Glynis Smy - Author of Historical Romance/Suspense

The End

Today I made a decision. I can no longer run several blogs, and am finding the platform, Wordpress, an easier one to work with on a regular basis. So, I will no longer be blogging here. I loved creating my first writing blog, and have appreciated all my followers and their support on Blogger. Thank you all!
My new blog: GLYNIS SMY

Please don't give up on me, and visit my new site, where I run a blog post relating to life and writing. To follow me even if you are not on Wordpress, you can now combine sites on a reader called: Feedly.com
This will be very useful to those looking for a reader when Google close down the one for Blogger.

No More New Book Blogger

My old blog, The New Book Blogger, no longer exists. Instead, I introduce my new site:

The Virtual Bookshelf is a showcase for authors. A place to show off your books, free of charge, no catch.

THE VIRTUAL BOOKCASE

Still Around the Blogging World ... but

My new blog feature on my new site is proving to be popular. I have met new authors and love their responses to my set of questions. My love affair with my new site is proving a strong one. Scheduled posts actually work, I have an in-built reader to read blogs I follow, and a little comment box in the browser that lets me know there is a comment, a follow, or a reply. Time saving. All of it, time saving.

I will admit it was hard to work the buttons, and set up posts, and some things still need a tweek, or a 'how to', lesson, but overall, I am impressed. I love the fact I can visit other blogs on the same platform, and if I am short of time, or have no comment to make, I can click a star, and my face appears in a little box. This tells the site owner that I have been around. It certainly takes the guilt away from trying to get around blogs and not having time to log into comments. Some Blogger blogs take three goes to get the security codes right, and often I have moved on. Then popped back with more patience to try again, as I feel guilty not letting the blogger know I have been around. Blogging pressure is not something I wish to live with when I return to the UK. I will have other pressures to deal with. I will maintain this blog for as long as I am able, however, one day I will make a decision to add links, and not posts here. I am reluctant to give up the blog but when my posts do not upload properly on a schedule, or there is a sluggish half-hour with Blogger, I am often tempted. Time will tell. In the meantime, enjoy the authors I share with you.

http://glynissmyauthor.com/2013/05/30/getting-to-know-the-author-will-macmillan-jones/

http://glynissmyauthor.com/2013/05/27/getting-to-know-the-author-jane-richardson/

http://glynissmyauthor.com/2013/05/20/author-day-getting-to-know-carol-wyer/

One month until I return to the UK, and heading for the nearest library, grabbing a cuddle from my family, and enjoying treats I have missed for eight years. The countdown begins!

How To Be Happy In 5 Easy Steps – The Meme.

Find Me With the Alliterative Allomorph/Jessica Bell

I am featured over at The Alliterative Allomorph, with Jessica Bell, today. I share what excites me about returning to the UK.

Visit me here.

My time over at wordpress is not being wasted. I have created what proves to be a growing site. I will be featuring authors on a Monday, and Thursday, and have met some wonderful new writing folk. I will continue to drop by here with news, but am struggling to visit blogs as often as I did. If I do not get to leave a comment on your blog, please note it does not mean I haven't visited. On wp, I can click a like button to show I have been around. I would love that feature on Blogger.

I am neck-high in packing boxes, and finding dust bunnies I never knew lived behind our furniture! One month to go before the big move, so I may not be about for a while.

Thanks for all the support of my books, the reviews are coming in for Ripped Genes, and I am thrilled with the outcome.

I have not been writing much these past few weeks, as we have had to rehome our pets. We had many, and now have one left to find a place. It is hard work but the homes they have gone to are wonderful. It does help the pain of parting. I feel the rescues we took in, were meant to be with us for nurturing, and then to have forever families. I will miss their quirky ways.

Authors, would you like an interview?

I have been playing over at the new blog, and settling into new surroundings. I will add a few links to posts I set up for the followers over there.

Interview: http://glynissmyauthor.com/2013/05/20/author-day-getting-to-know-carol-wyer/

Would you like me to Interview you. Do you know an author who wants a place to be seen? http://glynissmyauthor.com/2013/05/16/author-interviews-want-to-be-featured/

Sorry not been around much. Packing and other emotional things connected with moving back to the UK, are catching up with me.

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Maggie's Child

When farmer’s wife Maggie Sawbury gives birth to her fifth child, the only one that has lived and the result of an extra-marital affair, she is heartbroken and desperate. Maggie knows her joyless life with a bully of a husband is not one a child should endure, and she leaves the baby at the roadside to be found by passers-by.

Her money-driven husband announces he has found her another job in the village of Redgrave, aside from the many tasks she has on Windtop farm. He is totally unaware the position comes with a secret. One that frightens and yet brings joy to Maggie. She is to become wet-nurse to her abandoned child.

Love, and the possibility of incest, threaten to open old wounds, and Maggie has several decisions to make. However, will they be the right ones? If she tells all she knows, it will bring about the destruction of three families. Equally, her silence could be just as destructive. She shares her secret with another, the result changes her life, and a death brings with it more secrets. Will Maggie stay or will she walk away and find the love she craves?

Review

K.M. Weiland, Author of Historical and Speculative Fiction "Helping Writers Become Authors"

This review is from: Maggie's Child (Kindle Edition)

Glynis Smy has created a historical world that puts me in mind of the classic works of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. Her hard-working, put-upon heroine carries herself with a quiet grace through the tragedies of her hard-fought life. Not a cheerful story in many respects (there are moments in which it is quite dark), but the author plumbs the depths of human darkness and comes up in the end with a bucket full of light and hope.

Ripper, My Love >The Blurb

Growing up in late nineteenth century East London, Kitty Harper’s life is filled with danger and death – from her mother, her beloved neighbour and the working women of the streets. With her ever-watchful father and living surrogate family though, Kitty feels protected from harm. In fact, she feels so safe that while Whitechapel cowers under the cloud of a fearsome murderer, she strikes out on her own, moving into new premises to accommodate her sewing business.

But danger is closer than she thinks. In truth, it has burrowed itself right into her heart in the form of a handsome yet troubled bachelor, threatening everything she holds dear. Will Kitty fall prey to lust – and death – herself, or can she find the strength inside to fight for her business, sanity and her future? And who is the man terrifying the streets of East London?

Amazon Reader UK

It is difficult to pigeonhole this marvellous debut by Glynis Smy into the standard historical/romance genre but in my opinion, the book is such a tour de force of dramatic and evocative storytelling that it doesn't matter at all.
The writing gives a very strong sense of the era in which it is set, Jack the Ripper's Victorian London; you can almost smell and see the fog. The author also presents us with a very strong courageous and sympathetic heroine in Kitty with two enigmatic suitors, Arthur and James. To say anymore would spoil the plot which pulls no punches and is full of interesting twists.
Not for the faint hearted, it will keep you on the edge of your seat; I could not put it down and read in one session. It has it all tragedy, murder, romance.. what's not to like?
An outstanding debut I look forward to Ms Smy's next work.

Glynis Smy - Author of Historical Romance/Suspense

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