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Hello peeps! November has come and gone, and I’ve been busy getting The Storm, book 3 in The Lady of the Pier trilogy, ready for publication. I am happy to announce the book is now available on Amazon on pre-order. The big day is December 11! Not too long till The Lady discloses her last tragic secrets!

I promised my readers a great Xmas, and it’s only fair, seeing that I’d been really mean and piling on the heartache all this time for both my heroines!

But that’s not all!

I’m currently keeping busy with the launch of a second book, Poetry from The Lady of the Pier. This mini companion book to the series (approximately 50 pages) is a collection of 10 romantic poems from the trilogy and also includes the bonus short story, “An Old Promise”:

Joanna boards a flight from JFK to visit the Greek island of Sifnos again after twenty years. All this time, despite the distance and her life’s circumstances, she’s been holding on to precious memories from an old summer love. Now, she’s determined to meet again the man she once left behind, hoping for a chance to prove she never forgot their old promise…

The book contains no spoilers, and readers who are not familiar with the series may equally enjoy it.

I am going to make this available in all bookstores (not just Amazon) in an attempt to attract new readers to the series. For this reason, the kindle will be perma-free. The paperback will be available in all major bookstores.

UPDATE: I am still working with Amazon to drop the price for the poetry ebook from 99c to FREE. In the meantime, you can download it FREE on other major stores, such as:

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/poetry-from-the-lady-of-the-pier
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1064068977
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1123057439

If you’re an author, please note: I plan to blog a lot in the near future sharing tips for authors and instructions on using various free services, so I hope you’ll stay tuned! These awesome tidbits of information will organize you and make your indie life so much easier!

If you’re a reader, watch this space! Other than continuing to host a new author every Monday, I will keep reviewing the books I read so you can always have great recommendations from me. Remember I only review books if I am going to give them a minimum of 4 stars so you’ll only find here my top recommendations!

Forthcoming interviewees for this month include Martin Crosbie and Mandy Baggot, plus I’ll be reviewing An Almost Perfect Christmas by USA Today bestselling author, Donna Fasano.

Christmas is upon us and I expect many of you will do what I do and shop from Amazon for your loved ones… This year, I had the notion that I should be someone’s Secret Santa among my author friends… To do that, all I need to do is go to Amazon to make my purchases having first visited an author friend’s website. I’ll just click on one of their book links that points to Amazon and which embeds their Amazon Associates affiliate link. This way they will get the benefit of a small commission. Plenty of giving, wonderful friends to choose from, so I’ll pick one by random and continue to do this by picking a different friend each time I make my Amazon purchases throughout the year.

I strongly urge you, whether you’re an author or a reader, to support an indie author with this small gesture this Christmas. It’s peanuts, but it all helps!

Should you feel inclined to support me in this way this Holiday Season, simply click on any of my published books on the right sidebar. This will take you to Amazon with my affiliate link so I can get a small commission if you make any purchases on Amazon during that specific visit (no need to buy my book). Thank you 🙂

Have a great day and enjoy the hectic run up to Xmas! And, for those among you who have been following The Lady of the Pier trilogy, I hope you will enjoy the fairy tale ending of The Storm, reading it in a festive room somewhere! Enjoy 🙂

Hello peeps! I am very excited to announce today that I’ve now finished writing the first draft of The Storm, the last book in The Lady of the Pier trilogy. I still can’t believe it’s done. This has been a complex project that has required a staggering amount of research, mainly because I wanted to record life in Brighton in WWII and to tell the actual story of The West Pier throughout.

Also, I had to deal with two separate timelines that had to blend into one in the concluding volume. Basically it was like writing two separate trilogies at the same time, something that I found daunting plenty of times along the way. In the end, I wrote the stories of Sofia and Laura as two separate books, and then combined them on each volume. I am feeling dizzy just thinking about it – but it is a story very close to my heart, and I think it was worth every bit of the complexity I had to deal with.

Needless to say, for my next project, I am thinking of something light-hearted that requires no research at all, just to give myself a break! I am thinking of trying my hand with a chick-lit story next time, and just because normality bores me, I guess I’ll have to put into the mix some kind of supernatural, whimsical element again, just to keep me interested!

Now, a great offer and some more info on the trilogy:

Book 1, The Ebb, is currently 99c on Amazon USA only. Grab a copy before the offer ends! This is the most light-hearted among the three volumes, and it will please lovers of sweet romance and beach romance.

In Book2, The Flow, life takes a very tragic turn for Laura. This book is predominantly a drama, and also has ample historical and paranormal elements. Look out for it this summer, or better yet, sign up to my newsletter to hear it first when this book is launched!

Book 3, The Storm, is where the two parallel timelines merge into one. To make it possible, I had to intensify the paranormal element to the max! The spookiness is off the charts here, and I hope lovers of the paranormal among you will enjoy it. If you sign up to the newsletter, I’ll make sure to notify you towards the end of the year when this book is released.

All in all, I think I have created a series of three books where each one has a totally different feel. Some readers may find The Flow shockingly dramatic, but as I told my biggest fan, my step-daughter Stephanie, no matter how much devastation Laura goes through, I promise the trilogy will have a perfectly happy ending.

I hope you will enjoy The Lady of the Pier trilogy, should you decide to give it a try. I expect The West Pier’s exceptional story will fascinate you if you do, just like it has charmed me, enough to want to tell it.