#Writinggoal

My little romcom is in Waterstones' window!!! It's right there under Margaret Attwood and above Stephen King, like a weird Happiness sandwich. #writinggoal

Today!! One paperback!

Hurrah!! It's paperback publication day!!!

Unboxing and Book Sniffing

A little filum for you!

Blog Tour Day Ten, the Finale!!

This is it! The End! The final day of the Blog Tour for Probably the Best Kiss in the World and it's been a blast. So many lovely reviews, I'm quite blushy about it.

To round off there's a review and a Q&A;

Dash Fan Book Reviews


The Q&A is here

The Magic of Wor(l)ds

All the bloggers deserve HUGE thanks for reading and reviewing.  The full cast looked like this

Thanks for coming along!

Blog Tour Day Nine! (Nearly there...!)

Ah, we are nearly at the end of the blog tour, with just tomorrow to go. 

Today's reviews are from;


Splashes Into Books

Tizi's Book Review

Bookish Jottings

Xx

Blog Tour Day Eight!

Three more reviews today on the BlogTour for Probably the Best Kiss in the World. They are as follows;


B For Bookreview

Bibi's Book Blog

Books and Bindings


Penultimate day tomorrow!

xx 

Blog Tour Day Seven!

So, after the squeeing, here are today's bloggers on the Probably the Best Kiss in the World Blog Tour. (Do not let me name a book with that long a title ever again!!)

Stacy Is Reading

The Comfy Chair

Tale At A Time

xx

"We interrupt this service..."

Just going to interrupt the blanket coverage of the blog tour to have a quick squeeing moment. Probably the Best Kiss in the World just popped into the Amazon Top 50 Romcoms. It won't last long, so I am having my moment;

AARMMAAGGAAHHDD!!!!!

Book Tour Day Six!

Today we again have a mixed bag, with two reviews and a Q&A

Reviews here;

Books, Life and Everything

Books Are Cool


Q&A here;

Jazzy Book Reviews


xx

Blog Tour Day Five!

Day Five and we are midways! Three new reviews today;


Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

What's Better Than Books?

Nicki's Book Blog


They're lovely :)

Blog Tour Day Four!

Today we shake it up a little on the Blog Tour, with two reviews and a Q&A.

Reviews here

Audio Killed the Bookmark

Wild x Heart

and

Q&A here

The Chicklit Club


xx

Blog Tour Day Three!

Today's lovely blog tourists for Probably The Best Kiss in the World are as follows;


Ellesea Loves Reading

Lemon Nail Fiend

Know Your Books



More tomorrow x

Blog Tour Day Two!

Three more reviews today for Probably The Best Kiss in the World's blog Tour.

You can find them here;

Rachel's Book Blog

Coffee And Kindle Book Reviews

Curled Up With A Good Book

Toot Toot! Blog Tour

I've gone on Blog Tour as of today! Three bloggers per day will be reviewing Probably the Best Kiss in the World for the next 10 days.

The tour guide looks like this;

First up are the following three

Grace J Reviewer Lady

Cheryl M-M's Book Blog

Proud Book Reviews

Three more tomorrow!

It's Probably publication day!!

It's OUT! TODAY!

Probably the Best Kiss in the World is out today in ebook (paperback to follow in June.)
Hurrah!!!

You can find it here or with your online retailer of choice

www.hyperurl.co/probablythebesteb 

Cover reveal! And it's all kinds of Pretty

I have a cover for my new book!!! Probably the Best Kiss in the World is out on April 12th. And it looks like this;

I know I'm biased, but I think it is ridiculously pretty.

You can read more about it here.

I have a blurb!

At last I have a blurb to share for the new book, Probably the Best Kiss in the World, which is due out on April 12th ( ebook, June 27th for the paperback.) I am very excited for you to read it, but in the meantime, here's the gist;

Jen Attison likes her life Just So. But being fished out of a canal in Copenhagen by her knickers is definitely NOT on her to do list. From cinnamon swirls to a spontaneous night of laughter and fireworks, Jen’s city break with the girls takes a turn for the unexpected because of her gorgeous, mystery rescuer.

Back home, Jen faces a choice. A surprise proposal from her boyfriend, ‘boring’ Robert has offered Jen the safety net she always thought she wanted. But with the memories of her Danish adventure proving hard to forget, maybe it’s time for Jen to stop listening to her head and start following her heart…

I'll share the cover as soon as I have it, but if you'd like I can ping it straight to your inbox, if you sign up to my mailing list over on my website.

*Next Book Title klaxon*

My hitherto untitled second book now has a title!!
I coould just tell you here, but that would be too easy and no fun. So instead I'm making it a treasure hunt.
It's revealed in the News section of my spanking new website, which you can find here. Go see!!
The ebook is out on April 12th and the paperback on June 27th.

PS. I announced the title in my first newsletter the other day. If you'd like to have the news hot off the press, can I invite you to sign up to the mailing list on the site? If it's book deals you're interested in, then also sign up to my Bookbub profile here or via the link in the website footer. 

It hurt, but it's here

Do you remember the post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the one with the 2019 goals and intentions? It's just below or you can click here , but I wanted to squee about the fact I've managed one of them already, and it was one I have been hiding from for aaaaaaages, because I am scared of Tech.

Ta-daaaaaah, I made a website!! I am Queen of the Internets!!! It was similar to labouring out a baby, but with the benefit of my husband being able to bring me alcohol throughout, without being frowned at. You can view it at www.pernillehughes.com

There, that was all, just wanted to share, as I am still quite giddy from having done it. It still needs tweaking, but it exists and I can start building a mailing list, which every single writers thing says 'is absolutely key and OMG how can I not have set this up already?'. If anyone else if a Tech-lemming and having to go through this I can recommend this article for hand-holding, although I did go slightly off-piste with the providers (I registered with Ionos, hosted with Siteground, on Wordpress with Mailerlite for the mailing list.) And the world of tutorials is your oyster, (and lifeline,) my friend.

Eventually, I'll attempt to transfer this blog over there, but let's be honest it may well take me a loooong while to work out how to do it, and I'm a little web-exhausted. 

Please be invited to go and have a looksee!

Aims and Intentions 2019

Happy New Year Lovelies!

As per normal, this is my annual looky-backy to see what I had planned for past year, and what I actually managed, as well as declaring to the Universe what my aims are for the year going forward. For those who have been here a while, you know I do this every year, because it really does help. Once you've shouted plans from the rooftops you HAVE to at least have a go, as at some point someone will ask you how things are going and you'll feel a lot better being able to say that things are in progress rather than saying 'um.. yeah, well, that, not so much...anyone need another drink? Bye.'
  Personally, (as opposed to Politically, which appears to be a total s**tshow) 2018 was a bit of a year. Things happened! Dreams came true! My aims last year looked like this and I'll evaluate how they went below, but ultimately I GOT A DEAL AND HAD A BOOK PUBLISHED!!!!!!

  

Being published has been super exciting, but at times also felt like starting a new job in a new field and having to go through the standard 'Moron phase', only blindfolded, as things happen away from me most of the time. (So far I have yet to find a flow chart that explains the publishing process to me and that I can cling onto.) My aims and intentions for 2019 are now shaped by this too, there's a new landscape to deal with, in contrast to the previous writing without deadline, in the hope that someday something would happen.

So to reflect on the previous aims;

I did finish the first draft of Story Two. It has no name yet, but it's in the system.

I have started Story Three. It's not as plotted as I would have liked, but not starting was making me anxious, so it made more sense to simply launch in. I've just reached the Suckage Point (20k words) and it does indeed Suck. I have faith that this is part of The Process. It's worked before. I still felt guilty about taking Thinking Time on it. That probably won't ever change.

I'm still learning about Structure. I don't know if that'll ever change either.

I didn't do NANO, because I was was in edits and I didn't have a plan. I would possibly like to try again next year, but as before, ONLY ONLY ONLY if I have a plan. (I'm still scared I'll get talked into it without one and that would.)

I still don't feel I get to read enough, so that one is being carried over to 2019.

I never once referred to my writing as a hobby in 2018. Yay me! In fact, I got to write 'Author' when filling in forms which was a thrill.

I did go on another writing retreat. It gave me the headspace I needed to break the back of the edit of Book Two.

I still spend too much time on Twitter. That is a fact, but I excuse it as being marketing for my book. And I have to do Facebook too now, having resisted for all the years, and Instagram. So there was a point in 2018 where it felt like it had spiralled out of control, numbing my creative brain, and also losing my writing time, so that one is carrying over too, in the hope that I can find a way of being disciplined and controlling it.

Am still writing with four fingers. I suspect that won't ever change.

So what am I planning for 2019? 

I really must sort out my writing practice, as it is still all over the shop. I was supposed to have it honed by now, but I haven’t. I still haven’t worked out what works best for me, to fit alongside running my family. As mentioned with the social medias I have to learn to be far better disciplined as it is pitiful at times. I need to get back to turning up at the keyboard every day when I am in a writing phase. No excuses.

I need Book Two fully finished, but this is already in the publishing process, so I just have to hit the deadlines I’m given. It's slated for release in April (paperback in June). It can be pre-ordered on Amazon - but with no title, no cover and no blurb it's currently only for people who like to take a risk with their book selection, or my parents. 

I've got to get Book Three written and Book Four started or planned, with the view to another aim of Getting a new contract. My initial deal was for two books, so I’ll technically be out of contract this year. This is the bit where I learn that getting published was only the first step, staying published is a whole new ball game.

I have to get a grip on Marketing. Ah marketing….I have ideas, but it takes up so much time, and it that time comes from … my writing time, which feels like a bit of a catch 22 situation.  

I want to get a website and mailing list set up. Learning the techie stuff is my nemesis and I get scared and run away at almost every new step. Do you buy you domain name separately or from the webdesigner? Do you need the insurance they try to sell you? Is it a good price and a good deal? I DON’T KNOW THIS STUFF!!!! When you are a debut writer, you really don’t want to lose money on mistakes and to a tech lemming like me it feels like a minefield.

I'd like to go on retreat again, and this time be writing something.

That feels like enough to be getting on with.

Anyone have any goals they want to declare? I heartily urge you to do it.

All the best for 2019!!