Author Archives: Lizzie Lamb
Guest author June Kearns—coming home to a place you’ve never been before
It’s extremely rare for me to write to another author and ask permission to review their work. But when I read June Kearns’ The 20’s Girl, the Ghost, and All That Jazz, I immediately asked her to be my guest here so we could talk about her books. (Okay, first I grabbed An Englishwoman’s Guide to the Cowboy because I just couldn’t resist. Then I asked June. Don’t judge me.)
My review follows, but first please join me in welcoming June.
- Star War, Star Trek, or Starfly? Star Wars – the start of a long love-affair with Harrison Ford
Who would you most like to sit next to on an airplane?I’d like to sit between the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis. All that wisdom and serenity would stop me worrying about being suspended thousands of miles above the earth in the tummy of a big metal bird.- Who would…
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Breaking News – Adrienne shortlisted for award at Festival of Romantic Fiction
The New Romantics 4 are delighted to announce that Adrienne Vaughan’s 5 star novel A Change of Heart has been shortlisted in the Romance Reader Awards at the Festival of Romantic Fiction.
As Sarah Taylor, awards organiser, says: “With the highest number of entries the awards have had in their four year history, the standard this year was exceptionally high with many highly rated novels not making the shortlists. The breath and depth of quality writing in romantic fiction should be celebrated and that’s what these awards are all about.”.You can read the complete lists for all categories here but this is the line up for Adrienne’s category:
Best Author Published
A Change of Heart by Adrienne Vaughan
Mary Bennet by Kate Allan
Sweet Occasions by Linn B Halton
Drumbeats by Julia Ibbotson
Fairlights by Jan Jones
Christmas Yves by Nicola May
The award ceremony is at the Festival of Romantic Fiction on the evening of Saturday 13th September 2014 at Leighton Buzzard Theatre. There are many fabulous events happening at the Festival to interest readers and writers alike. . . .the book fair in Leighton Buzzard High Street from 10am to 3pm and the Traditional Afternoon Tea with the Authors at The Green House, Market Square, Leighton Buzzard. Adrienne will be attending all of these but especially the Awards ceremony in the evening, The other members of the New Romantics 4, sadly cannot attend this year – Lizzie is chasing men in kilts in the highlands of Scotland (all in the interests of research, of course). June is packing up thirty years of her life in boxes prior to moving house and Mags is putting the finishing touches to her second novel. But we all say to our darling Ade – break a leg, sweetie, you have worked so hard to complete your ‘HEART’ trilogy and deserve all the accolades you can win.
Here we are at last years Festival of Romance held in Bedford with all our gorgeous books on display. Hopefully, we’ll all be there next year with our third novels in tow.
Romance: Bah Humbug?
A new blog to follow, methinks.
Welcome to my Second Acts Series!
Today, we have June Kearns entertaining us with her take on romance and romance writing.
Here’s June!
First Act
One of my earliest memories is being under the kitchen table, hidden by fringes of the chenille cloth and listening to the chink of teacups, laughter and whispered secrets between my mum and her sisters.
They all read romances – the quest to find the one person you were destined to spend your life with, that impulse buried deep in the natural world. Apparently, when you least expected it – zing would go the strings of your heart (or something like that!)
Without fail, the heroines in these stories were head-turning, heart-stopping beauties. One look, and the hero would be smitten.
At 13, I’d already decided that no-one would ever fall in love with me. Small, sturdy and self-conscious, I had hair that frizzed in…
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Romancing September #RomancingSeptember Just days away from the start.
Adrienne, LIzzie and June will be taking part in this tour.
Rosie’s Book Review Challenge – Manda reviewed The 20’s Girl, The Ghost and All That Jazz by June Kearns
Nice review for June’s book from Manda Ward via Rosie Amber. Thank you.
Rosie’s Book review Challenge – Alison reviews The 20’s Girl, The Ghost and All That Jazz by June Kearns
Thanks to Rosie for another great blog
Rosie’s Book Review Challenge – Stephanie reviews Tall Dark and Kilted by Lizzie Lamb
Many thanks to Stephanie (via Rosie Amber) for this lovely review of Tall, Dark and Kilted.
SUMMER READING – take me with you to the beach . . .
This started off as a post on Twitter and look how I got sucked in !!
It doesn’t seem possible that two years have passed since I, and the other members of the New Romantics 4, decided to stop tweaking and editing our novels and publish them on amazon. Its been a whirlwind but worth it. So, here we are, published authors and working hard on our third novels and with a poster to prove it. We have a social media presence on Facebook, Twitter and WordPress. launched our books in Waterstones and produced a video which will appear on YouTube and our blog in September. Added to that we have the satisfaction of knowing that we’ve done it ourselves – with a little help from our many, talented writer friends and supportive readers.
Thank you for buying our novels and for writing us a review on amazon or Goodreads
Other fledgling (and not so fledgling!) authors have asked me what my path to publication…
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