The Adventures of a Blonde Writer
Not only was this book my first reading experience of Ella Hayes, but also it was my…..FIRST EVER Mills & Boon. I feel like I have come of age as a romance reader. Before I read this book I was going through a reading bad patch; I was struggling to fall in fictional love with […]
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This book should come with the following warning: There is a powerful kiss contained within this book. It is described in detail over FIVE PAGES and after reading it you are strongly advised to apply a cold flannel to your forehead and go lie down in a darkened room. It took me WEEKS to recover […]
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Two things have happened this week. An old plastic bag unearthed itself at the bottom of my garden. At the time I was inspecting a hole in the fence which my dog had made. Po, my dog, was busying explaining in dog language, a complicated series of barks, woofs and whines, how he was using […]
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This book gave me a strong urge to get a powerful motorbike, dress head to toe in leather, find a handsome bike instructor and become a biker girl. As I dislike speed, rarely travel above 50mph in a car and spend a lot of time screeching, while at the wheel, this biker dream might have […]
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Imagine this. While getting ready for your church’s Easter Sunday service, you struggle to put down an excellent book. It has been half an hour since you stepped out of the shower and in that time you’ve had your head stuck in Kiley Dunbar’s debut novel and not got out of your polka dot bath […]
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Welcome to my blog party to celebrate the book cover reveal of my debut romcom novel, Instructions For Falling In Love Again. Thanks for coming. I LOVE your virtual party outfit – wow – you look great! My goodness you do scrub up well. Hang on, didn’t you get the party brief about NOT outshining the […]
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I love a good matchmaking tale in a romance novel. It combines two of my greatest pastimes; romance and pairing off two people who I believe are MFEO (made for each other). In this book, The Perfect Moment, by Alix Kelso, the matchmakers become attracted to each other while they are meddling in the lives […]
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This feel-good book, The Corner Shop In Cockleberry Bay, got me through a weekend away with three hormonal teenage girls and one ten year old girl (two were mine and the other two were my sister’s kids). Good books get you through stressful times. On a night, in our small budget hotel room, when the […]
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I was busy enjoying a lengthy blog book review break and then I read this! The blog book review itch returned minutes after I finished Rachel Burton’s The Pieces of You and Me. No matter how hard I tried to make the book review itch go away (listening to whale music, relaxing in a cool […]
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Welcome to my weekly diary which records the emotional highs and lows from my writing life. I have not been well this week. For noting, readers – never make fun of your beloved when they have a bad cold. Don’t joke about man flu. I did this with my other half and I ended up […]
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