist and award winning author of epic fantasy. Find her at LAXMI writes

New Sci Fi Dystopian Released Today

So episode 1 of the hubby's new book is out on Amazon today . . .

THE SPIRAL ARM (Episode 1, Season 1)
Wren Harper lives on an overcrowded Earth on the brink of apocalypse. There are just too many people. The answer lies 600 light-years away on Kepler; a planet more than double the size of Earth. For decades humans have been fighting another race for its control. Earth’s armies are depleted, so now 15-year-old cadets are sent to fight, trained along the way in vast combat ships. But why has Wren been chosen? She's small and geeky and not a fighter. Will she survive Kepler? Or will the training kill her first?

The Spiral Arm on Kindle US
The Spiral Arm on Kindle UK

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YA Dystopian Sci-Fi Series - The Spiral Arm

I'm extremely excited and proud to announce a special cover reveal for a brand new YA dystopian sci-fi series called The Spiral Arm. And the reason I'm so excited is because it was written by Peter Boland my gorgeous and lovely husband!

Now I know I'm biased, but the story is A-Maz-Ing. Written in novella-length episodes, each one ends with a cliffhanger, kind of like your favourite TV series. Think Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones etc. Each mini season has three episodes and the first episode will be out this month.

Can't freaking wait!!

So here's the oh-so-stunning cover and book description:

Wren Harper lives on an overcrowded Earth on the brink of apocalypse. There are just too many people. The answer lies 600 light-years away on Kepler; a planet more than double the size of Earth. For decades humans have been fighting another race for its control. Earth’s armies are depleted. So now 15-year-old cadets are sent to fight, trained along the way in vast combat ships. But why has Wren been chosen? She's small and geeky and not a fighter. Will she survive Kepler? Or will the training kill her first?

If you'd like to be the first to know when The Spiral Arm will be released, sign up here:

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And here's Pete's Facebook Page and Blog. He's new to it all so has no likes or followers yet (except me). If the series looks like your sort of thing, hop over to Facebook and say hello.

 

Hope you all love it. If any bloggers/reviewers would like a pre-release review copy, feel free to use the 'contact me' form above.