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What Have I Done? Gone A - Z Crazy?

I just knew Facebook would get me into bother! Stephen Tremp put up a very tempting invitation to join the April A - Z challenge. Now I have seen this blog hop going on over the years, and always wondered where folk find the time to pull it off. How they come up with fantastic theme ideas. Well I really am going to find out because I have joined up! With all that is going on with the book launch I am wondering what got into me! I think it is the pull of the blogging community and their enthusiastic spirit. Well I haven't given myself enough time to consider a theme or get prepared as the darn thing starts tomorrow! Well done as usual Glynis, last in the queue. That is how I got Madam Braincell by being last in the queue.
I think my theme is going to be Mixed Bag Coffee Break Moments. How about that, it took me seconds to think it up. Now I had better get off of here and go learn the alphabet!

15 comments:

DW96 said...: Hi Glynis. I'm doing it too. There s a secret, you know. I've already writtena dn psoted 14 of the 26 posts and the other 12 are all titled, and will be finished by early next week.

My theme with be the Sanford 3rd Age Club Mysteries. I'll kepp an eye on your posts and you will probably find my via Networked blogs on FB.

Keep well, and good luck; 31/3/12
Glynis said...: Hi DW96, thanks for dropping by! Shh, I have just written mine for tomorrow! LOL. I will keep an eye out for your posts too!; 31/3/12
Hilary Melton-Butcher said...: Hi Glynis .. glad you're doing it .. and I look forward to my Mixed Bag Coffee Break each day - not sure what I'll do for Sundays?!

Cheers and see you around - Hilary; 31/3/12
Christine Hardy said...: Hi! I am really looking forward to reading your posts, Glynis. You write so beautifully.

I put my first post up for today because I understood that we were skipping Sundays. Then I got the email that says we are supposed to start tomorrow.

Oh well, just a little eager beaver, that's me!; 31/3/12
Glynis said...: Hilary, thanks. I think I will be resting my brain on Sundays! LOL

Christine, thank you so much. There will be a mix of poetry and bits. Not really sure what the bits are yet! LOL. I wasn't sure what was happening about the 1st and Sunday, the email was a relief to my pea brain! :); 31/3/12
DL Hammons said...: Just consider it one of the greatest writing prompt exercises ever devised! The creativity rises to the top in April! :); 31/3/12
Jessica Bell said...: Hehehe, I'm sure you'll do great!; 31/3/12
Reb Alexander said...: I'm doing it too, Glynis, you'll have to pop over and have a look!; 31/3/12
Stephen Tremp said...: Hmmm ... where's my comment? Anyway, glad you joined Glynis! Just have fun with it. This is great exposure for your upcoming book too!; 31/3/12
Glynis said...: DL, it will certainly challenge the brain!

Jessica, stop giggling! And thanks.

Reb, I will pop over for sure!

Stephen, mmm, what have you got me into! I will have fun, and maybe meet new folk.

Good luck to you all!; 31/3/12
Sharkbytes said...: So far I have resisted one of these theme things, but I'll be interested to see what you do with it.; 1/4/12
Len Lambert said...: Can't wait to read your posts!; 1/4/12
Loree said...: Good luck. I am sure you will come up with all sorts of interesting posts.; 1/4/12
William Kendall said...: I'm reading a few bloggers doing this one, and now you! Good luck with it, Glynis!; 2/4/12
Glynis said...: William, I remember last year, I felt out of the loop. So this year I debated, and at the last minute decided the exposure would do me good. Just hope I get to z!; 2/4/12

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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