Tag: Romance

Welcome to the latest Alternative-Read.com cover reveal, where we celebrate beautiful new covers and book launches!

Do let us know what you think of this cover in the comments below. Thank you!

So, lets find more out about our featured author, and reveal the book cover of the day…

Luv, Sass

Welcome to the latest Alternative-Read.com cover reveal, where we celebrate beautiful new covers and book launches!

Do let us know what you think of this cover in the comments below. Thank you!

So, lets find more out about our featured author, and reveal the book cover of the day…

Luv, Sass x

Welcome to the latest Alternative-Read.com cover reveal, where we celebrate beautiful new covers and book launches!

Do let us know what you think of this cover in the comments below. Thank you!

So, lets find more out about our featured author, and reveal the book cover of the day…

Luv, Sass x

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Welcome to the latest Alternative-Read.com cover reveal, where we celebrate beautiful new covers and book launches!

Do let us know what you think of this cover in the comments below. Thank you!

So, lets find more out about our featured author, and reveal the book cover of the day…

Luv, Sass

P.S. Like entering competitions? Do feel free to enter our other giveaways!

Luv, Sass x

P.S. Fan of this blog? Show your support! Become my Patron and get an advert on this website + Twitter service from only $ /£ 1.00 per month!

As you can see, a Dubliner all my life. My parents owned a grocery shop in the Iveagh Markets, in the Liberties area of the city and I guess city blood runs through my veins.

As a child I enjoyed reading and telling stories and everyone thought that I end up in a job which had something to do with books and literature. But though I applied for a job in the library all of the job offers I got were in commerce.

I turned down lots of them before my mother accepted one for me (I was on holiday at the time). It was in the Central Bank of Ireland and that’s how my career in financial services began.

I started out in administration and then moved jobs until finally I was working as a dealer in a commercial bank. Eventually I was promoted to Chief Dealer (the first female CD in the country). I traded lots of different things – foreign exchange, swaps, options, bonds…all of the kind of things you read about in the papers and that sound very technical and difficult. Of course once you’re doing it, it’s not half as technical as it sounds.

But I still loved reading and writing (which I did in my spare time) and I desperately wanted to write my own book. I guess I never quite got over the fact that I was never offered the library job! In my thirties I decided that it was now or never and I sat down, stuck Chapter 1 on a page, and started. I wrote the whole thing before sending it off.

I was offered a publishing deal (with no advance) by an Irish company but only if I wrote a different book! So back to the drawing board, I started again. It was another two years before it was published. It wasn’t until I’d written a few books and was offered a contract (this time with an advance!) from another publisher that I felt able to give up my trading job and write full time. So, even though it took a long time, I eventually realised my dream of being a full-time writer.

And now I also write a business column for the Irish Times.

When I’m writing a book I want to do three things:

* Tell a good story

* Make the reader feel like they know the characters

* Make each book better than the last

I don’t write for any particular audience but I suppose I must have people like me in mind – people who have busy lives and who like to escape into someone else’s for a while.

I love writing books. I hope you enjoy reading them.

Welcome to the latest Monday “Movie”  #MondayMovie book trailer swap. The idea is simple. If you have you made a book trailer to promote your book – please leave the link in the comments section below, so we can come and pay you a visit and watch. Not only do I love making trailers myself, […]

Please stop by and read my review during the Blog Tour for Brenda Jackson’s SEIZED BY SEDUCTION! @AuthorBJackson #SeizedbySeduction

The Brenda Jackson Teaser on Alternative-Read.com (Out April 25th!) So not long to wait…

Welcome to the latest Monday “Movie”  #MondayMovie book trailer swap. The idea is simple. If you have you made a book trailer to promote your book – please leave the link in the comments section below, so we can come and pay you a visit and watch. Not only do I love making trailers myself, […]

Welcome to the latest Monday “Movie”  #MondayMovie book trailer swap. The idea is simple. If you have you made a book trailer to promote your book – please leave the link in the comments section below, so we can come and pay you a visit and watch. Not only do I love making trailers myself, […]

Here’s another reminder, a promo blitz,  of a new romantic suspense — After the Dark by Cynthia Eden. Releasing March 28th Blurb: In this gripping new series by…

I’m very excited to remind you — A new romantic suspense — After the Dark from Cynthia Eden is Releasing March 28th

After the Dark by Cynthia Eden is Releasing March 28th
Romantic Suspense

Fill out this form to take part.  Heard about the Monday “Movie” book trailer swap? #MondayMovie  The idea is simple. If you’ve made a book…

Authors, share where your masterpieces are actually written — your desk! Tell our readers what your writing routine is, we LOVE that!

Book bloggers, what about you? We want to see where you review, blog, and how high your book piles are! Do play along, too!

Willfully stubborn, innocently courageous, Callie Whitcomb braves a journey through the treacherous highlands to the Macpherson castle.

A contemporary gay romance

Truthful Hunter. Truth to his millions of fans and those closest to him. Son of a tragic mother and talented but flawed father. Truth defies…

One Bite Away ~ Vampire Chronicles is out in audio book format.

ROMEO AND JULIET DIDN’T HAVE TWITTER… WDA Publishing’s MANGO BOVEL Division is proud to present Suzanne Carroll’s new book – STARCROSSED. A desperate student deprived…