BOOKWORMS AND VILLAINS

  The Secondhand Bookworm series - April 2023 Kindle sales so far for The Secondhand Bookworm series of novels this month have been rising with 18 books sold on Kindle and over 1000 pages read with Kindle Unlimited, too. April 2023 has been a really fun month for The Secondhand Bookworm series of novels. All profits from sales go to Mary's Dowry Productions, my co-shared film apostolate, which is wonderful because this month we bought a simple brown peasant farmer's apron for use in our film presentation of Saint Dymphna, filmed at the bluebell woods in Clapham, West Sussex. We produced biographical films about little known English Saints and Martyrs as well as interesting and inspiring historical figures, especially women and popular Saints from around the world. While I write the series of novels for my own enjoyment, for work colleagues at the real bookshop I ran for ten years (I left in 2012 to do film media full-time) and for my sister, they are available for friends, fami...

LOCKDOWN AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM I was pleased to finish my manuscript for book 9 in my series of novels this week: Lockdown at The Secondhand Bookworm - which is currently being proof-read ready for publishing. I had a lovely time immersing myself in Nora's world which saw her and her bookshop collages go into Lockdown for six months and deal with the world of bookselling during a pandemic. I kept the story light-hearted and amusing, interesting and pleasant, with various scenarios and developments in the stories and the series. The book will be available soon - meanwhile, I have started work on book 10 - Strange Things at The Secondhand Bookworm. All of my books are available to read on Kindle through Amazon. I have made them available in paperback, too. While my audience is my bookshop colleagues and friends, I have made them available for anyone interested to enjoy too. Look for Emily Jane Bevans in books, or The Secondhand Bookworm for the series - available worldwide.

 Why I chose the name Nora in 2008 The Secondhand Bookworm series of books is a run of fictional novels set in a Secondhand and antiquarian bookshop on the South coast of England. The fictional setting is Castletown, a lovely historic place with a ruined castle (books one and two) and a rebuilt castle/estate as home to the Duke of Cole (book 3 onwards). The county of Cole is a fictional county on the south coast of England. The main protagonist is Nora Jolly. The books follow Nora as she journey's through her bookselling, bookshop managing, book buying, book customer adventures in the rickety old building comprising of three floors and rooms and rooms full of books upon books upon books. And more books! I started the series in 2008 for my bookshop colleagues, based upon our experiences running three second hand bookshops at that time. I started work at the bookshop in 2002 and left in 2012 with a wealth of experience and memories. Originally I compiled stories of hilarious and not-...

The Paperback Room Featured throughout my series of novels 'The Secondhand Bookworm' is the paperback room. Located on the top floor of the rambling, three floor bookshop The Secondhand Bookworm, situated in the fictional Castletown in the County of Cole, the paperback room houses several thousand paperback novels in categories and in alphabetical order. In real life, this was a very popular room, but also one that people moaned about reaching. It took two full flights of stairs to get to. But it was always worth the climb. In my fictional series of novels the paperback room features regularly. It is often a source of amusement or irritation, a place to meet locals, a place to spend hours tidying and sorting (such as with Paperback Pam) or a place to run up to as fast of possible and search the shelves for requested titles. In book 7 in The Secondhand Bookworm 'Book Club at The Secondhand Bookworm', the story opens with a new part-time member of staff who spends the who...

 Originally written in 2008 for my bookshop colleagues, this second volume in The Secondhand Bookworm series was updated in 2017 and is currently part of an expanding 8 volume series of fun, clean, easy read novels set in an eccentric English bookshop in fictional Castletown. Having run a secondhand and antiquarian bookshop on the south coast of England for ten years, between 2002-2012, the novels draw upon an often exaggerated (for more fun) wealth of experience buying and selling books in a three floored rambling bookshop to the interesting breed known as bookworms, book collectors, book bargain hunters or just book readers. The novels are all available on Amazon Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and paperback, through my choice of Amazon printing on demand and instant download. As of April 2023, I am almost ready to publish book 9 in the series - Lockdown at The Secondhand Bookworm - which has been written over the past several years as I have been busy with other projects. Each book in ...