BOOKWORMS AND VILLAINS

This week I have produced several short Book Trailers for my novels in The Secondhand Bookworm series. This first one is for Book 1 - The Secondhand Bookworm. Book Trailers are great for a quick visual encounter with your book. Book Trailer for the first in a series of novels set in a used and antiquarian bookshop in a little Sussex town, based on 10 years of book selling, guaranteed to raise a few chuckles. In this feel-good debut novel (book 1 of 6 available so far - Jan 2020) readers will enjoy entering the world of secondhand book-selling in a quaint eccentric town on the south coast of England.   UK Amazon link 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 litera

BOOK CLUB AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM BOOK 7 IN THE SERIES This week I shall be working on book 7 in my bookshop series of novels - BOOK CLUB AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM - which continues on from Black Friday. Nora and the Duke of Cole are now dating, the book club takes place in the front room of The Secondhand Bookworm in Castletown on Thursday evenings over seven weeks, and of course, mishaps and bookworm chaos ensues. For this novel I have tried a different format which will be a one off, letting the story unfold over seven weeks instead of six days. It's been interesting covering Christmas and the New Year in one novel and focusing on twelve specific characters for the Book Club, where I have been able to develop some particular customers who have featured through the series: CROSSWORD-LADY (who insists that Nora is actually the actress Gina McKee) SPENCER BROWN (whom Nora is convinced turns into a vampire bat) AMY (a new member of staff) MISS RAVEN (the daughter