A fairly brief one today

Because the weather’s cold and wet and windy, and I’m engrossed in the first draft of a new trilogy about Windy Bay for next year. It’s set around the pub and a smallholding I’ve mentioned before, and the characters aren’t happy about me leaving them, which is always a good sign!

I’m off back to the beach at Windy Bay on a hot sunny day with thunder in the air, and a crop that needs bringing in, and it’s bound to flood. Will the new defences hold? Will my couple of stubborn people start to see sense? I hope so, but I don’t know how they'll do it yet yet because that’s the way I write the quick first draft.

So Marcus and Caryn and Silas and Allegra and all the regular characters are calling and I’ll just tell you about the books that are on special offer and ask if you’d like next years’ books in March, June and September and then a Christmas one in December or in a group in the summer…

This week's specials are 99p in the UK and 99c in the US, and if you don’t get either of those, then put in Tia Brown anthologies, and you can buy selected books at 3 for £2.99, which is pretty much the same thing. I really will get round to putting some more up, promise.

A nice batch this week.

There are the first 4 Amy Hammond books, which are Wasted on the Young, Up the Garden Path, A Stitch in Time and The Prodigal Daughter. She and Peter Cunningham still live next door to each other and are good friends, and she doesn’t know why she’s finding so much trouble these days, but is about to find out…

Then there are some unashamedly slushy small-town romances with guaranteed happy endings and no sex or violence. Oldcastle is remarkably like the Dorset town of Wareham, but the people in Wareham aren’t quite as prone to finding trouble or being so interested in each other’s lives. They are The Wrong Twin, Kings of the Castle, and A Woman to be Reckoned With. The heroine from the last one, Nadine, is now popping up in Windy Bay and the Amy Hammond books as she sets up the Dorset Triangle, which is a marketing initiative. It’s like the Bermuda Triangle, except that your waistline tends to disappear, which it does when you’re in Dorset because there really is amazing food.

Finally, there are two from the series I write as Eleanor Neville, which is now overlapping with Amy Hammond and the Lucy Williams series. A little darker, a little more violent, a little sexier, but still with happy endings. Those are Guardian Angel and Daymare, and Guardian Angel would be a good place to start because there’s a heroine with 2 small children in danger and finding out things she hadn’t expected about her late husband and his best friend who she’s never liked before…

So that’s it for today, and here’s a nice picture of the harbour on a better day than this one to cheer us all up. Hopefully, I’ll have more interesting stuff to say on Saturday, and please, let me know what you think about the publication dates for Windy Bay.