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Housewife with a Half-Life Blogsplash

I’m thrilled to be taking part in the Blogsplash for Housewife with a Half-Life today. It’s the debut novel from the extraordinarily talented A.B. Wells, who I know through Twitter and the #fridayflash community of writers. To celebrate the launch, she’s running activities on her Author Page on Facebook, on Twitter and on her main blog Head [...]

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by on May 8, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on May 8, 2012

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Meet Evil UnLtd’s Dexter Snide

Everyone loves a villain and today on the Nut Press I’m delighted to welcome Dexter Snide, the deliciously evil mastermind behind Evil UnLtd, whose first two adventures have been chronicled by Simon A Forward and are available in paperback and ebook formats. Welcome to the Nut Press, Mr Snide, or may I call you Dexter? [...]

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by on April 18, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on April 18, 2012

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Freaks: Invisible

An exciting new collection of short stories is released today. It’s a collaboration between two remarkable writers, Caroline Smailes and Nik Perring, and comic book illustrator, Damien Craske. There are over fifty freaks and misfits in this collection and each story features a character with an unusual superpower. To celebrate the launch, I’m hosting one [...]

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by on April 12, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on April 12, 2012

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99 Reasons Why by Caroline Smailes

Author Caroline Smailes publishes her new novel today. 99 Reasons Why is a book with a difference. It is only being published as an ebook and comes with 9 different endings which readers can navigate using multiple choice questions on their Kindle or via a spinning story wheel on their iPad or iPhone. There are also two [...]

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by on March 19, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on March 19, 2012

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Choc Lit Easter Bunny Blog Tour

Sophie’s in trouble. Must be Tuesday.  Sophie Green’s an ex-spy, or trying to be. You wouldn’t believe the trouble she’s in. An MI5 officer has been shot with her gun, her fingerprints all over his office. And no, she didn’t kill him. But she has gone on the run. Now Sophie’s desperately seeking whoever’s trying [...]

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by on March 12, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on March 12, 2012

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Help! I’m being stalked by a book

Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being followed around by a book? It doesn’t seem to matter where you go, it’s there. Like the literary equivalent of an earworm. Admittedly, at the moment, I am only going to the library, some bookshops and the supermarket so my world is small but still. It [...]

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by on February 21, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on February 21, 2012

http://nutpress.co.uk/2012/02/help-im-being-stalked-by-a-book/

Never Coming Home… The ‘Wispa It …’ Blog Tour

The house was in a kind of mews, not directly on the river. Compact, made of old brick. It was a world away from the backstreets of Hackney where he’d grown up. That was an even longer time ago. Yet another name, and another life. He frowned. He didn’t need stuff like that surfacing. He was American, nowadays [...]

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by on February 7, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on February 7, 2012

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Highland Storms by Christina Courtenay

Having already read and enjoyed Christina Courtenay’s previous two novels, Trade Winds and The Scarlet Kimono, you’d think that I would have learned my lesson and left Highland Storms for a weekend when I had some uninterrupted reading time. But no, despite knowing that I find it incredibly hard to put one of her books down, [...]

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by on December 5, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on December 5, 2011

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Highland Storms Blog Tour

Betrayed by his brother and his childhood love, Brice Kinross needs a fresh start. So he welcomes the opportunity to leave Sweden for the Scottish Highlands to take over the family estate. But there’s trouble afoot at Rosyth in 1754 and Brice finds himself unwelcome. The estate’s in ruin and money is disappearing. He discovers [...]

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by on October 3, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on October 3, 2011

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Persuade Me by Juliet Archer

If I tell you that Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors and has been since I was a teenager; that Persuasion is not only my favourite of all her books but one of my all-time favourite books; and that Captain Wentworth is my favourite literary hero, then you’ll probably understand why I might have [...]

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by on September 15, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by kath on September 15, 2011

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