Hello, happy Friday and also Tortured Poets Department day to all those who are celebrating! Today, I have such a treat of an interview with fellow Swiftie and Amy, Amy Clarkin, to share and I hope you love reading it.
Hello again! Today, I’m thrilled to have another blog tour post to share with you, this time an interview with Janine Beacham to celebrate her new release the Doll Twin!
Hello everyone! Today, I am so thrilled to be starting off the blog tour for Tamsin Mori’s new book Guardians of the Source, which is something I’m very excited to read soon. I have an amazing guest post from Tamsin to share!
Hi everyone! Some of you may remember a post I did in January about making it my mission to start featuring more author interviews here again, and I was so lucky to have so many people interested. One of these was Laila Rifaat and I am so excited to be sharing her answers with you today!
Hello everybody! Hope you’re having the best Monday you can be. Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for the brand new body swap comedy middle grade Skylar and the K-Pop Headteacher. I have a post from the author to share about the main character’s playlist alongside my review!
Continue reading “Blog Tour: Skylar and the K-Pop Headteacher by Luan Goldie”Hello everybody! Today, I’m delighted to be part of the Lie or Die blog tour with my review. Also, if you head over to my social medias (goldenbooksgirl on both twitter and Instagram!), you’ll find a giveaway where the publisher is giving away five copies via me.
Hello, hope you’re having as happy a Monday as you possibly can be! Today, I’m delighted to be part of the blog tour for Rebeka Shaid’s young adult debut novel Seven Days.
Continue reading “Blog Tour Review: Seven Days by Rebeka Shaid”Hello everyone! Today I had the pleasure of being part of the cover reveal for Bryony Pearce’s new middle grade Hannah Messenger and Gods of Hockwold. Bryony very kindly wrote a guest post to tell you a little bit about it, and I’m delighted to share it with you now!
When I had decided that Hannah Messenger and the Gods of Hockwold was going to be about the Greek gods in their retirement, I had to decide where in the world the novel was going to be set. Where, in short, had the gods retired to?It made sense for them to retire to Greece, but honestly, it wouldn’t have been funny to set the novel in Greece.Humour requires incongruity (putting two things together that wouldn’t usually belong). So where would it be funny to put the retired Greek gods? I decided that a small English village would be funnier than a Greek island, with the village council, cricket pitch, church of England vicar, local pub and primary school. And then I found it. A village in Cambridgeshire with the BEST name that was the MOST incongruous place for the gods to end up. It’s a place called Hockwold cum Wilton.Yes. Hockwold. Cum. Wilton. Don’t you love it!And the BEST thing about Hockwold cum Wilton is that it added so much of its real self to the story. It is as if it was DESIGNED for my novel! Hockwold cum Wilton was originally two villages: Hockwold and Wilton. So, I decided to make Hockwold the ‘god’s’ side and Wilton the ‘human’ side. There is a real marker stone between the two halves of village, which marks where Hockwold ended, and Wilton began. This marker stone genuinely has a carving of ram on it. A ram is the sign of Zeus. Yes really.There really is a cross on the green, which I have changed a little so that the gods see it as a sword. The Tudor manor house (Hockwold Hall) where Zack and Zane live is real.Hockwold cum Wilton is also conveniently located for visiting Cambridge prison, which was very helpful for providing the entrance to Tartarus (prison of the gods).I hope I’ll get to write a book two and if I do, more of the village history will most likely enter my fictional world – the fact that a Roman hoard of treasure was found in Hockwold in 1962 (what else might have been unearthed?) and the original village was situated a mile further south, but was burned down when it got infected by the black death (I love facts like this).Sometimes a place just calls to you and that is what Hockwold did to me. Apologies if you live in Hockwold cum Wilton and I have taken too many liberties with your home, but it was just SO perfect for Hannah.If you look at my gorgeous front cover, designed by the immensely talented Claire Powell @misspowellpeeps you will see Hannah and her friends (and their pets) and a few other clues about what is going to happen in the story!
Love from Bryony
thank you so much for reading! Are you planning to pick this up, or have you read anything else by this author? What’s your favourite Greek myth or deity? I’d love to chat in the comments!
Amy xxx
Hello everybody, happy first blog post of the year! I’m hoping to have more blog posts that aren’t for tours this year, including tags and author interviews, but I think outwith tours the best place to find reviews now is on my Instagram.
Anyway, today I am thrilled to be part of the blog tour for the new release from fabulous Eloise Smith. Onto the post!
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