Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! First of all, welcome! A lot of you are new to this newsletter, and it makes me so happy to have you here, you have no idea! If you're wondering how you got here, chances are high you downloaded the first 5 chapters of my upcoming cozy mystery, A Slice Of Mystery, on this page. If you missed out on the download, here it is! I send this newsletter just once a month, on the last Friday of the...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: I started my first proofread expecting to find a few typos (and I did), but not things that I thought I'd edited in the previous draft! I guess that's why we (authors) proofread, again and again, until we're sick of the story (but we still love it, too... it's complicated!). The pre-orders for A Slice Of Mystery are officially open (or at least I pressed the button... some retailers...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: November is always a busy month, and this year was no exception. Between drafting the new novel, getting A Slice Of Mystery ready for publication, and promoting my back list for Black Friday, all that while travelling and fighting a cold, I'm glad to see December just around the corner. The new novel (tentative title: Two Sparks Of Mystery) is progressing, not as fast as I wish, but...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: I'm done!!! I can't believe it took me nearly three weeks to rewrite the ending for A Slice Of Mystery, and every minute was. so. hard, but I'm done! In case you missed it, A Slice Of Mystery, is a cozy mystery novel partially set on an IT project (an ERP implementation project, if you want the specifics), as well as in a small town in the south of England. While the edits are done,...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: I should rename this section, "Things Didn't Go As Planned"! I had to restart the cover design process with another designer (proof that just because someone comes highly recommended doesn't mean they'll be good for you), which means I probably won't have a cover for my cozy mystery until the beginning of November, at the earliest. This is very disappointing as I'm having to delay...
6 months ago • 4 min read
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: Wow, where do I start?! The cozy mystery I'd mentioned in my previous newsletters seems like a good place, since so much has happened! I finished the first round of edits and did one more read, to make sure it was all fine before sending it to the Beta readers... Well, that didn't quite go as planned... the second read was painful, which I expected (who wants to read a whodunnit when...
7 months ago • 4 min read
Hi! I'm just popping in to tell you about £/$ 0.99 discounted novels! Your Knowledge Or Your Life (a YA mystery with a Sci-Fi twist by yours truly!) will be on sale along hundreds of others from Saturday 23rd August through to Monday 25th August - check out the full list here! That's it, all done, and don't forget to review the books you read, it really, REALLY helps other readers find the books! Love, Sophie
7 months ago • 1 min read
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: Flying through the revisions and edits for my sapphic cozy mystery romance set on an ERP project, I'm hoping to have it with the beta readers week after next, for a possibly-maybe-I-hope release date of end of October?! Never before have I gone through rounds of revisions and edits in such a short period of time, and I feel like I've really levelled-up as an author (though I still...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Hi! I'm just popping in to tell you about free and discounted novels! Beyond the Threshold, a sweet YA Sapphic romance with centaurs (no spice) is FREE along hundreds of other romance novels on Tuesday 22nd July (TOMORROW!) - check out the full list here, and stuff your e-reader to your heart's content! romancebooklovers.com Also, Your Knowledge Or Your Life, a speculative YA mystery on friendship, fitting in, and trusting people (no spice), is on sale alongside dozens of discounted mystery &...
8 months ago • 1 min read