Christmas is all about coming home and Nicola May’s Christmas in Cockleberry Bay has certainly made me feel like I am back in my romcom home. This book brought a smile to my face while my family wrestled with a stubborn Christmas tree and a box full of tangled tree lights. Ignoring my family’s tree […]
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OMG – Christmas has come early for all us Cockleberry Bay fans! Bless Nicola May for knowing what we all wanted for Christmas – another fabulous romcome from Cockleberry Bay with a Christmas spin on it! Here’s the cover: Christmas in Cockleberry Bay Meet old and new characters in the Bay for Christmas fun and […]
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The idea for this blog post came to me whilst cleaning my bathroom. I’d just finished Bettina Hunt’s fabulous romantic comedy; ‘A Tempting Trio‘ and all I could think about (with my head bent over the bath and scrubbing like mad) was who I’d want to see cast in the leading male roles if Bettina’s […]
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I love this question – how’s your book coming along? My reaction to this simple question can change daily, sometimes hourly. Here are 10 different writer reactions to that question. They are a mixture of some of the reactions I have overheard during my time as a writer and my own. I will let you […]
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I read this book and wished I had Polly, the main character’s new job. I found myself feeling envious of Polly working at To The Moon & Back dating agency in New York. I don’t normally get career envy when reading about the lives of fictional people but I did with Polly. This book was […]
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I was planning to leave this review until nearer Christmas but I am desperate to shout about this book and the fact this was my first experience of reading a Rachel Dove novel. As a Yorkshire lass myself and someone who spent MANY a family holiday in Bridlington during her youth, you can imagine my reading […]
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It is not easy waiting for your favourite author to bring out their next book. After binge reading all their books, fangirling them by email and social media, all you can do is sit and wait for their next offering. This agonising waiting period will involve some serious finger drumming, a lot of social media […]
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I am writing this review of How To Make Time For Me and feeling like Callie, the main character, from this fabulous book. Upstairs I can hear the din of an epic teenage row, I am exhausted and my dog is looking rather pained; like the dog, Bodger, in the book, my dog’s expressions are […]
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Welcome to my virtual blog party! After 3 years and 6 months of blood, sweat, tears, endless cups of coffee, 12 drafts, 5 rewrites, many hours spent at the kitchen table, countless time spent gazing out of the window daydreaming, loads of sweaty author nightmares, millions of texts and emails to writers friends, a mind […]
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This time next week you will be attending my book launch blog party right here on BlondeWriteMore. Please mark the date – Sunday 30 June in your hectic online calendars. This time next week my book – Instructions For Falling In Love Again will be ready to be devoured by hungry bookworms and I will […]
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