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October: a review

01 Saturday Nov 2014

Posted by kathmcgurl in Goals, Writing

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Emerald Comb, Pearl Locket, review

It’s been quite a month. Looking back on it, last night, I realised actually it’s been an amazing month.

During October we went to close friends’ silver wedding celebration, a 50th birthday party, and spent a wonderful long weekend at the Cork jazz festival with my sister-in-law and her husband.

In the day job a major project I’ve managed and worked on for most of the year came to a successful conclusion.

And as for my writing endeavours – wow. October has been brilliant.

  • The Emerald Comb went onto an Amazon 99p promotion and sales took off. I’ve had some wonderful reviews. I even had a best seller flag for a while!bestseller3
  • I’ve been featured on loads of lovely blogs promoting The Emerald Comb. For links to them all, see this page.
  • The Pearl Locket went up for pre-order and immediately made it into the historical fiction chart.
  • Sales of Mr Cavell’s Diamond have been boosted by a Countdown deal, and have also been helped by people enjoying The Emerald Comb and coming back to see what else I’ve written.
  • Sales of the How To books ticked along, and I sold more paperbacks of them last month than any other month to date.
  • I have almost finished the first draft of a short new non-fiction book. I had the idea in early October and have raced through it.
  • I’ve had an idea for another novel, might be the next one I write, we’ll see.

November will be quieter, I suspect. Although I’ll be writing a lot, as usual!

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Lovely new review!

15 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by kathmcgurl in Books

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Morgen Bailey, review

Prolific blogger and book reviewer Morgen Bailey has reviewed my Short Stories and How to Write Them on her blog today.

I’ve often spent an enjoyable hour or two browsing her blog and am delighted to now be featured on it. Thanks, Morgen!

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