Newsflash!
Saving the Lakeside Hotel and Return to the Lakeside Hotel are just 99p on kindle for a few days!
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Saving the Lakeside Hotel
‘Armchair travel at its best!’
Cass Grafton
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Daria’s Daughter
‘Chillingly suspenseful…‘
Carmen Radtke
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The Runaway
‘a stonking good read’
Jo Bartlett
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The Un-Family
‘A brilliant read & highly recommended’
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The Cold Cold Sea
‘An emotional read, a turbulent read.’
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Return to the Lakeside Hotel – out now! #newbook
And like last time, my book went out with no problem at all – the gremlins really do seem to be gone. Next time, we can try for a more traditional approach to publication again… 🙂 To celebrate, both books … Continue reading
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Tagged Lakeside Hotel, Switzerland, travel, Writing
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Two days (approximately) to go… #newbook
It’s back to crossed fingers here in N.E. Switzerland – if everything goes according to plan, Return to the Lakeside Hotel will be available at the beginning of the week, and both books will be on offer at 99p for … Continue reading
Cover Love #books #amreading #coverlove
I read recently that the main purpose of a book cover is to attract the reader’s attention. Obviously, it should have something to do with the subject of the book too – you wouldn’t put an image of a vegetable … Continue reading
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Tagged cover image, Cover Love, publishing, Stolen Sister, Writing
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A week in the writing life… #amwriting #coverreveal
Saving the Lakeside Hotel is two weeks old tomorrow, and I’m beginning to recover from the unexpected suddenness of having my first full length feel-good book catapulted into the world. I was very happy to have lovely review posts last … Continue reading
One week on… pictures of Switzerland #amwriting
My new book is a week old tomorrow. One of the things I enjoy most about writing the Lakeside Hotel books is that I can picture the scenery. Come to that, I can go for my daily walk in a … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life, travel
Tagged Lake Constance, Saving the Lakeside Hotel, Switzerland, travel, Writing
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Surprise… and a special offer #newbook #travel
What can I say? I didn’t think for a minute that I’d be writing this blog post today, but after my poor Un-Family spent over eight days being approved for publication on Amazon, Saving the Lakeside Hotel whizzed through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lake Constance, new release, publication day, Saving the Lakeside Hotel, Switzerland, travel, Writing
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Coming soon in feel-good fiction… #travel #Switzerland
A holiday in Switzerland… that was something I’d never experienced when I arrived at Basle Airport on a cold January afternoon in the 1980s. That day, I was all set to work for a year, see something of Europe, learn … Continue reading
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Tagged Lake Constance, reading, Saving the Lakeside Hotel, Switzerland, travel, Writing
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Saving the Lakeside Hotel – the cover image… #feelgoodfiction #travel
It’s only a few weeks now until Saving the Lakeside Hotel – theoretically – hits an Amazon store near you. I’m saying theoretically, because after the mix-up with The Un-Family, I’m not counting any of my metaphorical chickens before they’re … Continue reading
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Tagged cover image, Go On Write, Saving the Lakeside Hotel, Switzerland, Writing
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New book on the way! #amwriting #travel And it’s set by a lake in Switzerland…
Several years ago now, I self-published the Lakeside Hotel series, five feel-good novellas about Stacy from Cheshire and Rico from N.E. Switzerland. It was fun, and a restful contrast to my rather gloomier psychological suspense fiction, but I always felt … Continue reading
2022… The best of times and the worst of times #NewYear
If anything taught us that nothing lasts forever, it was 2022. The moment we got used to the covid numbers going down, up they went again. As soon as we were accustomed to calling one person ‘the prime minister’, someone … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, books, crime fiction, feel-good fiction, Happy New Year, Hobeck Books, reading, Writing
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