Historical Thriller | The House of Secrets | Terry Lynn Thomas
I’m delighted to be hosting Terry Lynn Thomas in my hot seat today as part of the tour for The House of Secrets, the second story in the Sarah Bennett Mysteries. Find out Terry’s inspiration , the scene she enjoyed writing the most and more. When Sarah takes a job with occult expert Dr Matthew Geisler, he promises to help her understand the sorrowful spirit that seems to have attached itself to her. As Sarah struggles to cope with the ghostly presence, she runs into Zeke, the man who left her six months earlier and is recovering from injuries suffered in an alleged accident. But Zeke has secrets of his…
Fantasy | The Jumble Sale | Lily Rose
I’m delighted to be hosting Lily Rose in my hot seat on publication day as part of the tour for The Jumble Sale. Lily is chatting to us about the inspiration for her story, her characters and much more. The Jumble Sale sounds fab for readers aged 10 – 12. Enjoy! Zadi is part zombie, part fairy with a little bit of robot, which makes her a misfit monster. She lives with other misfit monsters, with their quirky parts in their makeshift town. They survive by hunting at the nearby hunting grounds taking items discarded by humans and making them into something useful. Hunting is risky because they could be…
YA Fantasy | Kingsbane | Claire Legrand
I can’t tell you how mega excited I am to have best selling author Claire Legrand in my hot seat today! Claire Legrand’s Empirium series is an epic, fiercely feminist fantasy trilogy which is rewriting the tropes of traditional fantasy novels. Kingsbane (the second story) publishes today in digital and audiobook formats. I can’t wait to get started on Furyborn (the first in the series)! On tour today, Claire is chatting to us about her trilogy, sharing her favourite book and more. If you’re a new writer, don’t miss her useful tip. Enjoy! When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one…
Literary Fiction | The String Games | Gail Aldwin
I’m delighted to be hosting Dorset based author, Gail Aldwin, in my hot seat today. Gail is chatting to us about the inspiration for her debut novel The String Games, her tips for aspiring writers and more. The String Games explores the dynamics of a fractured family coping with the abduction and murder of a small boy. It explores the legacy of guilt shouldered by a child and examines the repercussions as she moves into the teenage years and then adulthood. There are questions about what makes a good mother and whether it is possible to forgive. We’ll be sharing Laura’s thoughts next week, don’t miss it! When four-year-old Josh…
Historical Fiction | A Bitter Harvest | Charles Ellingworth
I’m delighted to be hosting Charles Ellingworth in my hot seat on tour today. Charles is chatting to us about his historical novel A Bitter Harvest which is the first volume in a sequence of novels that will follow the events of the inter-war years and the lives of a unique generation of women. 1919. The Great War is over and an armistice agreed but peace is not a given. England, riven by grief and loss, attacked by the Spanish Flu, with its younger generation of men killed, traumatised or wounded, is adjusting to a changed world. The slaughter of the Great War is over, but the Roaring Twenties are…
Historical Crime | Death and the Harlot | Georgina Clarke
I’m delighted to be on tour today hosting Georgina Clarke in my hot seat. Georgina is chatting to us about her inspiration for debut novel Death and the Harlot, how her protagonist surprised her, the scene she enjoyed writing the most and more. Enjoy! A gripping historical crime debut from an exciting new voice. ‘It’s strange, the way fortune deals her hand.’ The year is 1759 and London is shrouded in a cloak of fear. With the constables at the mercy of highwaymen, it’s a perilous time to work the already dangerous streets of Soho. Lizzie Hardwicke makes her living as a prostitute, somewhat protected from the fray as one…
