Promo Day Sign Up: A Spell In Provence by Marie Laval

A Spell in Provence by Marie Laval 

Release Date: 5th January2015

Pages: 336

Genres: Contemporary Fiction

With few roots in England and having just lost her job, Amy Carter decides to give up on home and start a new life in France, spending her redundancy package turning an overgrown Provençal farmhouse, Bellefontaine, into a successful hotel.

 

Though she has big plans for her new home, none of them involves falling in love – least of all with Fabien Coste, the handsome but arrogant owner of a nearby château.  As romance blossoms, eerie and strange happenings in Bellefontaine hint at a dark mystery of the Provençal countryside which dates back many centuries and holds an entanglement between the ladies of Bellefontaine and the ducs de Coste at its centre. As Amy works to unravel the mystery, she begins to wonder if it may not just be her heart at risk, but her life too.  

 

Brook Cottage Books is thrilled to be organizing a one day PROMO BLITZ for A Spell in Provence by Marie Laval.  There will be a facebook party on the day! (Link to be included soon)

The promo day will take place on 7th March and will include reviews, interviews and promo posts. Lets have lots of host taking part on 7th March! .  To participate, please email brookbooks@hotmail.co.uk with the following:

• Your Name
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Promo Event Sign Up: Nicky's Rock and Roll Xmas Promo party!

A Fairytale in New York & The Spirits of Christmas
  by Nicky Wells 

Promo Event!!!

Fairy Tale in New York

New York. A restaurant near Park Avenue. It’s early evening, and dusk is falling. So is the snow. Jude and Carrie are only killing time while they wait for their flight to London. They don’t know yet that their life will never be the same.

When rock star Jude gets stranded in New York with his family on Christmas Eve, he has no idea that he is setting in motion a chain of events that will turn their Christmas into the most magical one yet…

No good deed goes unpunished, or so it seems to Jude and Carrie on the morning of the twenty-fourth of December. The previous day, they gave up their London-bound flights to someone in crisis. And now, a spectacular whiteout is grounding all planes, and Jude, Carrie, and baby Maya are stuck far from home.

Tired, hungry, and just a little panicked, Jude loads his family into a cab and returns to their hotel. But there’s no room at the inn, and not even a platinum credit card will make a difference. Snow is falling heavily, and the family is facing a very bleak night indeed.

How do you celebrate Christmas with no place to stay, no food, and no presents? Join Jude, Carrie, Maya and a cast of colourful characters in this fairy tale story of Yuletide in New York.

Fairy Tale in New York is now available in Kindle and paperback editions from all Amazon domains, including: Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com

Spirits of Christmas: A Rock’n’Roll Christmas Carol

At one time, up-and-coming rock singer Jude had it all: a great band, a platinum record, a loving girlfriend. This Christmas, however, he is well down the road towards spontaneous self-destruction.

Unwitting at first, Jude has progressively alienated his band and driven away the love of his life. Tonight, the night before Christmas Eve, he has broken the final taboo during a disastrous gig. Yet Jude doesn’t see how badly his life has derailed, not until a ghostly procession of legends passes through his bedroom with a series of vivid and powerful wake-up calls.

Will the Spirits help Jude put the friendship, love, and rock music back into his Christmas?

Spirits of Christmas is a modern-day rock’n’roll adaption of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. This novella will enchant romance readers, rock lovers, fans of ghost stories, and everybody who adores the festive season.

Brook Cottage Books is thrilled to be organizing a Promo blitz party for Nicky Wells. Her two Christmas novellas will be featured as part of the promo day. The theme is rock and roll Christmas! Hosts can sign up to read one or both of the books for the day. Sign up today. It's going to be a fun day!

The promo party will take place on 20th Dec and will include reviews, interviews, etc. We'd love as many people as possible to sign up! To participate in the promo please email brookbooks@hotmail.co.uk with the following:

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Review: Nice Girls Don't by Sue Barnard

Nice Girls Don't by Sue Barnard

Release Date: 8th July 2014
Publisher: Crooked Cat Publishing

Genres: Contemporary Fiction

Who knows what secrets lie hidden in your family’s past?

Southern England, 1982.

At 25, single, and under threat of redundancy from her job in a local library, Emily feels as though her life is going nowhere – until the day when Carl comes into the library asking for books about tracing family history.

Carl is baffled by a mystery about his late grandfather: why is the name by which Carl had always known him different from the name on his old passport?

Fascinated as much by Carl himself as by the puzzle he wants to solve, Emily tries to help him find the answers. As their relationship develops, their quest for the truth takes them along a complicated paper-trail which leads, eventually, to the battlefields of the Great War.

In the meantime, Emily discovers that her own family also has its fair share of secrets and lies. And old sins can still cast long shadows…

Can Emily finally lay the ghosts of the past to rest and look forward to a brighter future?

A tale of discovery, love and fate.

About Sue Barnard

Sue was born in Wales some time during the last millennium.

After graduating from Durham University with a degree in French, she returned to Manchester (where she had spent her formative years) and got married, then had a variety of office jobs before leaving the world of paid employment to become a full-time parent.  If she had her way, the phrase “non-working mother” would be banned from the English language.

Sue has dabbled with writing for most of her life.  Her first success was at primary school, where she won a competition run by Cadbury’s which involved writing an essay about chocolate.  Her prize was a tin containing a selection of Cadbury’s products.  She still has the tin to this day, and keeps it as a reminder of her humble writing origins.  The chocolate is long since gone, but the tin is now home to her supply of pens and pencils.  In recent years she began to take writing more seriously and studied a series of writing courses with the Open University.  As well as having work published in Best of Manchester Poets (Volumes 2 and 3), her achievements have included winning a T-shirt for writing a limerick (which summed up the plot of Macbethin five lines) and winning first prize in Writing Magazine’s 2013 poetry competition for new subscribers.  In 2013 she joined the editorial team of Crooked Cat Publishing, who also published her debut novel The Ghostly Father(a new interpretation of the Romeo & Juliet story) in February 2014, and her second novel Nice Girls Don’t (a romantic intrigue set in 1982) in July 2014.

Sue’s mind is sufficiently warped that she has also worked as a question-setter for BBC Radio 4’s fiendishly difficult Round Britain Quiz – a phase of her life which caused one of her sons to describe her as “professionally weird.”  She lives in Cheshire and Anglesey (thought not at the same time – she isn’t THAT weird) with her husband and a large collection of unfinished scribblings.

Nice Girls Don't is a fascinating book that will lead you on a quest to find the truth. I love books that have an underlying mystery around them. With this book, there are two mysteries! In her efforts to help Carl uncover the mystery surrounding his late grandfather, Emily discovers more about her own history than she could ever have imagined. Sue Barnard has written a clever story with a poignant theme throughout. Taking us back to the history of the Great War and the horrors associated with it, the reader becomes totally engrossed in Carl's hunt for answers. Working together to figure out just who Carl's grandfather was and helping Emily to figure out just who she is, a romance blossoms between the couple. Its a sweet story of two people who, in their search for answers, find one another. I simply could not put this down. Hooked from page one right through to the last page. Highly recommended read from the very talented Sue Barnard. 

        

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Promo Blitz Sign Up: Nice Girls Don't by Sue Barnard

Nice Girls Don't by Sue Barnard

Release Date: 8th July 2014

Pages: 192

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Mystery

Who knows what secrets lie hidden in your family’s past?

Southern England, 1982.

At 25, single, and under threat of redundancy from her job in a local library, Emily feels as though her life is going nowhere – until the day when Carl comes into the library asking for books about tracing family history.

Carl is baffled by a mystery about his late grandfather: why is the name by which Carl had always known him different from the name on his old passport?

Fascinated as much by Carl himself as by the puzzle he wants to solve, Emily tries to help him find the answers. As their relationship develops, their quest for the truth takes them along a complicated paper-trail which leads, eventually, to the battlefields of the Great War.

In the meantime, Emily discovers that her own family also has its fair share of secrets and lies. And old sins can still cast long shadows…

Can Emily finally lay the ghosts of the past to rest and look forward to a brighter future?

A tale of discovery, love and fate.

Brook Cottage Books is thrilled to be organizing a promo blitz day for Nice Girls Don't by Sue Barnard. There will be a facebook events page for the event and you could win some fab prizes on the day!

The Promo day will take place on the 15th November, and will include reviews, interviews, etc.   To participate in the promo event, please email brookbooks@hotmail.co.uk or leave a comment with the following:

• Your Name
• Blog Name & URL
• Date 
• Email Address if you're not already a BCB Tour Host

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