BOOKWORMS AND VILLAINS

Today's post - December 29th 2017 NORA AND THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM I am actually amazed at how much work goes into preparing a novel for release on Amazon kindle and in paperback! I have literally spent a good couple of weeks sorting out Book Two in my bookwormy-bookshop series of novels for upload in order for it to be a nicely presented edition in both digital and paperback forms. I am an obsessive perfectionist when it comes to this part as I like the editions to be presented as visually good as possible. Fortunately the majority of this volume was complete as I had published it privately for my work colleagues back in 2012, although I wrote it in 2010. But I made numerous changes, cut out some characters, had a shuffle about and some rewrites and am thrilled with the finished result. I have been determined to have Book One and Book Two in my 'Bookworm' series of novels released and available in 2017 so the pressure has been on as we have swiftly approached the ...

NORA AND THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM Book Two of a hilarious series of novels set in an English secondhand bookshop by Emily Jane Bevans Today's post - December 26th 2017 Writing, editing, final preparations I am pleased to have been making good progress with this second novel in my 'bookworm' series, preparing it for release on kindle and in paperback through Amazon and published by Mary's Dowry Productions. Christmas is a rare time for me in that I am able to sit down and force myself not to work on the films of Mary's Dowry Productions but to try and relax. Although writing and novel-editing can be exhausting if I don't discipline myself, it is what I would class as relaxing. So I spent a good few hours on Christmas afternoon immersed in my manuscript after Mass. I wrote the original edition of  Book Two: 'Nora and the Secondhand Bookworm' back in 2009-2010 but published it privately in 2012 for my work colleagues. There was a lot o...

THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM Book One of an hilarious novel set in an English secondhand bookshop In this hilarious, feel-good debut novel readers will enjoy entering the world of secondhand book-selling in a quaint eccentric town on the south coast of England.  Nora works in ‘The Secondhand Bookworm’ – a cosy, winding, labyrinth of a shop with room, upon room, upon room of used and antiquarian books. The week starts normally enough, with a visit from the notorious Ravens (two infamous ladies who leave a deluge of carrier bags behind the counter and argue in whispers), a man who changes his fashion with his literary tastes, a stranded seagull and the remains of the villainous Map-Boy. But as the days pass Nora finds herself battling torrential rain and sandbags, mad Mr Hill who sells his books only to buy them back the next day, an erratic daytime soap actor, a paranoid Polish Count, old ladies en mass waving postcards and demanding stamps, the local Ghostbuster, someone ...

'HOUSE OF VILLAINS' A new gripping novel 'HOUSE OF VILLAINS' blurb: Packed with stunning locations, ruthless villains, murder, mystery, betrayals and bullets, with a sprinkling of romance and humour and plenty of suspense, House of Villains kick starts an epic new series of novels to keep you gripped and guessing. Rachel is the daughter of Signor Samuel Guardarsi, the terrifying billionaire head of a powerful, global criminal Empire. But she has spent most of her life in relative seclusion in her aristocratic mother’s ancestral Estate on the south coast of England at the edge of Southcliff City.  Watched by her father’s loyal men during his three year absence from England, yet finding allies in her dedicated servants and two friends - the ballerina daughter of a former Russian Ambassador, as well as the nephew of her chauffer - Rachel is due to inherit her mother’s lands, titles and deeds when she turns twenty-one in just over a week.  But she has no ...