books
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It’s two weeks until the launch of my first writing craft book, Publication Guaranteed (Well, Almost!). I know many of you have struggled to get your articles and short stories published in magazines and I want to help. I hope you’ll find the book useful in giving you plenty of advice, tips and examples. There…
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I’m excited to announce that Publication Guaranteed (well, almost!) will be launched on the 27th June. It’s available for pre-order now: Amazon UK Amazon US It’ll only be available as an ebook to begin with; a paperback will follow soon. Here’s a reminder of the blurb: Fed up with rejection after rejection? Not sure how…
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Last week, I revealed the blurb for my first book in the A helping Hand for Writers series – Publication Guaranteed (Well, Almost!) Now it’s time to reveal the cover, designed by my very talented daughter, Charlotte Newton: Launch date to be revealed soon…
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When I read Steve Cavanagh’s gripping thriller Thirteen, I was blown away. You’ll find my review here. It’s the fourth book in the Eddie Flynn series and so I was keen to go back and read the others. The Defence is the first in the series. Here’s the blurb: Eddie Flynn used to be a…
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I’d heard many a good thing about Caroline England’s books, but I’d never read one. After meeting her at a recent author meet-up, and talking to her about her books, I knew I simply had to get stuck into one. I started with Betray Her, Caroline’s third psychological thriller. The blurb says: ‘Best friends forever.…
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I’ve read several Lisa Jewell books and I’ve never been disappointed. From the delightful, heart-warming 31 Dream Street, to the more chilling and sinister I Found You, I’ve been instantly hooked. Would Then She was Gone be any different? The blurb says: ‘She was fifteen, her mother’s golden girl.She had her whole life ahead of…
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I met the wonderful Shelley Wilson at The Bloggers Bash in London some years ago. She’s a writing mentor as well as the author of several self-help books and YA fiction. I recently read her YA novel, Hood Academy, described on the cover as ‘a gothic page turner’. And it certainly is! The blurb says:…
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We all have them, don’t we? You know, that author who saves us, who always gives us what we want. So, when you’ve been wading your way through a book you’re really not enjoying and you think why am I doing this to myself? Reading should be a pleasure, that’s when you turn to your…
Esther Chilton 