BOOKWORMS AND VILLAINS

LOCKDOWN AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM You would think that being forced into various states of lockdown since March 2020 an independent film editor, writer and more recently an author of novels set in an eccentric English bookshop would find plenty of time to write - and I actually had planned to have at least six more novels in my bookworm series published by now - but in fact I am still dipping into writing book 9 - Lockdown at The Secondhand Bookworm- and have several more chapters to complete. It's annoying really because I really would like to have written the numerous titles and stories planned but it's not meant to be. Today however, I have been reading through my manuscript hoping to get in some writing over the Christmas holidays which could take me to the finish line, despite the noise, ups and downs of living in a mad house with very noisy people. I would like to share a big section from the first chapter in Lockdown, setting the scene for the story because it describe

In The Secondhand Bookworm used and antiquarian bookshop (Castletown) at Christmas, Nora Jolly and her colleagues prepare the shop for the season. Following the pattern of the previous two novels in the series, we spend a week with Nora as she enjoys all the book-related events, festivities and customers as well as things taking place in her personal life. The Duke is finally introduced. He will eventually be Nora's boyfriend, fiancé and finally husband in the series as it develops. My plan is to have James buy a little shop up the hill, the Fudge Pantry beneath Nora's flat, where Nora will specialise in a specific topic of books. Nora and Cara are due to purchase the two bookshops from Georgina soon after book 9 so an additional bookshop run by Nora in a new location up the hill not far from The Secondhand Bookworm will be fun to write and it's about time Nora gets her own shop. Christmas at The Secondhand Bookworm is book 3 in my bookshop series. The novels are an easy re

November 2021 Fresh from a weekend of recreational designing (last weekend actually) are several NEW covers for my 'The Secondhand Bookworm' series of novels. As a designer (I mostly work on DVD covers for Mary's Dowry Productions) I enjoy refreshing the covers of my novels: The covers I have worked on last weekend are: The Secondhand Bookworm Nora and The Secondhand Bookworm Christmas at The Secondhand Bookworm Summer at The Secondhand Bookworm and Halloween at The Secondhand Bookworm Most of the covers have been updated on Amazon now. I have made the colours brighter and included characters on the front. It embodies the contents better. I started writing the novels back in 2008 for my bookshop colleagues. In about 2014 I continued the series as a hobby. They get better as they go along. While there is romance it is 'friendship romance'. I keep the content clean. The novels look at friendship, work environments and ludicrous customers and scenarios in a bookshop. M