Name: Winter at The Dog & Duck
Author: Jill Steeples
Format: ebook
Pages: 260
Release date: 1st October
Publisher: Aria
Teaser
Ellie Browne has left behind her high-flying job in London to return to the charming Buckinghamshire village of Little Leyton. Working shifts at The Dog and Duck and running her own doggy-day-care business, Ellie's looking for a much simpler way of life and a good old fashioned Christmas.
But Little Leyton’s landscape is changing; Johnny Tay, Ellie's ex, wants to pick up where they left off; sultry property developer Max Golding, has moved into the village and is ruffling feathers; and rumour has it that the pub, which holds a special place in Ellie's heart, might be sold. Suddenly, life’s looking a whole lot more complicated...
Can Ellie juggle her emotions and commitments in time to celebrate Christmas?
Today I have Casie Rocca on
Dreaming With Open Eyes talking to me about her debut release
A New York Love Story, which is going to be released on 1st October.
Giving a present is not
always easy. Clover O’Brian knows that only too well: her job consists
of helping people in the arduous task of choosing unusual gifts.
Christmas is coming, New York is buzzing, and Clover, who has always
loved the festive period, savours the atmosphere.
Cade Harrison
already has everything in life. A Hollywood actor, he is handsome, rich,
famous and popular. Success, however, has its downsides; having just
emerged from a disastrous relationship with an actress, he feels a need
to hide away in an area unfrequented by stars, in an apartment lent him
by a friend, far from prying eyes – especially those of tabloid
reporters. But as chance will have it, the apartment in question is
right opposite the one occupied by Clover, who until now has seen
Hollywood actors only on the big screen. Two quite different lives meet
by chance, at the most exhilarating time of year…
Name: Before You
Author: Kathryn Freeman
Format: ebook
Pages: 346
Release date: June 21st 2016
Publisher: Choc Lit
Teaser
When life in the fast lane threatens to implode …
Melanie Hunt’s job working for the Delta racing team means she is constantly rubbing shoulders with Formula One superstars in glamorous locations like Monte Carlo. But she has already learned that keeping a professional distance is crucial if she doesn’t want to get hurt.
New Delta team driver Aiden Foster lives his life like he drives his cars – fast and hard. But, no matter how successful he is, it seems he always falls short of his championship-winning father’s legacy. If he could just stay focused, he could finally make that win.
Resolve begins to slip as Melanie and Aiden find themselves drawn to each other –with nowhere to hide as racing season begins. But when a troubled young boy goes missing, everything is thrown into turmoil, including Aiden’s championship dream.
I'm so excited to bring you the ReLaunch and ReBrand of Aimee Horton's 'The Perfect Disaster Serires'
Velvet Morning Press has recently ReLaunched these books with the fabulous covers below!
I LOVE these new covers!! I can't wait to read these!! (To find out more about each book, click on the covers)
Perfect Mishap
A hilarious and honest British mom's madcap adventures in suburbia, from Amazon UK bestselling author Aimee Horton!
Dottie Harris has a knack for stumbling into chaotic situations, gin & tonic in hand. When Dottie and Henry Harris move to their new house, Dottie's only desire is to make friends in the neighbourhood. But Dottie, just home from delivering her third child, is struggling to adjust to village life. Recently promoted Henry travels a lot, and the neighbours aren't very welcoming (although that could be because when Dottie first met them, she had dyed her children green). So when Dottie accidentally hears her neighbours' conversations over her baby monitor, she can't help but use the sneaky information in her quest to build new friendships.
Of course, eavesdropping never ends well, and when Dottie discovers that two of her neighbours are having an affair, she's horrified. Worse still, the locals are convinced she's the one who's doing the cheating. It's up to Dottie to clear her name and uncover (and expose) the real cheat—in her signature haphazard way! A humorous blend between chick lit and cozy mystery, this funny novel will have you laughing along with gin-drinking amateur sleuth Dottie! Previously published as Mothers Ruined
Bridget Jones's Diary meets The Nanny Diaries in this Amazon UK Best Seller! The only thing Dottie Harris loves more than her gin & tonic is her family. Most of the time. From her hapless-but-well-meaning husband to her two energetic bundles of joy, Dottie certainly has her hands full. And she's tired. So tired.With quips like "How do sleeping babies know the minute you sit down?" this modern-day diary will have you laughing—when you're not crying with empathy, that is! Dottie tells it like it is: the good, the bad, and the eternal piles of dirty laundry. If you're looking for chick lit packed with parenting humor, or simply want to know you're not the only one having trouble parenting newborns and toddlers, this book about the ups and downs of parenthood is for you! It's a motherhood manifesto, social media style! Previously published as Survival of the Ginnest.
Name: On The Edge
Author: T.S. Krupa
Format: ebook
Pages: 318
Release date: 9th June 2015
Publisher: LLC
Teaser
Andy
Parker is a war widow raising her fifteen-year-old daughter on her own.
Hayden Grace dreams of becoming a professional snowboarder, and Andy is
doing everything she can to make that happen. When Hayden Grace’s
passion begins to falter, Andy is at a loss for how to re-inspire her
daughter.
Andy
does her best balancing Hayden Grace’s competition schedule, practice,
and school with her own work schedule at home, in the city, and on the
mountain. But work starts to demand more from Andy. Then, Andy receives
an opportunity of a lifetime. An opportunity that will turn their lives
upside down. But is it too good to be true?
Soon,
mother and daughter find themselves in Aspen for Hayden Grace’s first
national competition when a chance encounter brings Andy into a
passionate, unexpected romance, a romance that could change everything.
Will Andy be able to find the happiness she deserves?
Name: Surviving The Rachel
Author: Aven Ellis
Format: ebook
Pages: 262 pages
Release date: 19th December 2014
Publisher: self-published
Teaser
Life after college graduation is not at all what twenty-one-year-old Bree Logan expected. Unable to find a professional communications job, dumped by the guy who was THE ONE, and stuck with a pricey city apartment she can’t afford, Bree ends up moving back home with her parents in the suburbs and working as a cocktail server at a posh Chicago hotel.
In a desperate attempt to get a fresh start, Bree goes to a hip salon and requests that the first available stylist chop off her long dark hair. Alarmed when the stylist suggests “The Rachel,” after the famous haircut from the show Friends, Bree is hesitant, but decides to go for it when she is assured it will be a “fresh, modern adaptation” of the infamous 90’s cut. Unfortunately for Bree, it turns out to be exactly the same cut, but with horrific heavy bangs added to it. Hideous doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Bree is convinced nothing will ever go right when she meets neighbor Jack Chelten, a twenty-five-year-old German translator. Not that Bree is looking to date anyone, but there's something quirky and intriguing about his freckle-splashed face and blue eyes. And suddenly Bree finds herself seeking out different opportunities and challenges . . . as well as the boy next door.
In her new adult life, Bree learns that sometimes you have to go through crises to get to where you need to be. And if you can survive The Rachel, you can survive anything, right?
Can young hearts ease a restless spirit?
On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do not happen to Gina - a self-confessed control freak with her own successful property business, she prides herself on being level-headed. But as she is tormented by dreams and visions, her perfect life begins to unravel, and she knows she needs to help this ghost find peace if she’s to get any of her own!
Enter Ollie Martin, an Anglo-Swiss property developer who’s sexy as hell and knows it. His arrogance annoys Gina, but he’s the only one who will take her seriously… and the closer they come to understanding the quest the ghost has set for them, the closer they get to one another…
You are invited to the wedding of the year!
Snow is falling thick and fast outside the Gingerbread Café and inside, its owner Lily is planning the wedding of the year. Her wedding! She never dreamt it would happen, but this Christmas, she’ll be marrying the man of her dreams - in a Christmas-card-perfect ceremony!
The gingerbread is baking, the dress is fitted and the mistletoe’s in place – for once, everything’s going to plan. That is until her mother-in-law arrives... Suddenly, Lily’s famous cool is being tested like never before and her dream wedding is crumbling before her eyes.
In the blink of a fairylight, the Gingerbread Café has been thrown into chaos! Lily thought she had this wedding wrapped up, but with so much to do before she says ‘I do’, can Lily get to the church on time – and make this Christmas sparkle after all?
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A copywriter at CBA in Soho’s Adland in the 1980’s, Ella is either
pretending to be a cat called Marmalade in order to pen letters from
him, or fending off advances from her boss, ageing Lothario, Peter
Richards. She had a less than idyllic childhood at the hands of a
damaged father and survives by treating life as a joke, while enduring
chauvinistic jibes to keep her job and enable her to pay her mortgage
and her frail Mum’s rent.
The one constant bright spot in her life is her cake-fuelled friendship with former colleague Adam Hart. When Ella takes some Chardonnay-inspired liberties with Marmalade’s
copy, the client sees it and threatens to fire the agency. Peter puts
Ella on the horns of a horny dilemma: either he fires her or sires her.
Given the country is in recession, she plays along and their ‘Little
Arrangement’ is born. Luckily, an accident temporarily renders her too
ugly for Peter to bed but he uses her appearance to bar her from a new
business pitch, enabling him to take the credit when her idea wins the
account. Ella is incensed and Peter pretends to fire her to teach her a
lesson. Treated like a dog by a bitch at the unemployment office, Ella
is so upset, she prangs her car. A young singer and professional
ego-maniac comes to her rescue. Tom-everyone-wants-a-piece-of me-Tyler
worms his way into her heart but when he claims to have spent the night
in a Photo-Me-Booth and she discovers a condom in his pocket, it proves a
prophylactic too far…
Buy your copy of I am Ella, Buy Me
here.
Hello Joan and welcome to Dreaming With Open Eyes. First of all, tell us a bit about yourself
I spent years penning letters from dogs. As an award-winning copywriter, you have to be adaptable! With a full-time job in a London advertising agency and a new baby, I did what any right-minded woman would've done and set up a comedy club. I even appeared on the same bill as Jo Brand. Once. As a university lecturer, I taught comedian Noel Fielding all he knows about advertising. I also tutored Wordsworth's great-grandson in the art: Buy a host of golden daffodils. Get a yellow one, free! I also wrote a column in a fashionable glossie about my young daughter. She is eighteen now and has never read a word of them. A Londoner, I now live beside the sea-side and eat mainly cream teas.
What can you tell us about I am Ella. Buy Me that will pique the reader’s interest?
'I am a ginger tom. I am a boy racer. I am a housewife. I am a pain in the arse.'
The opening lines set the tone for a funny, fast-paced novel set against a backdrop of 80s London where money trumps morals and lust is a must. As a girl in man's world, Ella battles her lothario boss, Peter on her way to the top. Faced with losing her job or sleeping with him, she turns to her friend, Adam. Can love help her go from a girl in the firing line to a woman calling the shots? Ella doesn’t always make the right choices – she’s as real as you or me. She’s Bridget Jones meets Peggy from Mad Men; it’s chic lit with extras.
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
A Kind of Magic.
Part-time witch, full-time glamorous high-flyer Esme Mcleod rubs shoulders with celebrities for a living, has a sort-of-boyfriend …and just enough magic in her fingertips to solve life’s little irritations; why shouldn’t she cast a little spell to catch the busy barman’s attention, or to summon a latte to aid her all-nighters?
Called back to her small Scottish home town and meddling family, stiletto-clad Esme is way out of her comfort zone… But Esme must embrace her abilities as a witch, or watch her family lose their beloved café.
Except Esme has never claimed to be a whizz at witchcraft, and her charms are starting to go awry - she certainly never meant to cast a love spell on her ex-boyfriend Jamie! It’s time for urgent lessons in magic as well as love – it seems there’s only so much that muttering a few words over cupcake batter will fix…
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Creating Kylie Reed
Kylie Reed is the heroine in my latest
release, Waiting for Prince Harry.
Creating Kylie was a multi-step process, and it started with her internal conflict:
fear. Fear of failure, fear of disappointing people, fear of standing up for
herself.
I often see young women struggle with
this--fear holding them back, and having experienced it myself, I knew it was a
topic I wanted to explore. I wanted to show Kylie wrestling with it, putting
off taking action by filing her dreams in a “future” file to be lived later. I
wanted her to grow with Harrison, the hero of the book, and have both of them
learn to face their fears together.
So once I had the conflict, next I had to craft her
looks and personality. Her looks came to me by chance--I was at coworker’s desk
and she had a photo of her daughter-in-law on it. The young woman was
absolutely stunning--with long, dark hair and brown eyes. But she radiated warmth
in her pictures. Kindness. Someone you would want to meet and be around. And
the second I saw this picture, I had the physical inspiration for Kylie Reed. I
could see Harrison being drawn to her genuine spirit, and her espresso-colored
eyes would always tell him everything he needed to know.
This is the first time I'm part of a Blog Tour. I am very excited about it. I'm so happy to host Emma Hart's guest post: A day in the writing Life.
Title: The Right Moves (The Game, #3)
Author: Emma Hart
Publication Date: 27th March, 2014
Organised By:
The Book Lovers
Her past is wrought with demons.
His past is full of heartbreak.
Yet he's the one person that can remind her what it means to live.
Abbi Jenkins never thought she would leave the walls of the mental institution that's housed her for the last year. Now she has, but that doesn't mean she's forgotten everything Pearce put her through.
She knows there's only one way to deal with the depression that claws at her mind each day, and ballet becomes more than a hobby, a dream. Ballet - and Julliard - becomes a reason to live. Something to hold on for.
Blake Smith left London for one reason and one reason only. Running from the heartbreak of his past was never something he wanted to do, but with constant reminders everywhere he turned, it became his only option. When he arrives in New York City, he vows he'll keep the promise he made to his sister and get into Juilliard.
But he doesn't expect to be paired with Abbi in class, the girl whose eyes show a world of pain he's seen before. Pain he knows too well. As each hour they spend together pulls them closer, Blake can't fight his need to save her from herself.
Lines blur as their pasts are wrenched into the open, and they have to ask themselves whether they're too broken to ever to be fixed, or if they're the healing the other needs.
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