Author Archives: Lizzie Lamb
A Laird Isn’t Just For Christmas
Another Christmassy extract.
This extract is from my novel
Tall, Dark and Kilted –
A contemporary romance set in the Highlands of Scotland.
Here’s the blurb . . .
Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it the dream of being her own boss. She’s offered the chance to take over a failing therapy centre, but there’s a catch. The centre lies five hundred miles north in Wester Ross, Scotland. Fliss’s romantic view of the highlands populated by Men in Kilts is shattered when she has an upclose and personal encounter with the Laird of Kinloch Mara, Ruairi Urquhart. He’s determined to pull the plug on the business, bring his eccentric family to heel and eject undesirables from his estate – starting with Fliss. Facing the dole queue once more…
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It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot like Christmas . . .
If you’d like to read an extract from Boot Camp Bride set on Christmas Eve . . . here it is.
This extract is from my novel Boot Camp Bride and the action takes place in a skip/dumpster on Christmas Eve. Charlee Montague is on her first stake out with temperamental, brooding photographer, Rafa Ffinch. If she gets it right, he takes her on as his partner for a trial period. Get it wrong, and she’s back to filing, fetching lattes and walking the editor’s dog.
Here’s the blurb . . .
Take an up-for-anything rookie reporter. Add a world-weary photo-journalist. Put them together . . . light the blue touch paper and stand well back! Posing as a bride-to-be, Charlee Montague goes undercover at a boot camp for brides in Norfolk to photograph supermodel Anastasia Markova looking less than perfect. At Charlee’s side and posing as her fiancé, is Rafael Ffinch award winning photographer and survivor of a kidnap attempt in Colombia. He’s in no mood to cut inexperienced Charlee…
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Lizzie Lamb on teamwork, the glass ceiling, and that Waterstones event!
Lizzie Lamb on teamwork, the glass ceiling, and that Waterstones event!.
With the @writeromantics talking about the ‘glass ceiling’ which prevents indie authors from reaching their potential, our fabulous Waterstones gig and how to write a Scottish novel if you’re English!
‘An Englishwoman’s Guide to the Cowboy’ by June Kearns – More Than a Romance
A lovely review for June’s book – The Englishwoman’s Guide to the Cowboy.
Hocus Pocus ’14 and Hallowe’en Fun
HOCUS POCUS ’14 OFFICAL LAUNCH DATE AND FREE DOWNLOAD
Today is the official launch date of the Hallowe’en short story anthology – HOCUS POCUS ’14.
To celebrate the event, the short story anthology will be FREE to download from 31st October to 2nd November. So grab yours now. The contributors have organised a Facebook Event which will run through the whole day in hourly slots. There will be lots of giveaways to celebrate the launch of Hocus Pocus, so please come along, leave a comment/enter a competition and, hopefully, win a prize.
I will be ‘live’ from 7pm – 8pm. During that time I will be organising a fun competition to choose your ‘witchy name’ – with some copies of Hocus Pocus (paperback) up for grabs and/or a download of either Tall, Dark and Kilted or Boot Camp Bride. I was also be ‘manning’ the Facebook page…
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If You Don’t Have a Dream
The third member of New Romantics Press talks about her path to publication.
New Romantics Press 