![]() ![]() ![]() Vote as most anticipated read on Goodreads: To be notified FIRST when Dear Ava is live text ROMANCE to 21000 (No longer available.) This full-length version is 100,000 words. ![]() The truth is, I wanted you back then-but you had him.Īnd then everything fell apart that night.Īn excerpt of Dear Ava appeared in the anthology Team Player 2 in 2019. I’ve missed you cheering at my football games. I’ve missed seeing you walk down the hall. ![]() It’s been ten months since you were here, but I can’t forget you. What I really mean is, you look at me and I feel something REAL. Your eyes are the color of the Caribbean Sea. The question is, which Shark is my secret admirer: Knox, the scarred quarterback and their leader, Dane, his twin brother, or Chance, the ex who dumped me… I hate every one of those rich jerks for what they did to me. The last thing I expected was an anonymous love letter from one of them. Once upon a time, I wanted to be part of their world-until one of them destroyed me. The rich and popular Sharks rule at prestigious, ivy-covered Camden Prep. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From what I can gather, their sales haven't exactly set the world on fire either. Let's just say it was less than five.a lot less. Especially when you begin to exert your increasingly powerful influence over the back street pubs and clubs of East London. And when you regard the law as an irrelevance, all kinds of opportunities can open up for you. well I hesitate to call it a list at all. by Dougie Brimson ( 241 ) 0.99 Hooligan gang leader Billy Evans is above the law. It wasn't cheap but I guess if you are desperate to get into print, you will do whatever it takes, or costs.Īnyway, seeing these prices, I researched said 'tutor' and discovered to my astonishment that they had a backlist of. However, what did interest me was a list of services provided for potential authors and a range of prices charged for those services. It was written by someone who described themselves as a 'literary coach' and was quite informative but actually contained little or nothing that any published author could have provided free of charge. ![]() ![]() You see a while back, I stumbled across a website which provided a guide to getting published. Now I've never actually been to Edinburgh, or any other literary festival for that matter, but I mention it here for a very specific reason. Regarded as possibly the foremost festival on the publishing calendar, it brings together authors and 'thinkers' from across the globe and over a week long period, stages all kinds of events ranging from impassioned debates to creative workshops. As some of you will know, the Edinburgh Literary Festival has just been and gone. ![]() ![]() In addition to referencing Christie mysteries like 4:50 From Paddington, Horowitz name-drops his own oeuvre: “I thought it sounded too much like Midsomer Murders,” says one character of the manuscript’s title. The novel within the novel, also titled Magpie Murders, has all the fixings of a murder in the English countryside, with a fussy detective, a daft sidekick, a meddling busybody, a peculiar vicar and a bombastic aristocrat. As a Christie disciple, he is near equal to his master. Much like his character Alan, he is both prolific and a bona fide student of the golden age of detective fiction - and his knowledge shines through in this book, which is catnip for classic mystery lovers. ![]() ![]() In addition to creating the popular British detective shows Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War, he has written screenplays for the Poirot TV series, a James Bond novel commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate and a number of successful YA thrillers. ![]() Horowitz has spent a long career thinking up suspense stories in the vein of the genre’s greats. ![]() |