I’m really excited about this week’s Writer Top Tens – they’re by two brilliant writers, Scott Mariani and Matt Haig, who have new vampire novels out. They’re brilliant reads and both are a totally new approach to the whole vampire phenomenon. I can’t recommend them highly enough so put them both on your summer reading list!
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Wonderful Weekends
Now, I know I said in my last post that I don’t mind working weekends but the last two have been the exception. Yesterday, I had a trip to the National Portrait Gallery to meet the lovely author, Jane Odiwe. Jane writes Austen sequels and I love her novel, Willoughby’s Return. We met in the gorgeous gallery shop and then visited the tiny portrait of Jane Austen by her sister, Cassandra.
It was then on to meet another Austen author, Amanda Grange, whose books, Darcy’s Diary and Mr Darcy, Vampyre are huge bestsellers and thumping good reads! Here’s a pic of us all. We all share the same US publisher, Sourcebooks, and it was really lovely to meet up at last.
Another weekend treat was seeing a true hero of mine in concert - Chris Isaak! I’ve been a huge fan of Chris’s for years and love his music. He was performing songs from his new album, Mr Lucky, and lots of the old favourites too like San Francisco Days and Wicked Game. As readers of Molly’s Millions might remember, my hero, Tom Mackenzie, is a big Chris Isaak fan too!
Here he is in his fabulous glitterball suit!
Writer Top Tens and Days Out!
One of the great things about being a writer is that you can arrange your timetable to your own liking. For example, I don’t mind working through weekends so I can take the odd day off during the week and that’s exactly what I did last week with a trip to London Zoo.
Here’s a pic of the gorgeous giraffes at the zoo:
and a very cute quati:
My writer pals and I had a perfect summer’s day and I think we all enjoyed the opportunity to get away from the keyboard for a while.
Another mid-week treat was our first trip of the year to the south coast where Molly and I chilled out in the sand dunes whilst the husband painted.
Well, it’s back to the keyboard now and my page proofs for A Weekend with Mr Darcy. It’s so exciting to have these as it really does look like a book now. Only three months to go before publication…
Another two fabulous Writer Top Tens this week: Julia Golding and Jo Cotterill who both have new books out.