WIN The Ceruleans Books 1-3 in the Romance Is in the Air giveaway hop
If you haven’t given my YA romance series The Ceruleans a try yet, here’s your chance. The winner will receive Death Wish, Forget Me Not and Wild Blue Yonder as ebooks. Entry is open to all. Good luck!...
View ArticleThe Wednesday teaser: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully #8
Always a worry when your girlfriend’s dad and sister are murderers, and she’s in the mood for vengeance herself…
View ArticleFrom the scrapbook: The lake
I often wander and wonder around this lake at the University of Nottingham during a writing phase.
View ArticleThe Wednesday teaser: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully #9
The problem with Sleeping Beauty is, she’s a painfully absent mum.
View ArticleCeruleans sweet somethings
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, I’ve collated some of my favourite sweet somethings uttered by Luke in The Ceruleans. (I refuse to call them sweet nothings – since when were romantic utterances...
View ArticleJoin the Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully Release Day Party
Today’s the day! Three years since first putting pen to paper, and a year since first sharing Death Wish, my Ceruleans series is complete, with the publication of Book 5, Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully:...
View ArticleThe Wednesday teaser: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully #10
I wish Luke Cavendish would travel 200 miles to bring me cake…
View ArticleFrom the scrapbook: Plymouth from the folly
A view of the city of Plymouth from Luke and Scarlett’s folly at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.
View ArticleThe Wednesday teaser: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully #11
What is love? Sacrifice, or integrity?
View Article‘Tread softly because you tread on my dreams’
William Butler Yeats is one of my favourite poets. I used lines from his poem ‘The Second Coming’ for the epigraph of Devil and the Deep: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of...
View ArticleWin Death Wish in the Leap Into Books giveaway hop
Hello, welcome and thanks for stopping by. For this Leap Into Books giveaway hop, I’m giving away an ebook copy of my novel Death Wish, Book 1 of The Ceruleans series. Entry is via Rafflecopter and is...
View ArticleWhat Cerulean snippets lie discarded on the cutting-room floor?
‘Plenty,’ is the answer. But stop! **SPOILER ALERT** Don’t read on in this post until you’ve finished all The Ceruleans books. Ready? Here goes: Scarlett was fleetingly Ruby; Sienna started out as...
View ArticleThe Wednesday teaser: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully #12
“Under all anger is fear, and under all fear is fear of loss.”
View ArticleThe overpowering necessity to create, create, create
A couple of years ago a (fabulously well-read and similarly sensitive) friend introduced me to the following description of a creative, penned by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck:...
View ArticleFrom the scrapbook: Bigbury-on-Sea
My grandparents used to take me to Bigbury for the day when I was tiny, so it was nostalgic to go back there with my own little boy (he’s the speck mid-shot). When the tide is in, you catch the sea...
View ArticleMusic for the Muse: ‘Never Let Me Go’
The signature song of Death Wish, and a huge inspiration for the entire Ceruleans series.
View ArticleWin Cecelia Ahern’s novel ‘How to Fall in Love’
Hello, and thanks for stopping by on the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop. I’m giving away a fantastic romance novel by my favourite Irish author, Cecelia Ahern. Christine Rose is crossing the Ha’penny...
View ArticleThe Wednesday teaser: Darkly, Deeply, Beautifully #14
Dreaming, hoping… fighting for a future.
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