I’m delighted to welcome Rachel Amphlett with a guest post and extract from her new book, released yesterday. Call To Arms is the fifth book in the Detective Kay Hunter crime thriller series. So without further ado, it’s over to Rachel….
Category Archives: New Release
#Guest Post by William L Myers #author of An Engineered Injustice (Philadelphia Legal) #NewRelease #TuesdayBookBlog
I’m delighted to welcome William Myers, with a guest post about the ups and downs of getting his first book published. It’s also the release day of his second novel An Engineered Injustice.
Here’s the synopsis…..
When a passenger train derails in North Philadelphia with fatal results, idealistic criminal defense attorney Vaughn Coburn takes on the most personal case of his young career. The surviving engineer is his cousin Eddy, and when Eddy asks Vaughn to defend him, he can’t help but accept. Vaughn has a debt to repay, for he and his cousin share an old secret—one that changed both their lives forever.
As blame for the wreck zeros in on Eddy, Vaughn realizes there’s more to this case than meets the eye. Seeking the truth behind the crash, he finds himself the target of malicious attorneys, corrupt railroad men, and a mob boss whose son perished in the accident and wants nothing less than cold-blooded revenge. With the help of his ex-con private investigator and an old flame who works for the competition, Vaughn struggles to defeat powerful forces—and to escape his own past built on secrets and lies.
His Guilty Secret ~ New Release by @helenefermont #Extract #Psychological @BookPublicistUK #TuesdayBookBlog
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for His Guilty Secret by Hélene Fermont
#GuestPost & #Extract from Margaret Skea #HistoricalFiction #wwwblogs @margaretskea1
I’m very pleased to welcome Margaret Skea, with a guest post and extract from her new book, Katharina: Deliverance, which is released today. Happy release day, Margaret, and over to you….
Sidetracked into a different world (and time).
So there I was, in March 2016, fresh from a month on a Hawthornden Fellowship – an all expenses stay in a 17th c Scottish castle with nothing to do but write. We were very well looked after – cooking, cleaning, clothes washing and so on all done for us – the only ‘rule’ a rule of silence in the castle from 9.00am – 6.30 pm. That, and the surroundings, made for an incredible work environment and having gone with heaps of research material, but not even the most sketchy plan for my next novel, I came home, after seventeen days of actual writing, ¼ of the way through Book 3 in my Scottish historical fiction series. It seemed my next nine months were taken care of.
The best laid plans ‘gang oft agley’ as they say here. A couple of weeks into March I headed down to London for my first visit to London Book Fair. The buzz was energising and I managed to get individual appointments with several agents and agencies, hoping that someone would be keen on Scottish HF – after all, Outlander was proving popular…
#NewRelease ~ Cayleth Warding and the Scarlet One by Jessica Hernandez #Fantasy
About the book
Fifty-three families looking for a new beginning board a ship and sail to an uninhabited island. Happily they live for well over two decades. Homes are built and the past is forgotten. Paradise, however, is no more after the adults suddenly vanish one night. For three years, the teens and children rule the island of Oridd. For three years, they survive. When an old woman unexpectedly appears on Oridd, all is cast into disarray as the strange and awful threaten to become commonplace. The old woman wants something, and she won’t leave until she gets it.
Book links ~ Amazon UK | Amazon US | Goodreads
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Extract
An unusually vibrant blob nudged its way into the periphery of Cayleth’s gaze. The elder’s heart came to an abrupt halt as she realized that a gray-haired woman clothed in scarlet had entered the clearing. Loitering at a hundred or so yards from the tree line, the elderly stranger assessed the assembled crowd. Her lips curled upwards disquietingly as she lifted her chin and gave entrance to menace—which danced maniacally upon her face. Cayleth felt her stomach churn violently. She watched the stranger expose her neck and run her fingers from her forehead to the collar of her gown. The ruby gloves donned by the old woman weren’t gloves at all. Had they been, her caresses wouldn’t have left her looking like one just bathed in a pool of gore. Continue reading
The Brilliance of Small Characters #romantic #crime #thriller Parallel Lies ~ Georgia Rose @GeorgiaRoseBook
I’m very pleased to welcome Georgia Rose, author of The Grayson Trilogy, to BetweenTheLines today with a guest post and extract from her new book Parallel Lies, due for release on 12th September but available for pre-order now!
Don’t miss the link for a fabulous giveaway further down the post.
Over to you, Georgia…..
The Brilliance of Small Characters
I’m using the word brilliance here to mean vividness and wanted to clarify that before there’s any assumption that my characters have any special talents. They don’t. They are just normal people, like you and me. The main characters of a book are easy to write as you have the whole book to flesh them out, to add in the detail, the traits and flaws. But I particularly love writing the smaller characters. You might only have a few paragraphs in which to bring them alive, sometimes only a couple of lines.
We all live our lives with many people around us. Even if we try and live as hermit like as possible there are still those we interact with, if only briefly. I love people watching and particularly enjoy imagining the lives of those that cross my path, in waiting rooms, around town, I’m never bored. As some kind of amateur detective I pass the time when waiting in the queue at the supermarket by building a story line around someone else’s shopping basket – but then I imagine everyone does that, don’t they? Continue reading
#Guest Post from Erin Rhew ~ The Courage to Really Live ~ @ErinRhewBooks
The Courage to Really Live
Thank you to Cathy for hosting me today, and a big hello to Cathy’s readers! <waves> I’m currently on blog tour with my husband, Deek Rhew, to celebrate the release of his book and the spotlight feature my publisher is putting on my trilogy, The Fulfillment Series!
In 2007, I thought I was going to die. Not in the “OMG, I’m going to die” figurative sense, but in the literal “I’m sick enough to actually die” sense. I’m thankful to have a huge family and tons of friends who supported me through many surgeries and on the long recovery road.
This girl is dying. Continue reading
#Guest Post from Deek Rhew ~ talking #Cats & #NewRelease @DeekRhewBooks
I’m so excited to be on Between the Lines! Thanks for having me on, Cathy, and hello to all you readers of Between the Lines!
Today I get to do a guest post, no limits, whatever I want. This Woop! Yaaaay! Okay, what do I do? Well, how about something fun! Erin and I are always talking about our literary cat, Trinity. We also call her Trinna Baby or Fatness or Fat Fat or Fatness Everchubs. She’s got a relaxed outlook on life and see-food-eat-it mentality. We love our, er, little ball of fur.
Trinny is the official leader of Rhewination, the street name for Erin and Deek and their fans. Have YOU joined the Rhewination?
Why haven’t you fed the cat today?
Here she is looking down on her peeps.
She created her very first message to her Rhewvians. Check out her message:
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But Trinna is more than just a dictator that likes to get her belly rubbed. The world is FULL of those! She’s also a literary cat! Continue reading
Released today! Taming Tom Jones by Margaret K Johnson ~ Guest post & Excerpt
Her partner Michael has never been in a relationship for more than four years, so with their fourth anniversary coming up, Jen’s getting understandably nervous. Especially as she’s just discovered she’s pregnant, and she knows Michael doesn’t want any more children other than Kyle, his teenage son.
She means to tell Michael about the baby right away, but then he comes home on a brand new motorbike, having traded in his sensible car, and the moment is lost. Is Michael having an early mid-life crisis?
Jen decides to do some detective work about Michael’s exes in an effort to save their relationship, and embarks on a journey that will take her as far afield as North Norfolk and Cuba. But she has no idea of the can of worms she’s about to open.
Why do all Michael’s relationships break up? And what’s the big secret he’s hiding?
I’m very pleased to welcome Margaret as she tells us about her new novel, with an invitation to attend the online launch party….
I started writing my novel Taming Tom Jones when I was at the University of East Anglia as a mature student, taking an MA in Scriptwriting. I was supposed to be building up to writing my dissertation – a full-length screenplay or stage play, but the beginning of Taming Tom Jones just sprang vividly into my head, and I quickly became obsessed with my character Jen and her dilemma. When the book starts, Jen has just found out she’s pregnant by her partner Michael, and she’s thrilled, because she’s always wanted a family. In fact, she’s so thrilled, it makes her realize just how much she’s been supressing her desire to have children; because, unfortunately, Michael doesn’t feel the same way. He’s always been honest about it, making sure she was aware of his views very early on in their relationship. His exact words were: Continue reading
Linn B Halton’s Quintessentially Yours ~ New Release Coming Soon
Here is the fabulous cover for Quintessentially Yours, the follow-up to Under The Stars. The sequel can be read as a standalone novel, but personally I like to have the full back story on the characters so would recommend reading Under The Stars first.
Quintessentially Yours is due for release by Amazon on the 5th August and my review will be coming in September.
Katherine Dale lives her life according to her daily horoscope forecast. Having recently hit forty, Katherine is living with her partner, James Kingman, and their delightful little six-month-old daughter, Leyla. James is an up-and-coming name in astrology and that’s how they met. At a party to celebrate the publication of Katherine’s first novel, James was about to propose when Katherine announced the news that she was expecting a baby. ‘Ask me later, when I can fit into my dream dress’ she’d told him.
Wind forward thirteen months and while there is an engagement ring on Katherine’s finger, James still can’t mention the ‘m’ word. Leyla suffers from colic and won’t settle into any semblance of a routine. The lack of sleep is taking its toll on them all. James is at his wits’ end trying to cope with his increasing workload, while handling a hormonal woman who feels like an abject failure. And then there’s his boss, who has designs – on him! Continue reading
