Hit Lit Pro...

Hit Lit Pro is an exciting and innovative new venture with just ten carefully selected authors on its exclusive list.  I’m thrilled and excited to tell you that I am one of the authors being represented by Hit Lit Pro and this venture coincides with the month that I celebrate my tenth year as a published novelist!

 

  

Hit Lit Pro has contracted the prestigious book promotion company Candlelit Author Services to champion its authors with an exciting year long promotional campaign.

 Hit Lit Pro will be posting HERE about:

* How to become a no. 1 fan and we'll put YOU in the spotlight

*Competitions to win free ecopies of some great books

* How to join in and send us your reviews to air on our new FB page

* 'Ask the author' will allow you to discover more about the stories you will read and love and MUCH more to come!

If you can't wait and want to get involved in supporting our fabulous authors, then email Suzanne Carlisle at hitlitpro@gmail.com.

We'll be sending out Tweets and posts to keep you up to date and make sure you don't miss a thing!

Hit Lit Pro has a new Facebook Page and a Twitter Profile

Hit Lit Pro has been teasing everyone with its posts on social media and attracting an enthusiastic following:

“We have ten author places - whose faces do you think might be smiling back at you on launch day? Beginning on 20 June 2014 we will be revealing two faces from our line-up of authors each day. Tick tock, tick tock ...”

“Welcome to all our fabulous new followers - it's great to 'meet' you! We will be having a five day launch, so look out for some exciting posts on 20, 23, 24, 25 and 26 June 2014! We will be revealing two authors each day as we kick off our exciting, year-long project. There will be competitions and chances for readers to get involved ... and there will be prizes! Can coolers with our fab logo, mugs and ... lots of books!”

 You can pop over to host Book Blogger Lost in Chick Lit to read my own special Hit Lit Pro launch day interview HERE

You can enter fabulous Rafflecopter prize draws at the CandleLit Launch Tour Page

including

Get Yourself Sketched As Your Favourite Book Character By Harry Potter Illustrator! 

and

Win A Complete Set Of Author Services from CandleLit Author Services

 

  

You are invited to join the launch party at Hit Lit Pro where the other nine selected authors will be revealed on 20, 23, 24, 25 and 26 June 2014! HERE

See you over there!

Janice xx

Author Showcase – Carol E. Wyer

Carol E. Wyer is an award winning author whose humorous novels take a light-hearted look at getting older and encourage others to age disgracefully. Her best-selling debut novel 'Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines' won five awards including Readers Views Reviewers Choice 2012 Award (category - humour) and was selected as a finalist for both the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the Indie Excellence Awards 2012.

'Surfing in Stilettos' which follows the further adventures of Amanda Wilson as she attempts to inject some fun into her life, is a Costa Award nominee. Carol recently signed a two book deal with ThornBerry Publishing. She is a fellow featured author at loveahappyending.com.

 

 

Janice, thank you very much indeed for letting me monopolise your blog today. I am sorry that I had to bring Hubby along, but as you can see, he has made a valiant effort and worn a tartan kilt, although I’m not sure which clan that is supposed to represent. I’ll just sit him down with a copy of the FT and an iPod to keep him occupied.

I am super excited about the eBook launch of Surfing in Stilettos today. It is a momentous occasion for me and I am so grateful and delighted that ThornBerry Publishing have welcomed me to their team. I feel like I have reached an important milestone in my journey to become a recognised author. I have been very fortunate to be interviewed now quite a few times and I am starting to wonder what else I can possibly tell you about me that would be interesting and entertaining. Throughout my blogging life I have worn my heart on my sleeve and shared every funny instance I can think of from my false teeth falling out into my school lunch in front of my latest boyfriend, to getting Hubby deliberately stopped by security when we went away recently so I could smuggle my iPad away and stay on-line even though I was supposed to be resting my eyes. (He can’t hear me through those headphones can he?)

I have always managed to look at life, not through rose-coloured glasses, but probably multi-coloured spotted ones that squirt water at people. I’m not quite sure how I got my sense of humour but I know that every day I ensure that I smile at something. Life is a serious business; ask Hubby, so I think it’s vital to inject some humour or light-heartedness into it as often as possible. Music is great for lifting the spirits so I always put on Smooth Seventies at some point and sing along to one of those old classics. I always have an emergency supply of old classic comedies too and I make it my mission to find a joke a day. Luckily, the internet is full of little gems. Yesterday I found myself chuckling at this one which reviewer Cathy Speight shared: “My mate just hired an Eastern European cleaner, took her 15 hours to hoover the house. Turns out she was a Slovak.”

My mother and father shared a good sense of humour and were always up to mischief. My mother is still getting up to it, even though she is almost eighty now. She, like Amanda’s mother in my novels, is partying her twilight years away in Cyprus, although I don’t think she has tried pole dancing. Well, not to my knowledge. I love the sound of laughter and I truly believe that laughter is a medicine. I lived next door to someone who taught laughter courses. I attended one once. We had to laugh at each other. It was lunacy, or so I thought; but before long we were convulsed with laughter at the stupidity of what we were doing. Believe it or not, even if you have to force yourself to laugh to start with, you will genuinely end up laughing properly. And, you’ll feel great afterwards.

My novels always have a lot of humour in them and Surfing in Stilettos is no exception. I have three more novels planned and have started work on two of them. My master plan is eventually to be recognised as a humorous writer. I am very proud of Surfing in Stilettos. It is already nominated for some awards including a Costa so I have hopes for it. Thanks to ThornBerry Publishing it is available today from Amazon.

If I might I’d like to put in a plug for my big launch party at my blog today where there are some fabulous prizes and gifts to be won, along with some secrets about the novel. Please drop by and say hello later. Thank you again Janice. I’ll drag Hubby away with me now to continue with his chauffeuring duties. He still has lots of driving to do today!

 

Carol’s Links:

Amazon UK Author Page

Amazon US Author Page

Website

loveahappyending.com

Thornberry Publishing

Blog

Facebook

Twitter

And: As as a necessary part of Carol's fabulous Surfing in Stilettos Blog party today I'd like to display my own very favourite heels!

And yes, those are my legs and the tattoo is real too!

 

 

 

 

Grand Finale of the Blog Tour...!

Today I’m over at Talli Roland’s blog making you a very special Scottish Christmas cake!

Click here to go to Talli’s Blog

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy Hogmanay from here in Scotland. I’ll be back on January 6th and will be blogging every Friday. I have some fabulous authors and new books to showcase in the New Year and will be back to discussing everything of interest in the wonderful world of books.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hogmanay!

Love, Janice xx

Blog Tour - Day Eight - Love Reading Love Books!

Book Blogger and Reviewer Sue Fortin is an Associate Reader with Loveahappyending.com as well as being a Featured Author for her debut novel French Kissing in the UK. She is also part of the indie author group Famous Five Plus and a member of the Romantic Novelist Association New Writers Scheme.

Today on her blog - Love Reading Love Books - Sue reviews Reaching for the Stars, asks her bookshelf questions, and talks to me about the promotion and the launch of my new ebook Reaching for the Stars.

Love Reading Love Books

Just in case you missed any of the 'Reaching for the Stars' Blog Stops so far, I've listed and provided links to all fabulous blogs who have hosted me for news, reviews & interviews... have fun!

Lou Grahams Book Blog
Lou interviews the two main characters in Reaching for the Stars...!

Melanie Robertson King’s Celtic Connexions Blog

‘Celebrity Chefs – culinary pirates and adventurers of the chrome surfaces…!’

Jera’s Jamboree Book Blog

I’m talking to Sharon Goodwin about the extensive culinary research I did for Reaching for the Stars.

Debs Daydreams in the Plotting Shed Blog

In the plotting shed I’m talking about my life as a writer living in rural Scotland and showing you my favourite places to write.

High Heels & Book Deals Blog

On High Heels & Book Deals Blog - I’m showing off my very favourite shoes!

Sarah Taylor’s Today I'm Reading Blog

For an author interview and a review.

Reabookreviews Blog

A review of Reaching for the Stars...!

Turning the Pages

A review plus I'm talking about when I find the time to write.

Kim the Bookworm Blog

On Kim The Bookworm there is a review and we talk about the settings for my novels.

Just one more exciting blog stop to go on the Reaching for the Stars tour - so please do pop back tomorrow to find out where I am next!

Love, Janice x