The Cinderella Debutante

My next Regency romance The Cinderella Debutante will be published by E-scape Press on 24th September 2012!

This release is particularly exciting as it's one of two books launching E-scape's new imprint Ballgown Books which will feature historical and contemporary stories.

The Cinderella Debutante is a light-hearted Regency romance based on the Cinderella story but with a few twists.  Don't ya just love Cinderella-themed stories?! :0)

Here's the blurb:

Lucy Sinclair’s London Season was cut short by tragedy. Now, five years later, she is returning but only in the shadow of her lovely step-sister. Belinda is determined to catch a titled husband and Alex, Lord Devlyn fits the bill perfectly.

Lucy finds Alex devastatingly attractive yet knows he will be dazzled by Belinda’s beauty. It seems her one chance of love is lost forever until an unlikely fairy godmother makes Lucy the belle of the ball...
 

I hope readers will enjoy.  The Cinderella Debutante is unashamedly sprinkled with oodles of wish-fulfillment fairy dust *g*  

Look out for more details, links, giveaways and a new E-scape website for Ballgown Books soon. 

Other news: the e-book edition of Ice Angel is finally out.  


Ice Angel is Book #1 in the Cavanagh family series and the prequel to A Bright Particular Star, although both books can easily be read as stand-alone. 

Ice Angel can be purchased from   Amazon.com,  Amazon UK, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Waterstones and other on-line outlets. 

New release and free download offer!

Yay, my new Regency novel published by Astraea Press - A Bright Particular Star - will be released a little earlier than expected on 5th April 2012!  I'm so looking forward to this novel being 'out there'; I really love the story and characters so fingers crossed readers will too :)

Keep checking back on my web-site, blog, Facebook page etc. over the next few days...I'll be uploading excerpts and teasers before the big day.  

Although it can be read as a stand-alone, A Bright Particular Star features characters from a previous book, Ice Angel, so look out for the Kindle edition of that when it releases in the summer.

And for three days only - Sat 31st March, Sun 1st April, Monday 2nd April - my short story collection Midsummer Eve at Rookery End is available for FREE download from Amazon. 

Hurry and get your copy before 2nd April!

Hurry, your last chance to win....

...free downloads of Brief Encounters!

Don't forget there are three free downloads of Brief Encounters to be won over at the Brief Encounters blog.  All you have to do post a comment about a brief encounter that you may have had. It might be with someone famous, a funny incident, something sad, something romantic - anything goes as long as it's memorable!  Just post before midnight GMT on 22nd May to have a chance to win :0)

Midsummer Eve at Rookery End - Ebook at 50% discount

Now here's a great offer!  As part of ‘Read an E-book’ week, 6-12th March, E-scape Press are offering a 50% discount on all their E-books purchased through Smashwords.

Follow the link below to buy Midsummer Eve at Rookery End - simply add the promotion code ‘RAE50′ at the checkout during the above dates :0)

Midsummer Eve at Rookery End

Brief Encounters - Judge the Cover Poll

Vote! by Gil Elvgren

As mentioned in my previous post, a collection of short stories by me, Phillipa Ashley and Nell Dixon will be coming out later this spring.  The stories (published by E-scape Press and entitled Brief Encounters) are a fantastic mix of contemporary and historical shorts which we hope our readers will love!

At the Brief Encounters blog we are running a poll on potential covers and we'd like our readers to comment and vote for their favourite image.  The poll will be open until midnight on Saturday (GMT) and as an extra bonus, Nell will choose a random commentor to receive a PDF copy of her latest release, Making Waves. 

Please pop over to the blog and vote - we want to hear what you think! :0)

Happy Valentine's Day and Launch of Brief Encounters

Here's some very exciting news for Valentine's Day – a brand new short story collection called Brief Encounters will be published by E-scape Press this spring.

It’s a collection of six fun, romantic stories written by the members of the Coffee Crew – Nell Dixon, Phillipa Ashley and me. I hope you're going to love them.  You can read all about the new collection on the new Brief Encounters blog here - do pop over and leave a comment!