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Guest Blog by Louise Mercer.

Guest Blog by Louise Mercer.

My working background I’ve worked for the NHS as a data analyst for over twenty-five years. Over the past eighteen months it’s been demanding, pressured and relentless. Working weekends and evenings on eleven-hour days, twelve days on and two days off! It’s been scary, tiring, and stressful, but I’ve had a vice to come down after those long shifts… my writing. After many struggles, I became a mummy to our now 13 year old son, Thomas back in 2007. I felt like I’d been given the moon and stars to hold. Of course, sleepless nights and teething soon took the…

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Guest Blog by Lisa Sniderman.

Guest Blog by Lisa Sniderman.

An Interview shared by Lisa So, tell me a little about yourself. Writer? Editor? Life etc I’m Lisa Sniderman, aka Aoede, an award-winning, quirky, folk-pop artist, playwright, teaching artist, author, filmmaker from San Francisco, and have been battling a rare chronic illness for nearly 12 years while obsessively creating to heal. I create and record unique, original full-length fantasy musicals on audiobooks that I adapt to musical theater stage plays. I’ve been honored with more than 85 awards for my songwriting, audiobooks, films, stage plays and books since 2012 all while suffering from a rare autoimmune disease: dermatomyositis, a progressive…

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How to Write Humour

How to Write Humour

Well, that’s obvious, isn’t it, you might say. Write something funny. But is it that easy? Think about it. How many programmes on TV have some people rolling about in hysterics, and leave others cold? Do you see what I mean? Humour is a personal thing, and the hardest part about writing it is that if you try too hard, it falls flat. If that happens too often in your book, then the reader will give up. That is something you seriously do not want to happen. So, how to write humour. It isn’t as easy as it sounds, is…

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Wordsearch

We have wordsearch puzzles based on each of our books free to download from a link on the Freebies page of our website. Check them out here Here is one of them to start you off!

Guest Blog by Jess Flaherty

Guest Blog by Jess Flaherty

Among the Books. Many demons hoard things. Gold, jewels, victims. But they’re not an escape from Hell; they’re a symptom of it. Ben hoarded books. Great toppling stacks of them. When he couldn’t find an excuse to escape to Earth, he’d go to his library and find the only reliable means of escape from torment a human soul has ever known. Ben frequently dreams of Hell. Often he wakes with a damp, salty pillow. Other times he thrashes himself out of bed. More often than he can easily brush aside to the woman he shares a bed with, he’s pulled…

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Guest Blog by Rick Stepp-Bolling

Guest Blog by Rick Stepp-Bolling

Rescue Me I don’t believe that anyone has ever wished for a duller life. Most of us hope that life will dazzle us or at least exceed our expectations, not slow to a crawl in a mundane kind of ennui. Then there’s me. As a kid growing up in rural neighborhoods, our family adopted a variety of pets including dogs, cats, birds, and the occasional lizard. Perhaps our most exotic animal was Baron, our Great Dane, who I would ride like a small horse when I was three. And the day our resident cat had kittens in our garage, we…

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Guest Blog by Ellen Read

Guest Blog by Ellen Read

MRS PRESTON’S KITCHEN BREAKFAST The Thornton Mysteries When writing a book set in the 1920s, the first thing you realise is there is a lot of research to do. The Dragon Sleeps is a murder mystery, the first in The Thornton Mysteries. The family home, Thornton Park, is a lavish mansion. There are servants and a definite upstairs downstairs scenario. Fashions, music and cars aside, I found the need to research food. What would the family eat in 1927? What did the servants eat? Mrs Preston is the cook at Thornton Park. Not a chef, but she’s as meticulous and proud of her…

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Guest Blog by Paula.J.Roscoe

Guest Blog by Paula.J.Roscoe

Reading or Listening By P.J. Roscoe Audio books have been growing in numbers for the last few years at a steady pace, but this last year according to ‘The Guardian’ in the UK, ‘Sales of consumer audiobooks, which have ridden a wave of increasing popularity over the years, surged 42% to £56m in the first half – easily on track to beat the record £97m set last year.’ As an author who has moved into the narrating world, this is good news! When I first began to tentatively learn narration a number of years ago, for one of my books, ‘Freya’s…

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The Greatest Race by Ali Lawati

The Greatest Race by Ali Lawati

“Gul, a young Afghan Tortoise in Yosemite Park, who impulsively accepts a challenge to race from the Cottontail Clan of rabbits. The rabbits, who are distant cousins of the hares, have been twitching for a rematch ever since the legendary race where the tortoise outsmarted the hare. Set in the harsh yet rich landscape of Yosemite, this fun to read adventure story teaches children about collaboration and fostering relationships while raising awareness about illegal poaching.One cold winter day in Yosemite, Baba Meerza, an afghan tortoise elder taken from his home in Margalla National Park in Pakistan along with his Horsfieldii…

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The Trafficking Murders by Brian O’Hare

The Trafficking Murders by Brian O’Hare

Lin Hui and Cheung Mingzhu win scholarships to study at Queen’s University in Belfast. Alina Balauru departs a poor farm in Romania for well paid work in Northern Ireland. Three lives harbouring long-cherished dreams. Three lives headed for tragedy. Sheehan and his Serious Crimes Unit discover the body of one of the young women in the garden of an upmarket residence. Confronted with violent Chinese racketeers, brutal human-traffickers and a fiendishly clever killer called The Shadow, they are baffled by a case that seems to lead in two entirely different directions. Can they find out who The Shadow is in…

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