Showing posts with label Launch Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Launch Day. Show all posts

Monday, 17 December 2012

Author Showcase - Glynis Smy




Author of 'Ripper, My Love', Glynis Smy, is celebrating the launch of her second novel today. 'Maggie’s Child' has been born into the world of ebook and paperback.

 
When farmer’s wife Maggie Sawbury gives birth to her fifth child, the only one that has lived and the result of an extra-marital affair, she is heartbroken and desperate. Maggie knows her joyless life with a bully of a husband is not one a child should endure, and she leaves the baby at the roadside to be found by passers-by.
Her money-driven husband announces he has found her another job in the village of Redgrave, aside from the many tasks she has on Windtop farm. He is totally unaware the position comes with a secret. One that frightens and yet brings joy to Maggie. She is to become wet-nurse to her abandoned child.
Love, and the possibility of incest, threaten to open old wounds, and Maggie has several decisions to make. However, will they be the right ones? If she tells all she knows, it will bring about the destruction of three families. Equally, her silence could be just as destructive. She shares her secret with another, the result changes her life, and a death brings with it more secrets. Will Maggie stay or will she walk away and find the love she craves?
 
The ebook will be available at a Christmas - New Year price of 99c via Amazon
Want to win a paperback copy?
If you can tell Glynis the name of the prostitute friend in her novel, Ripper, My Love, you will be put into a draw for a prize copy of 'Maggie’s Child' in paperback format. The email address you need to send the answer to can be found in the sidebar of NEW BOOK BLOGGER.
 

 
Glynis Smy, (nee Honeycombe), was born and raised in the coastal town of Dovercourt, near Harwich, in the county of Essex, England. She married her school sweetheart, Peter, in 1979 and they produced three amazing children, Darren, Nicola, and Emma. The long hours of a nursing career, and running two pharmacies ended in 2005, when she and her husband moved from the UK to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Glynis spends her time writing historical novels, poetry and various other projects. When she is not tapping at the keyboard she makes greeting cards to sell for charity, or enjoys a spot of cross-stitch on the back porch. Failing that, she and friends sit chewing the fat over a glass of village wine.

To find out more about Glynis’s books: Books by Glynis Smy
Meet and Tweet with Glynis:. @Ghunibee
Facebook Page: Glynis Smy
Author Blog: Glynis Smy

 

Thursday, 8 December 2011

Less than a week to go!

Next Wednesday, the 14th December, is a big day for celebration here at Horton HQ. It’s the day a project very close to my heart, my new ebook ‘Reaching for the Stars’ gets its official send off into the digital stratosphere. How far it shoots - to the stars, to the moon, or just as far as a quick pop and fizz is as yet unknown - but I do know that I am very excited and extremely proud that Reaching for the Stars is finally out there. So on Wednesday there will be a 'Wish I Was Here...' photo of the place I'd like to escape to, there will be both real and virtual champagne, there will be lots of blogging and tweeting and social commenting - and mostly (did I mention the champagne...?) - there will be plenty of fun fun fun!

If you do decide to buy Reaching for the Stars (from Amazon now at the very special launch price of just 95p or $1.48) not only will I love you for it but I will hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Currently, Reaching for the Stars is with its advance readers and selected book bloggers. I’m keeping everything crossed that they will like it and will give it some ‘stars’ of their own. Well, we can only wait and see about that....

What’s it all about...?

Reaching for the Stars is about a Scottish celebrity chef called Finn McDuff who is media stalked and disillusioned after winning his third star and losing his third wife. He decides he’s had enough of all the food campaigns, the TV cookery shows, the constant frenzy surrounding his private life and, after giving up all his accolades and closing down his restaurant, he disappears. With the enfant terrible of the kitchen missing, two rival newspapers, having lost their media meal ticket, compete against each other to whip up further public curiosity in the missing chef. Love him or hate him, everyone is out looking for Chef McDuff. Who will find him first and whose side will you be on...?


This is the list so far of participating ‘Wish I Was Here..’ bloggers and tweeters on Wednesday 14th December (links are now live - just click on participant)

There will be fun prize draw on the day:
Prizes are - a Celebrity Chef Apron and several Chef’s Hats!


Please note: Prizes will be awarded at random in a fair draw system to include all participants who blog a ‘Wish I Was Here...’ picture, tweet a picture using #starchef, re-tweet any participating tweet using #starchef, or comment in the comment box on this blog on Wednesday 14th December). Simples fun!

It’s not too late to sign up - just use the form at the bottom of this post and join the fun.

@Chanteuse1019
@jolambertwriter
@annormond
@eema2emma
@midnitemurmurer
@KIRKWOODGWEN
@LinnBHalton
@GillStewart2
@lackyjadbury
@smbslt
@stephaniekeyes
@mandybaggot
@henrigyland
@harperjenny


Not sure what to do?

1) Sign up now using the form above. Want a shot at both blogging and tweeting? Why not - double the fun - just fill in both your Twitter name and your Blog Link.

2) On Wednesday 14th December just put up a photo or picture of where you wish you could escape to - for a little while or forever - on YOUR blog or UPLOAD to Twitter! It might be a paradise island, a secluded beach, a woodland hut, a mountain ski lodge? The possibilities are endless - but fun to imagine right in the middle of December

3) On Twitter please use the hashtag #starchef and also put @JaniceHorton somewhere in the tweet. That way I can find you and include you in the prize draw.

On Launch Day I'll be visiting EVERYONE's LINKS to see where you would like to escape to and to leave a comment! So join the fun and sign up now!

I know it’s a busy time of year for everyone but I would so appreciate your support - and I do promise lots of fun and prizes!

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Party On...!


I’m excited to tell you that on Wednesday 14th December - which is the official Launch Day of my new novel Reaching for the Stars - I’m hosting a themed on line party here on my blog!

What’s the theme I hear you ask?

Well, in ‘Reaching for the Stars’ the main character Chef Finn McDuff feels he's had enough of all the food campaigns, the TV cookery shows, the constant frenzy surrounding his private life and disappears into a self-imposed exile for a while.

So, the theme of Launch Day is therefore 'Wish I Was Here...'

On Wednesday 14th December just put up a photo or picture on YOUR BLOG of where you wish you could escape to - for a little while - or forever! It might be a paradise island, a secluded beach, a woodland hut, a mountain ski lodge? The possibilities are endless - but fun to imagine right in the middle of December!

Then On Launch Day I will post a full list of all the blogs taking part and I'll be visiting all the blogs to see where YOU would like to escape to and to leave a comment!

I'd love it if you would consider taking part. All you need to do at this stage is submit your email and blog address into the form below.

On the day itself you can pop along too to see where everyone wishes they where if you wish, but there is no obligation to do so.

I really appreciate all your support.

I know it’s a busy time of year for everyone and so I want you to know how much I will appreciate your support. Please sign up now to take part in this fun blog party. All blogfesters will be included in a draw for super pwizes on the day!

If for any reason you don't want to use the form then please leave your blog address in the comments box instead - or email me at: janice.horton@btinternet.com and I'll be happy to add you to the list manually.

Friday, 24 June 2011

This week's Special Event!


Loveahappyending.com is celebrating its official launch on Wednesday 29th June.

It’s all happening on line - which means wherever you are in the world you can pop over to www.loveahappyending.com and wish all our authors and associate readers lots of luck and success with this new exciting interactive venture.

Interactive means everyone can take part - so why not enter one or more of our giveaways or consider buying one of our loveahappyending author’s books? Why not contact us with an an offer to review one of our books and take part in our regular The Review Chair feature? Click here for more information on The Review Chair.
 
We’ve romantic fiction and biographies, children’s books, saga and crime, poetry and short story collections: there is something for everyone at www.loveahappyending.com

During the run up to launch day and until the end of July - to celebrate my association with this exciting and innovative reader/writer website I have reduced the price of my e-book Bagpipes and Bullshot on Amazon to 90p - yes, just ninety pence! Click to download from Amazon.UK or Amazon.Com.

 

NOW just 90p on Amazon!

ON LAUNCH DAY

Bagpipes & Bullshot is being reviewed in The Review Chair’ by Associate Reader Kim ‘The Bookworm’ Nash and discussed with loveahappyending editor Ceri Autelli.

Also, as a Pisces author, I am being interviewed by Sharon Goodwin on what will be another regular ‘astrology based’ interview feature on loveahappyending.com - Shaz’s Stars’.

AND I'm giving away - yes, giving away SIX COPIES of my e-book Bagpipes & Bullshot. For more info on how to enter the giveaway: click here.

For all of this - and more - visit www.loveahappyending.com on Wednesday 29th June 2011