Today
12 January 2015
I will be featuring at
1pm - 2pm.
Do visit the Facebook page for a chance
to win some of my ebooks.
Monday, 12 January 2015
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Saturday, 15 November 2014
Win a paperback copy of Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion
Giveaway Now Closed.
Russ was the Winner!
Win a paperback copy of
Russ was the Winner!
Win a paperback copy of
Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion
Starts 15th November 2014
Good Luck!
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Memories of WW1
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| Bette Masterman aged 17 |
My mother's memories of the First World War as a tiny child:
One day I was taken into Newcastle to see the soldiers marching down Grainger Street to the Central Station on their way to France. I was held up on somebody’s shoulder so that I could see over the people in front.
Crowds lined the street, the soldiers marched past, then a deep moan went through the crowd as the girls came into view.
They were the nurses also on their way to France. I can remember hearing somebody saying, “The bits o’ lasses are ganning as well,” and the tears rolling down people’s cheeks.
From the Autobiography of Bette Masterman Emmett born 12 April 1913
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Wilful Words: The Long and the Short
Being lazy today and reblogging this blog about Awesome Allshorts from awesome indie authors.
Wilful Words: The Long and the Short: It's an exciting time right now. In addition to the launch of my latest novel Still Death , I have a short story that's been accepte...
Wilful Words: The Long and the Short: It's an exciting time right now. In addition to the launch of my latest novel Still Death , I have a short story that's been accepte...
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
A Crime Novel with a Difference - Frances di Plino on her latest Paolo Storey novel
Frances di Plino talks about victims' gender in crime novels and why she has chosen to break the mould. Her latest Paolo Storey novel sounds like a corker and is one I will certainly be reading very soon.
A Crime Novel with a
Difference
by Frances di Plino
by Frances di Plino
There has been a lot
published recently on the prevalence of violence against women in
crime novels. It does seem that the culture of women as victims helps
to sell books. I’m not sure why that should be, but I have been
guilty of writing a couple of such novels myself.
Certainly, in the first two of my D.I. Paolo Storey series, BAD MOON RISING and SOMEDAY NEVER COMES, females are the victims and men control their lives.
However, in book three,
CALL IT PRETENDING, the killer
had a motive for picking his targets and gender didn’t have a part
to play.
In the latest, LOOKING
FOR A REASON, which is out today, the notion of female victims
has been turned on its head. The targets are all male – and with
good reason.
Someone is subjecting
men to systematic rape and torture, but who? More to the point - why?
After three days of cruelty, starvation and water deprivation, they
are released. Detective Inspector Paolo Storey has many questions,
but the biggest one of all is this: why, to a man, do they refuse
even to admit they were held captive?
As if the hunt for the elusive abductor wasn't enough, Paolo has to spend time finding out if money has been pilfered from public funds poured into a new youth centre.
After three days of cruelty, starvation and water deprivation, they
are released. Detective Inspector Paolo Storey has many questions,
but the biggest one of all is this: why, to a man, do they refuse
even to admit they were held captive? As if the hunt for the elusive abductor wasn't enough, Paolo has to spend time finding out if money has been pilfered from public funds poured into a new youth centre.
He upsets a few local
bigwigs in the process, but ruffling feathers is the least of his
worries. His most important task is to work out why the attacks take
place.
If he can do that, he'll be a step closer to knowing who is behind them; but can he uncover the answers in time to save someone close to him? It isn't easy Looking for a Reason.
If he can do that, he'll be a step closer to knowing who is behind them; but can he uncover the answers in time to save someone close to him? It isn't easy Looking for a Reason.
Frances di Plino
is the pen name of Lorraine Mace, children’s author, humour
columnist for Writing Magazine and a competition judge for Writers’
Forum. She is a former tutor for the Writers Bureau, and now runs a
private critique and mentoring service for writers.
Writing as Frances di
Plino, she is the author of the crime/thriller series featuring D.I.
Paolo Storey: Bad Moon Rising,
Someday Never Comes, Call It Pretending and Looking for a Reason
Awesome Indies New Website
Today Awesome Indies Coordinator Tahlia Newland explains what is happening with the Awesome Indies website:
The Awesome Indies is getting a brand new website. Tahlia Newland (coordinator), Ruthanne Reid (designer), and a team of volunteers have been working hard this past month to get ready for the opening on the 1st of November.
The new look site will be set up as a shop with purchase buttons linking to all the major ebook sales outlets as well as the Book Depository (free shipping worldwide) for those who like paperbacks. Our Amazon and iTunes links will be global links that will automatically send customers to their local store – no more ending up in the wrong store.
And those with reading devices that take epub files will find plenty of books for their devices on the new site. Books to suit your taste will be easy to find by searching categories and tags. And books can be listed in more than one category, making it easy to see exactly what mix of genres you’ll find inside. This is particularly important for our books because most of them cross genres.
Books will have their own product page with a great deal more information about them than on the present site, so you won’t have to leave the site to find the information you need to make your decision. Reduced books will appear on a sale page and in a featured spot on the front page, making the bargains easy to find, and a streamlined menu will make negotiating the site a lot easier.
This new focus on selling the books is because these are the books from the independent publishing industry that readers should be buying. These are the books that will not disappoint with poor editing and under developed story lines. And if you’re looking for something different, the Awesome Indies is the place to find it.
And, to mark the opening of the new site, we’re having a sale. Over 50 books priced at less than $3, many of which are rarely discounted, will be on sale for November 1st and 2nd.
We’re also giving away a Kindle Paperwhite ereader to the lucky winner. The giveaway closes at the end of the weekend. Visit Awesome Indies Books next weekend to see the new site, show your support and pick up a bargain.
Thanks, Tahlia.
My novels Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion and The Land Beyond Goodbye will both be on sale as part of the Awesome Indies promotion.
The animated giff really says it all, but I'll write it a little more conversationally and give you some background:
The new look site will be set up as a shop with purchase buttons linking to all the major ebook sales outlets as well as the Book Depository (free shipping worldwide) for those who like paperbacks. Our Amazon and iTunes links will be global links that will automatically send customers to their local store – no more ending up in the wrong store.
And those with reading devices that take epub files will find plenty of books for their devices on the new site. Books to suit your taste will be easy to find by searching categories and tags. And books can be listed in more than one category, making it easy to see exactly what mix of genres you’ll find inside. This is particularly important for our books because most of them cross genres.
Books will have their own product page with a great deal more information about them than on the present site, so you won’t have to leave the site to find the information you need to make your decision. Reduced books will appear on a sale page and in a featured spot on the front page, making the bargains easy to find, and a streamlined menu will make negotiating the site a lot easier.
This new focus on selling the books is because these are the books from the independent publishing industry that readers should be buying. These are the books that will not disappoint with poor editing and under developed story lines. And if you’re looking for something different, the Awesome Indies is the place to find it.
And, to mark the opening of the new site, we’re having a sale. Over 50 books priced at less than $3, many of which are rarely discounted, will be on sale for November 1st and 2nd.
We’re also giving away a Kindle Paperwhite ereader to the lucky winner. The giveaway closes at the end of the weekend. Visit Awesome Indies Books next weekend to see the new site, show your support and pick up a bargain.
Thanks, Tahlia.
My novels Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion and The Land Beyond Goodbye will both be on sale as part of the Awesome Indies promotion.
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
France Book Tours
Charleville and Rimbaud – the uneasy relationship
of a town and its most famous son
by
Barbara Scott Emmett
Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born on 20th October 1854 in a flat above a bookshop in the Rue Napoléon, Charleville. Now called Charleville-Mézières, the poet’s birthplace is a provincial town in northern France and is the setting for my novel Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion.
The novel’s protagonist, Andrea, visits Rimbaud’s old haunts and sits, as she says ‘in the exact space Rimbaud once sat in, the molecules of my body mingling with the memory of his.’
Read more at France Book Tours.
Read Emma's insightful review of Delirium here.
Thanks to Emma for hosting this blog hop. It's much appreciated.
Find out more about Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion
on the dedicated page on this blog.
Purchase Links for Delirium: The Rimbaud Delusion
Easy tweet:
Find out more about flamboyant poet #Rimbaud - the first punk. http://barbarascottemmett.blogspot.co.uk/p/delirium-anovel-by-barbara-scott-emmett.html @BSE_Writer
The winners of the blog hop giveaway have now been chosen. Congratulations to Denise and Rhonda - I hope you enjoy Delirium.
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