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News: Thank you for supporting our Blog Tour

02 Monday Apr 2018

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Adele Blair, Anne Cater, Anne Williams, Jo Barton, Jo Robertson, Karen Cole, Laurie Bell, Linda Hill, Rachel Broughton, Rachel Gilbey, Ronnie Turner, Sarah Hardy, Susan Corcoran

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A MASSIVE thank you to all the lovely bloggers who supported us during our publication Blog Tour for A Forsaken Friend.

We’ve been thrilled to bits by all your generous comments and the fantastic feedback we’ve received.

Saying thank you doesn’t begin to describe how much we appreciated your reviews, guest posts, Facebook posts and Twitter shares.

Nevertheless, THANK YOU Anne Cater from Random Things Tours for your hard work in co-ordinating everything and MANY THANKS too to the following people who featured us on their blogs during the tour:

Laurie Bell, Adele Blair, Anne Williams, Linda Hill, Sarah Hardy, Susan Corcoran, Jo Barton, Karen Cole, Anne Cater, Rachel Broughton, Ronnie Turner, and Jo Robertson.

THANKS also to Rachel Gilbey, for organising our fantastic cover reveal tour, and, finally, thank you to everyone who liked, shared and retweeted their posts.

News: A Forsaken Friend giveaway winner

02 Monday Apr 2018

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A Forsaken Friend, Giveaway winner, Heather Haigh

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Happy Easter to Heather Haigh, lucky winner of A Forsaken Friend bundle of Yorkshire giveaways.

Thank you to everyone who took part.

 

 

News: An evening with Featherstone Reading Group

27 Tuesday Mar 2018

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With a surname like Featherstone, there’s one stop-off that had to be a priority during the publication week blog tour for A Forsaken Friend – the former mining town of Featherstone where, in 1893, Winston Churchill allegedly ordered troops to fire on striking miners.

He didn’t: the culprit was a local magistrate but the myth persists.

History aside – it was lovely to be invited to join the lovely ladies of Featherstone reading group and to chat books with them.

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Thank you to Kathy Ryan for the invitation and to everyone else for making me so welcome.

Looking forward to catching up again soon.

And you can find out more about the Featherstone massacre, in which two miners died and six others were injured, here.

News: time to join Lee and Teri for dinner – but what’s on the menu?

16 Friday Mar 2018

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A Forsaken Friend, Exclusive extract, Lakewater Press

A Forsaken FriendThankfully, after yesterday’s hair-raising encounter Teri has got her clothes back on but nothing is ever straightforward where she and best friend Lee are concerned.

Today’s exclusive extract from A Forsaken Friend, published by Lakerwater Press on March 21, sees the two meet-up over dinner in Teri’s favourite restaurant.

Only this time Teri’s taking the food orders – and she’s not happy to see Lee and her new beau getting their feet under the table.

Described as a warm, funny and entertaining read, full of twists and turn, A Forsaken Friend is more diva lit than chick lit it, and follows the lives of best friends Teri Meyer and Lee Harper as they navigate the ups-and-downs of their friendship whilst also juggling men, careers and family.

A Forsaken Friend is currently available to pre-order on Amazon for just 99p. And you can pick up a copy A Falling Friend, the first novel in our Friends trilogy, free on Amazon  March 21-26.

Don’t forget to visit Lakewater Press here and see why Lee isn’t expecting much in the way of customer service.

 

News: let’s see a bit more of Teri Meyer – a lot more…

15 Thursday Mar 2018

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A Forsaken FriendIt’s time to meet Teri Meyer in the flesh – quite literally.

In this second exclusive extract marking the countdown to the publication of A Forsaken Friend, my character-driven second novel with Susan Pape, Teri has a hair-raising encounter with some wild beasts and lays everything bare before a man, who she later describes as ‘gorgeous and God-like’.

Described as a warm, funny and entertaining read, full of twists and turn, A Forsaken Friend is more diva lit than chick lit it, and follows the lives of best friends Teri Meyer and Lee Harper as they navigate the ups-and-downs of their friendship whilst also juggling men, careers and family.

Published on March 21, A Forsaken Friend is currently available to pre-order on Amazon for just 99p. And you can pick up a copy A Falling Friend, the first novel in our Friends trilogy, free on Amazon until March 26.

Don’t forget to head over to Lakewater Press and read why Teri needs a bigger towel here.

Meet the authors: behind the scenes as we prepare for a talk at Burley library

09 Monday Oct 2017

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Susan (second left) and Sue (fourth left) with early arrivals at Burley library on Saturday.

PG Wodehouse hit the nail on the head: a reporter wants to interview one of his characters in Bachelor’s Anonymous. ‘I hate talking about myself,’ wails the diffident hero.

‘I dare say,’ ripostes the reporter, ‘but you’ve got to when you’re being interviewed.’

Ditto when you’ve agreed to deliver a talk to a group of readers.

And there’s the rub: Susan and I have spent our working lives in the wings, encouraging people to talk to us rather than spouting about ourselves.

It takes a bit of a mental shift to switch from being the person asking the questions to the person giving all the answers. Continue reading →

News: Meet the Authors – we’re launching a new event at local community library

05 Thursday Oct 2017

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We’re delighted to be the first novelists to appear at a new event launched by Burley-in-Wharfedale Library.

It’s Meet the Author – although, of course, it will be ‘authors’ plural in our case – and we’d be really pleased if any of our Northern Facebook and Twitter friends and followers could come and join us. Continue reading →

News: Celebrate Yorkshire Day with Grit, an anthology from Yorkshire writers

01 Tuesday Aug 2017

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GritIt’s Yorkshire Day so a good day to celebrate Grit, a new compilation of short stories by Yorkshire writers.

Michael Yates, who put this anthology together, drew mainly from writers workshops in Wakefield and Pontefract.

The invitation was to write a short story of no more than 5,000 words and there was no theme.

In all, 14 writers – including me – contributed.

Our stories are not all set in Yorkshire but writer and broadcaster Ian Clayton, who wrote the foreword, hopes readers will find a pattern.

‘It’s a bit like making your way down a path made from crazy paving, each piece with its own tale to tell, but also fitting where perhaps it’s not supposed to, to tell a bigger story.’

Grit will be launched during Wakefield Literary Festival on Saturday, September 23, when contributors will be reading from their stories in Wakefield Central Library on Burton Street 11am-1pm.

Admission is free and there will be a ten per cent discount off the £10 cover price for anyone attending.

Hope to see you there.

By Sue Featherstone.

News: Close to home is best when it comes to living and working in the North

25 Tuesday Jul 2017

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We’re often invited to take part in and contribute to other writer’s websites and we’re always delighted to be interviewed, asked to talk about books or write about writing.

So it was great to be invited by blogger and reviewer Jo Barton to take part in her Close to Home feature.

Sue appeared on the spot earlier this year and my turn came this week when I was able to write about living and working in the North – particularly Yorkshire.

There’s so much to say about this part of the world and I could have written a book about everything on offer here, but I managed to edit myself – and you can read the result here:

http://jaffareadstoo.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/close-to-homesusan-pape.html

Jo’s been blogging for six years and supports writers in a number of ways, including writing book reviews and running blog tours. Her overall aim is to promote books and reading – which we thoroughly approve of.

She says she’s usually found curled up with a book – with Jaffa, the cat, close by. See what the two of them get up to here:

http://jaffareadstoo.blogspot.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

News: Book Lovers’ Booklist is one today

22 Saturday Jul 2017

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A Falling Friend book coverHappy Birthday to us!

It’s one year today since we launched the Book Lovers’ Booklist.

We’ve had bundles of fun reading, reviewing and writing about books.

And we’ve made some wonderful new friends right across the book blogging community – authors, bloggers and readers.

We’re very grateful for your support and encouragement.

So, Susan and I are celebrating our first blogging year with a giveaway of our first novel A Falling Friend.

For the next three days we’ll give away three copies of A Falling Friend each day.

Just click the link  here and hit the like button to go into a draw to win one of three free copies.

Closing date: midnight on July 24.

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