Hey all! 

So – seven days to the release of The Holly & the Ivy, and the countdown continues! 

We’re now into the closing stages of the prep and I’m ramping it up, so you won’t see quite so much of me here for the moment. Why not? Well,  I’m writing guest blogs, digging around for some great deals to send out to my mailing list and putting together bonus material for those who buy in the first week. Talking of which, if you have any great ideas, let me know – I have some fun stuff planned but there’s always room for a little more!

So: for those of you not on the mailing list:

if you have read my short fairytale type story A Sprig of Holly, you may be interested to know that the sequel, The Holly & the Ivy is now available for preorder. For those who buy pre-release or in the first few days, if you mail me your receipts you will receive in return a batch of exclusive bonus material. More details will follow as I’m currently still compiling it, but you won’t get it anywhere else!

Second, if you do sign up to the mailing list you should be able to get a free copy of The Locket as part of the signup process. If the link did not work for you, please let me know. (We had a shortlived technical glitch but this should now be fixed.)

In the meantime, though I don’t often send mails out, we have a run of them coming up to release day as I have tracked down some pretty good deals for you all, so if your TBR is looking a little patchy…. okay, okay, stop with the hollow laughter, I know you are as addicted to books as I am but I’m a sucker for a pretty cover, okay? 

Let me rephrase: if, like me, the only reason you have not been buried alive by your TBR list is because it lives in cyberspace and therefore has currently refrained from taking physical form,watch the mailing list for a series of bundles and offers to add to your ebook empire. 

Better?

Lastly, can I just have a little smug moment? Old faithfuls will know that a year or two back I released a novel called Song of the Ice Lord,  about which I’m a little bit tentative. I think it’s good, of course, or I wouldn’t have published it. My editors thought it was good, or ditto. But I’m really aware that for a straight woman to attempt to write a bisexual man is a bit of a risk, so I’ve kind of left it to sink or swim by itself for the moment. 

That being the case, the fact that one of Amazon’s top 1000 reviewers in the UK has reviewed and loved it was a real lift, and when I asked her afterwards, she said that the relationship between the men was part of what made it for her, which is just the most exciting thing to hear. One of the biggest kicks of being an author is that moment when someone reads your stuff and ‘gets’ it – not in a “ah, clever me” sense but because these character are like friends. It’s very much like when you have two sets of really cool friends and you introduce them to each other and they all really get on, so you end up having the most hilarious time because it all snowballs. Hurrah!

Anyhow, the review is here for anyone who is interested. Just need to find about a hundred more now, obv…! Anyone about to run out of stuff to read- oh wait, we just had this conversation, didn’t we? heheheh. But, y’know, review copies always available should you like the look of it. 

Upon which note I should really stop chattering.  After all, only ten days to go! And in the meantime, I have  bonus material to write, deals to unearth and newsletters to put together.  Have a good week, folks, and watch this space (or the newsletter) for more gossip anon.

Right. *deep breath* Onwards!

….and into day 6….

JAC.