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I’m delighted to see A Weekend with Mr Darcy and The Perfect Hero are the bestselling ebooks in Waterstone’s Romance chart this week. It’s so exciting to see them together and I hope that you all enjoy the third book too. Mr Darcy Forever has just been released on Kindle as an ebook exclusive.
I can’t tell you how much fun it was to write this trilogy and it means the world to me to see them doing so well especially this week as it is 200 years since Jane Austen’s first book was published. Happy Birthday, Sense and Sensibility!
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Thank you to all my lovely readers who helped to give my new book, Mr Darcy Forever, such a fabulous launch yesterday. It’s shot up the Amazon Kindle chart and features in three different genre charts – a great start!
I’ve had a lot of emails from readers about the new book and I’d just like to explain – at the moment, Mr Darcy Forever is exclusively published in ebook form. It’s available to readers all over the world excluding the US where it will have a paperback and ebook release (with a brand new cover) in April 2012.
Mr Darcy Forever is the third in my Jane Austen addicts’ trilogy and I’ve been delighted with the recent success of the first two books. Last week, A Weekend with Mr Darcy sold over 1,000 ebook copies and it’s been in the Amazon Kindle Top 100 chart for two weeks. The Perfect Hero is doing well too and is in the Top 20 Waterstone’s ebook chart. It’s lovely to know that there are so many Austen fans out there!
If you’d like to know more about the book, take a look at the Mr Darcy Forever page where you can read an excerpt. There is also a page of photos of some of the locations. The book is set in two stunning locations - Devon and Bath – and I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures.
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This Friday, I’ll be launching the third book in my Jane Austen addicts’ trilogy – Mr Darcy Forever. It’s going to be published on Kindle as an ebook in the UK and paperback publication is following in the US in April 2012.
Mr Darcy Forever is about two estranged sisters who meet at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath but can the magic of Jane Austen help to bring them back together again?
The first two books in the trilogy - A Weekend with Mr Darcy and The Perfect Hero – have both been topping the Waterstone’s and Amazon Kindle charts and I’m delighted to be releasing the third book in time to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s first publication, Sense and Sensibility.
So, please come and join the online book launch on Friday 28th October. It’ll be taking place at my Facebook fan page and, if you ‘like’ the page and leave a message, you’ll be entered into a draw to win a signed copy of the US version of A Weekend with Mr Darcy (that’s the cover with the famous legs on it!)
See you on Friday!
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If you’d like a chance to win one of three copies of my new book, The Perfect Hero, along with Sue Welfare’s latest book, A Surprise Party, hurry along to Chicklit Reviews!
Yesterday, I finally finished the first draft of my new book, Mr Darcy Forever. This is the third in my Jane Austen addicts trilogy and it feels funny to come to the end of it. There will be edits, of course, but I feel like it’s the end of an era.
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Last week, I was sent a sneak preview of the cover for my new book, The Perfect Hero, and it’s gorgeous! It’s in the same style as the cover for A Weekend with Mr Darcy and I can’t wait to show it to you here. Just a few more tweaks at the publishers and I can reveal it to the world!
I’m currently writing the third in the Austen addicts trilogy, Mr Darcy Forever, and have just reached the half-way point which is always an exciting moment. I have some pretty tight deadlines this year so I won’t be leaving my keyboard for the forseeable future!
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As some of you know, I’m writing a trilogy about Jane Austen addicts and I’m enjoying it immensely. It’s also keeping me very busy and – at the moment – I’m actually writing all three books at once!
The first in the series, A Weekend with Mr Darcy, came out in the UK in September but I’ve just been sent through the line edits from my US publisher so I’m going through it again for them for publication in late 2011. The second, which is coming out in the spring in the UK, is now going to be called The Perfect Hero and I’ve just finished all the edits on that. Meanwhile, I’ve just begun writing the third, Mr Darcy Forever. I’m about 20,000 words into that and it’s proving great fun although I’m writing it totally out of sequence!
So there you go – three books at once! Oh, and I’ve just written a synopsis for a totally unrelated project too!
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Last night, I attended a very special book launch to celebrate ‘dark fiction’. Oxford University Press authors Joss Stirling, Rhiannon Lassiter and William Hussey were giving readings from their new spine-chilling books at The House of St Barnabas in Soho (doesn’t that sound like an Edgar Allan Poe title?)
Here I am with the wonderful Joss Stirling, author of Finding Sky:
And here’s William reading from his book Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight which comes out in January. Notice the enormous spider sitting on his shoulder!
It’s been a busy week as we’ve just come back from a lovely holiday in Guernsey and I promise to put some photos up asap. In the meantime, I’ve just started my new novel – yay! This is the third in my Austen addicts trilogy – Mr Darcy Forever – and I’m very excited about it. I love the start of a new novel – it’s so full of promise and surprise as it could go in so many different directions and I adore getting to know my characters.
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I can’t believe how quickly the summer is passing and I can’t believe how bad the weather has been! Still, there’s been a lot of fun like the brilliant day I met up with writer friend, Deborah Wright, last week. We visited the beautiful Wallace Collection in London and then had a picnic in Hyde Park before taking a ride out on the lake in a pedalo. It was great fun but suprisingly hard work and I’d like to report that the two dodgem-style incidents were due to the lack of skill in others and had nothing to do with us!
The writing has been going well too and I’ve just finished the second book in my Austen addicts trilogy, Dreaming of Mr Darcy. This is the one set in lovely Lyme Regis and I had so much fun researching it. The next one, Mr Darcy Forever, will be set in Bath and I’m looking forward to spending a few days there next month when the Jane Austen Festival is in full swing.
And the big news is that we’ll be welcoming home some feathered friends in the autumn. We’re rehoming some ex-battery hens via the amazing British Hen Welfare Trust. I’ve been wanting to keep chickens for ages and can’t wait to welcome them to our little patch of suburbia. It’ll be like a scene from The Good Life here!
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