It’s never over at the Second Chance Cafe

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Abbie Jackson, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Noelle Clark, Romance, Second Chance Cafe, Second Chances, Short stories, Susanne Bellamy

 

 

 

Q. Abbie – firstly HUGE congratulations on your debut publication. I loved reading your story  – Shannon’s Legacy – in the anthology Second Chance Café, but have to admit to reaching for the tissues a couple of times. J  Can you tell us the inspiration for this story?

Thank you so much, Noelle! I’m so pleased to be a part of this anthology.

Yes, Shannon’s Legacy is not your standard romance novel, for sure.  The inspiration for this novella came to me after a lunch meeting with the other authors involved in the trilogy where we were all discussing ideas for Second Chance Café, and what ‘a second chance’ really meant to me.

I think, so often in life, things happen to us that are beyond our control, just as it did for Shannon.  What I wanted to portray to the readers is, sometimes you really need to push for your second chance in life, not wait for it to be handed to you.

Q. What’s the best part about collaborating in a project such as the Second Chance Café anthology?

I love the brainstorming, the support, the sharing of ideas, the vibe of working with such a wonderful group of writers. And I love how, this year, we are able to welcome debut writer, Abbie Jackson, and travel with her on the first step of her writing journey. It’s FUN!

 

Can you please share a blurb about the story – September Harvest?

Seasonal crop picker Andrew is still a boy himself when he introduces 12 year old Tilly to reading. Instantly besotted both with Andrew and with books, Tilly eagerly awaits his return to her village over the course of 7 summers. Childish adoration is now a young woman’s love but has she misread his feelings for her over the years?

 

 

‘Second chances have often taken years to emerge. I’ve waited, reasonably patiently, for something that I’ve wished for, longed for, and now – at this particular point in my life – I think I can see that it is finally happening. The exact nature of what I longed for has blurred at the edges over many years. It’s not as clear, nor am I as driven, as I once was to hold the dream in my hands. But, although I am scared to say it out loud, I think it has finally come. So now, as I take my first scary, tentative steps toward a new future, I’m holding my breath and closing my eyes tightly and hoping fervently that this chance won’t disappear before I’ve grasped it with both hands.’

Second Chance Cafe is a collection of four very different short stories about love, relationships, and hope.

This anthology is proudly brought to you from four Australian authors:

Susanne Bellamy
Elizabeth Ellen Carter
Noelle Clark
and debut author – Abbie Jackson.

http://amzn.to/1NwMejV

 

 

 

Noelle Clark, Irish Blessings and the Appin Murder.

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All right dudes, can we can it please? We are here today to show off Noelle Clark’s new cover.

Of her new book. in the Robinhill Farm series.

Noelle’s book isn’t out till June 30th but I am sure she won’t mind us having a sneak peek at her cover and blurb.  And maybe she will come back with a wee Irish story for us.

James of the Glen? Well, James was a Scotsman famous for being wrongly accused and hung for the murder of The Red Fox.

The Red Fox, was of course a government factor of estates forfeited after the Battle of Culloden when the British government wanted to wipe the Highland people off the face of the earth by any means possible. He was shot dead by an unknown gunman while on his way to evict Glen Duror’s farming tenants. The Government demanded blood and who better to arrest than James Stewart, veteran of Culloden and organiser of the opposition to the Red Fox.   The story was the inspiration behind the book Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. And the photos well above are of James’s actual birthplace in Glen Duror. It’s a very nice walk to the bothy. Quite the spot to camp in if you are into bothies.

AND there are other walks associated with what is known as the Appin Murder. There’s the Duror walk from Ballachulish to Glen Duror, if you fancy a nice long trek

and there’s the Brecklet Trail, if you’re not so sure about that.

I leave you with Noelle’s book.

  HONOR’S PROMISE (Liam’s Journey) by Noelle Clark. Release Date 30 June 2015

Loyalty and love define Liam. But will obligations to family and farm get in the way of him finding true happiness?

BLURB

Loyalty is high on Liam Cullen’s agenda, but lately he’s been feeling restless. He wants to run away from the endless routines of life on the family farm. He contemplates busting free of the sometimes suffocating confines of the close-knit family. He’d like to see the world. Maybe meet a few girls.

Riddled with guilt that he could even consider such a thing, the final blow comes when Liam’s abilities as a first rate farmer are questioned. He sees red and his quick temper is sorely stretched. He struggles inner demons and attempts to fight the inevitable – until he meets the girl with the blue-green eyes and the copper-colored hair.

Without knowing it, Aislin O’Neill sweeps Liam off his feet, and transports him to a place he’s only ever dreamed of. It’s soon apparent that Aislin has her own inner battles. Will she break her self-imposed vow to never get involved with anyone again?

EXTRACT

A couple of hours later, Liam pulled up out the front of the home he shared with his mam and brother. The only home he’d ever known. He knew every square inch of the house, the gardens, all the outbuildings and sheds, and most likely every grain of soil as well. It was his home and he loved it. He loved his family. He turned the ignition key and cut the engine. But had he missed any of it while he’d been away in Cork?

The answer turned like a knife in his chest. If he’d been a married man, maybe even with children of his own, he would have been like Kevin and rushed off as soon as he could to get back home. To kiss his wife, hoist his children high up on his shoulders and give them some chocolates or other little treats he’d bought them in Cork. That night, he’d make passionate love to his wife and tell her how much he missed her and how much he loved her.

But here he was, thirty-five years old, and he had nothing. He had no one. Of course, his family loved him. He never questioned that at all. And he loved them back, maybe tenfold. He knew he had a massive capacity to love people, especially since little Rory and Dev had joined their family. Both now three years old, they never failed to warm his heart with their enthusiasm for life, their passion for learning new things, and their funny sense of humor.

He slowly opened the car door and grabbed his bag from the back seat. The door slammed shut harder than he had intended. With leaden feet, he plodded slowly to the kitchen door and let himself in.

Predictably, his mam was in the throes of boiling a kettle for a cup of tea and placed a still-warm apple tart on the table. The aroma made his mouth water.

“Heard you drive up.” His mother turned to him, a loving smile plastered across her face. She stood on tiptoes and threw her arms around his shoulders. “How are you, my love? I’ve missed you.”

As he always did, he picked his mother up like she weighed a feather and swung her around the kitchen, her feet swinging and her laugh ringing out. He kissed her head, loving the familiar scent of her shampoo, then gently set her back down on the floor just as the kettle on the gas hob whistled.

“I’ve missed you too, Mam.”

She threw some tea leaves into the pot, poured boiling water in, and replaced the lid of the teapot. Then she turned and surveyed her oldest boy from top to toe.

“Oh, Liam. You don’t half look like a very handsome man all kitted out in those clothes. You should wear them more often.”

“And where would I wear them, Mam? To the dairy? Eh? To milk the cows in them?”

He saw a light, a mere speckle, extinguish in his mother’s eyes, and kicked himself for being such a grump. He hadn’t been in a bad mood for a whole week, and here he was, home less than a minute, and he was already hurting the woman he loved most in the world. He strained to form a smile, managing one that he thought would probably convince her he was just joking. “’Course, I’d have all those doe-eyed cows trying to get me to breed with ’em if I did that, to be sure.”

He held his breath. Moira Cullen was no dill. She knew him better than he knew himself, of that he was certain.

She gave a brief nod. “Well, that’d make for front page news in the Tipp Times now, wouldn’t it?” She reached down and rotated the tea pot three times while it sat on a trivet on her kitchen table, then picked it up and poured two cups of tea. “I made yer favorite. Apple and cinnamon tart.”

“Aw thanks, Mam. Ye do spoil me. I’ve really missed your home cooking.”

And so, the following hour passed pleasantly, Liam’s mother eager to know every detail of his week in Cork. She was interested in the course, in the other farmers who went, and of course, in the teacher. He obliged her, telling her every detail he could remember. A pang of guilt made its presence known when it came to telling her too much about Aislin. His mam was at first surprised the teacher was a woman, then, after she asked how old, she was in deep shock.

“What are they thinking, having a bit of a girl like that teaching fully grown men? I’m sure Father Flynn wouldn’t approve of that at all. Disgraceful.”

And so, Mrs. Cullen never found out how beautiful Aislin was. He didn’t tell her about her beautiful green-blue eyes, and the way the sunlight glinted on her hair at about three every afternoon as it peeped in through the western window of the training room, reflecting copper-red highlights around the room and brightening his whole day. He didn’t bother to tell her how the cadence of Aislin’s words, the timbre of her voice, lulled him into a total trance as surely as if she’d hypnotized him. And he certainly didn’t tell his mam that he knew as sure as night follows day that he’d fallen in love with the beautiful Aislin O’Neill.

AUTHOR BIO

Noelle Clark is an Australian author of contemporary romance novels and historical fiction. Her books weave romance, intrigue, and adventure into colourful, exotic, and interesting locations around the world. Noelle infuses real life experience of places, culture, and people into her stories, giving the reader an authentic taste of the location. Her novels feature strong, mature heroines and heroes, who—often without knowing it—are ready for new beginnings. Noelle lives close to the sea in sunny Queensland, Australia, and shares her home with one cat and two dogs. She has two grown up children and four very small grandchildren. When Noelle’s not writing and travelling, she procrastinates a lot by thinking about travel and perfecting ways to get out of doing housework. Oh, and she babysits her grandchildren a lot.
CONTACT DETAILS

Website:  www.noelleclark.net

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NoelleClark.Author

Twitter: https://twitter.com/noelle_clark

BUY LINKS

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All other online retailers from June 30, 2015.

In which Daniel Craig loses to a hamstah AND much, much more….

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Christmas, Daniel Craig, Noelle Clark

 

 

 

 

Excuse me dudes…if I can be so bold as to stick my blabby big mouth in here, .can we loosen up and welcome today’s guests?

 

Well, you see the thing is today’s guests are yourselves.

Yes. The lovely Noelle Clark has done you a special blog

http://www.noelleclark.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/its-christmas-hamster-hamper.html

Oh quit it with the ungrateful whinges.

No. Cos I brought Noelle’s blog here for those of you who need to stop moaning.

Here it is…word for word what she said.

It’s the Christmas Hamster Hamper!!

 

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the hoose

Not a creature was stirring, except hamsters with tongues all a-loose

They whined and they argued, they’d cooked their own goose 

But the biggest question was, had they been naughty or noice?

Today I am celebrating the fun, friendship, and frivolity that our little friends, the Hamsters from Shey’s Blog, deserve. Today, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you —
THE CHRISTMAS HAMSTER HAMPER Let’s meet them all:

Mitsy

Ratsy

The DoodDO NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD EXCEPT THANK YOU, YOU LOT OR YOU WILL FACE THE WRATH OF SHEY.

Fez

Ginger

Dougal

Vinnie

McHoots

Bobsleigh

Tink

Hamstah Dickens

The Sheystah

Yes, the little pack of hamsters who have kept Shehanne Moore, and us, company all year are suffering from a very debilitating illness – Christmas Countdown Regret.
You see, everyone knows that for Santa to bring you presents at Christmas, you have to lead an exemplary life, a year of being kind, helpful, friendly, hard working. The big test comes a month or so before Christmas, as soon as all the supermarkets and department stores drag out the tinsel and trees.
And that test is: Have you been a good hamster all year? Have you been naughty or nice?

Okay, most of us lie through our teeth, and no doubt some of the hamsters will do that too, but a couple of the more…sensitive…hamsters will answer truthfully, and will wake up on Christmas morning with nothing under the tree for them.
So, in an effort to help Shehanne’s furry little friends step up a little and ensure that they get a gift under the tree from Santa, I’m going to teach them some rules.(We all know how much Shehanne loves rules.)

Rule 1: Thou shalt not whinge, whine, or carry on when Shey constantly overlooks you in favour of some fancy US Best Seller author, or some tramp who writes naughty books.

Rule 2: Thou shalt not interrupt when Shey is speaking. The consequences of you continuing to do this are awful. Heck, you’ve seen what happened to Mr Shey! He’s lost all his hair from being told to shut up all the time. A bald hamster will be a very cold hamster in the freezing Dundonian winter.

Rule 3: Thou shalt learn to bring Shehanne her slippers without her even asking; fill her wine glass before it’s empty; and help her in her new garden. Reason is, a happy Shey makes for a happy day.
Rule 4: Never, never, NEVER, interrupt Shehanne when she is on a deadline, or has edits to do. This will make her angry, and she will withhold certain important…favours…such as feeding you, changing your water bowl, and letting you visit her blog posts.

Time for some Christmas Carols.
Hint: sing this to the tune of the First Noel.

The first little Hamstah, appeared in Shey’s post

And to certain poor authors, they were the ultimate hosts.

Always cheerful and glad, and happy all the while

They brightened our days with their innocent guile.

Hamsters, hamsters, hamsters, hamsters

Move over Shey, and give room to hamsters.

Here’s a cute little guy to sing for you:

Well little hamstahs has Noelle Clark silenced you. Let’s ask what our visitors think.

 

 

T’was the Night Before Christmas….

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A season to remember, Christmas, E.E.Carter, Eva Scott, Free ebook, Noelle Clark, Susanne Bellamy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay….Okay… Can we just get back with the program here.

 

Today we have some very special ladies, not just with a FREE Christmas ebook

but some seasonal good wishes. Dudes, let us welcome…..

 

Eva Scott. Elizabeth Ellen Carter.

 

Noelle Clark and Susanne Bellamy

Now then, the exciting part, ladies, give it to us straight….what is your all time fav Christmas song and very briefly why?

 

Noelle  –  O Holy Night. I just love the way it soars. Hearing it never fails to make me tear up.

Eva – Little Drummer Boy for me. It’s the perfect combination of solemnity and joy.Gets me every time.

E.E.I agree with Noelle I love O Holy Night, but since she got there first 😉 I love Joy To The World

Susanne – Love IlDivo’s version of “Oh, Holy Night” too but for me, it’s “Six White Boomers” which is inextricably linked to my children’s delight in all things Christmas when they were little.

Ladies your favorite Christmas film and why?

 

Noelle  –  Can’t not watch Home Alone 1 and 2 each year, and now my grandchildren love them too. Extra fun. I love seeing the snow and especially the scenes in Central Park in HA 2.

 

Eva – While You Were Sleeping. Never gets old for me. And if I can be cheeky and pick two films the second will be Love Actually.Another great Christmas flick.

 

E.E.The Thin Man (1934) with Myrna Loy and William Powell. A murder mystery set at Christmas with the most sassy, romantic detectives you will ever meet. And, Die Hard (1988), just thing to watch while Christmas lunch settles.

 

Susanne – “White Christmas”. My family used to watch it every Christmas Day when I was a child. It’s tied in to my Mum and Dad and sister who are no longer with us.

Noelle. Can you give us favourite Christmas memory?

I have three siblings and ten nieces and nephews. When the nieces and nephews were all little, and mine were tiny, we all gathered at a local park at one of our nearby beaches for Christmas lunch. We’d all take food to share, play games, swim. Was fun. But then our families grew up and we now celebrate separately, with our own little broods. I miss those big gatherings.

 

Eva. Share a special Christmas recipe.

I host Christmas Eve dinner and my guests get to vote on what stays on the menu for next year. This is a huge favourite which I think you’ll enjoy for any special occasion.

 

Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake

1. Grease and line a 24cm spring form cake pan with baking paper.
2. Preheat oven to 160C.
3. Process 300g chocolate biscuits until smooth.
4. Stir through 125g melted butter and pour into prepared cake pan.
5. Using the back of a spoon smooth the biscuit mixture evenly into the base.
6. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
7. Beat 3 eggs and ¾ cup caster sugar for 1 minute.
8. Add 2 x 200g soften cream cheese blocks and beat until smooth.
9. If your cheesecake does crack simply smother the top with whipped cream and serve! Enjoy!

 

EE. How will you spend this Christmas?

My husband and I are ‘orphans’ but we’ve been adopted by some very dear friends, so after church, we’ll be going up to Mt Tamborine and drink champagne.

 

 Susanne.The low down on a fav Christmas Day game.

Our Christmases are spent at the beach with family. Games centre around the pool and usually involve a ball. “Piggy-in-the-Middle” mixed with baseball practice is the closest way to describe it!

Noelle.The hook for your story.

Look back on memories with fondness; but be excited about the future. Time stands still for no one, so love every moment of life.

 

 Eva.Two lines about the heroine in yours.

Molly is a gal who struggles to see that she’s fine just as she is. She’s warm, earthy, caring and just needs to see herself through Love’s eyes.

 EE. Tell us briefly about your hero.

Lieutenant Michael Renten is a naval officer who has been charged with exposing smugglers on the Devon Coast. He is tall, handsome and very resourceful.

 

 Susanne.  How does your story fit with the title? –

Christmas is about families coming together and the idea of giving, preferably not in a materialistic manner. The greatest gifts are life and love and “A Touch of Christmas” offers both in unexpected ways. The most memorable gifts are those made with love, time and effort. I hope my final image sums up this concept.

 Who or what would you most like to find in your stocking.

 

Noelle  –  A bottle of elixir that cures all sadness, illness, and poverty for every person on this planet.

 

Eva – Such a hard question! But I think I’ll settle on a housekeeper. (Are you listening G.W. Gibson?)

 

E.E. Actually, can I have the stocking? I love soft and silky stockings and they’re so hard to find now. Stay ups just aren’t the same with suspenders.

 

Susanne – Daniel Craig 😉 Failing his availability,

I’d be thrilled with a new Il Divo CD.

 

 

 

 

FREE DOWNLOAD – 

Title:         A Season to Remember

A Christmas anthology from four Australian authors

Eva Scott, Susanne Bellamy, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, and Noelle Clark

Release Date:  November 17, 2014  –  Available now

Free download from Smashwords:  https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/493542

 

 

Four Australian authors

Four great stories

One anthology

 

‘All that Glitters’ by Eva Scott

‘Three Ships’ by Elizabeth Ellen Carter

‘A Touch of Christmas’ by Susanne Bellamy

‘Sands of Time’ by Noelle Clark

 BIOS.

Noelle:

Noelle Clark is an Australian author of contemporary romance and commercial historical fiction novels. Her books weave romance, intrigue, and adventure into colourful and often exotic locations around the world. Widely travelled, Noelle uses real life experience of places, culture, and people as a backdrop to her stories, giving the reader an authentic taste of the location. Her novels feature strong, mature heroines and heroes, who—often without knowing it—are ready for new beginnings.      She lives close to the sea and shares her home with two cats and two dogs. She has two grown up children, and five very small grandchildren. When Noelle’s not writing and travelling, she plays guitar, tends her vegetable garden, enjoys the company of family and friends, and—of course—reading.

 

Eva:

Eva Scott writes contemporary romance set in her homeland of Australia and historical fiction set in the Ancient World. Her books offer passion and adventure in some of the most beautiful and intriguing places in the world. Her heroes and heroines are strong, sassy and ready to rise to their challenges, and learn a little bit about themselves along the way.

She lives on the Redcliffe peninsula with her husband, small son and an assortment of animals. When Eva is not writing she enjoys mentoring first-time authors, cooking up a story, practising yoga and getting out on the bay on her stand-up paddle board.

 

EE:

A future with words was always on the book for Elizabeth Ellen Carter who started writing her own stories when she ran out of Nancy Drew mysteries to read when she was 10.

Using her mother’s Olivetti type writer with the italic keyboard, she spent endless school holidays making up her own stories and then using the Dewey Decimal System to arrange and categories her bookshelf.

Somewhere around the age of 13 she determined to become a journalist and at 17 was awarded a cadetship to the Gold Coast Bulletin.

She covered news, council, education, health but had the most fun as the paper’s entertainment and features reporter covering film, TV and music.

Best of all she met her husband there and together they started a small award-winning media, marketing and advertising agency and now she works as marketing manager for an international organic skin care company.

In 2012, Elizabeth also returned to the keyboard to write stories (and laptops are so much better than manual typewriters).

Her debut, Moonstone Obsession  was shortlisted for the 2013 Romance Writers Of Australia’s Emerald Awards for unpublished manuscripts.

It was published by Etopia Press on October 18, 2013.

Her second historical romance is Warrior’s Surrender, set in England in the years after the Conquest of England by William in 1066.

It will be published by Etopia Press on November 7, 2014.

 

Susanne:

Susanne is an Australian author of contemporary and suspense romances set in exciting and often exotic locations. Her heroes have to be pretty special to live up to the real life one she married. He saved her life then married her. They live on the edge of bush land on a mountain in beautiful sunny Queensland, Australia with two children and their dog.

Paris will always be one of her top spots, and she fell in love with Scotland when they visited the west coast (nothing to do with fine single malts!), and recently had her first real trip to Italy–tick off one Bucket List item!  She has enjoyed New Year in Kathmandu and trekked in the Annapurnas, sailed in Ha Long Bay on a junk, and stayed on a floating hotel beside a tethered elephant in Thailand. The Peak in Hong Kong and Mt Faber cable car ride in Singapore are favourite spots. Susanne loves travelling to new places and exploring the culture and history, and meeting new people. These experiences are gradually being incorporated into her stories.

Her as yet unrealised dream is a trip into Earth’s orbit.

Susanne is a member of RWA and enjoys mentoring new authors. She is published with Escape Publishing, and will be a 2015 release author with Entangled Publishing.

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A Season to Remember

 Four short stories on the Christmas theme, spanning time, places. Uplifting, funny, thought-provoking, heart-warming, ‘A Season to Remember’ will make your heart sing.

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Author contact details:

Eva Scott     http://www.evascottromance.com/

Elizabeth Ellen Carter     http://www.evascottromance.com/

Susanne Bellamy     http://www.susannebellamy.com/

Noelle Clark     http://www.noelleclark.net/

 

 

It’s Hamstah week and the debt of Noelle Clark

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Hamster food, heroes, heroines, Honor's Debt, Ireland, Noelle Clark, recipes, Romance, Secret Cravings Publishing

 

DERMOT

Brian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honor’s Debt

 On a quest to make amends for a long-ago indiscretion, Honor unexpectedly discovers the one thing she’s been missing in her life.

 

Honor Quirk arrives in Ireland excited—and a bit anxious—about meeting up with the estranged family of her late great-grandmother. The welcome from the residents of Robinhill Farm, Dermot and Bryan, is confusing and far from comforting. One is warm, the other aggressive. The outwardly antagonistic Bryan makes it very clear he doesn’t want her there, branding her a gold digger.

Dermot, on the other hand, is delighted to meet her.

But Honor is no pushover and stands up to Bryan, letting him know that his bad attitude and trail of baggage have nothing to do with her. Despite their confrontational and hostile relationship, an undeniable attraction to each other creeps insidiously into the house on Robinhill Farm. They both desperately try to stifle the sparks, but living under the same roof makes it impossible. Unable to cope with the turmoil of living with Bryan, Honor runs away, straight into the arms of a charming newfound friend, Sean, who offers her a home—and love.

Shattered, Bryan finally takes control of his irrational belief that all women are evil, and fights to bring back the woman he loves. But is it too late?

About Noelle Clark

Noelle Clark is an Australian author of contemporary romance and historical novels. Her books weave romance, intrigue, and adventure into colourful and often exotic locations around the world. Widely travelled, Noelle uses real life experience of places, culture, and people, as a backdrop to her stories, giving the reader an authentic taste of the location. Her novels feature strong, mature, heroines and heroes, who—often without knowing it—are ready for new beginnings. She lives close to the sea and shares her home with two cats and two dogs. She has two grown up children, and five very small grandchildren. When Noelle’s not writing and travelling, she plays guitar, tends her vegetable garden, enjoys the company of family and friends, and—of course—reading.

 

Contact Links

• Website www.noelleclark.net
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NoelleClark.Author
• Twitter @noelle_clark
• Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Noelle-Clark/e/B00CENUDLC
• Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7046284.Noelle_Clark

 

Buy Links

Secret Cravings Publishing   http://store.secretcravingspublishing.com/index.php?main_page=book_info&cPath=4&products_id=978

 

Amazon     http://www.amazon.com/Honors-Debt-Robinhill-Farm-Book-ebook/dp/B00P9G3QF6/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415219200&sr=1-17&keywords=Honor%27s+Debt

 

B and N  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/honors-debt-noelle-clark/1120690761?ean=2940046390445

 

Kobo  http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/honor-s-debt

It’s Girl Friday with Honor and Noelle Clark

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Honor's Debt, It's Girl Friday, Noelle Clark, Rosamanti, writing

Hi Shey, thanks for having me here today to talk about my heroine in Honor’s Debt.

 

Okay Noelle, as you can NOT see, it’s IT’S GIRL FRIDAY where we dress up in pink hair bows to spill beans on our heroines.

So Noelle, what can you tell us about your latest heroine?

 

Honor Quirk has seen her fair share of tragedy in her young life. At the age of twenty-seven, she sets out to fulfil a promise that will repay a very old debt. She arrives in Ireland determined to carry out her mission. When she visits the old family farm in Tipperary, she finds conflicting welcomes. One person makes it very clear he doesn’t want her there and does everything he can to frighten her away. Another greets her warmly. Another wants her in his bed.

 

 

Right…..that’s it. Finitoville.

I don’t think anyone would want to be like you. What kind of hero do you match them up to?  

Not you, you klutz…Noelle..

In Honor’s Debt, Honor meets three men. There’s warm and friendly Dermot; there’s cold, brooding, bad-tempered Bryan; and there’s gorgeous, charming, flirtatious Sean.

Are your heroines nice or, well, you know?

Honor Quirk comes under the ‘nice’ banner, but she’s feisty and won’t put up with the antics of some people who seek to make her take responsibility for all that goes wrong on Robinhill Farm. She gives as good as she gets, but in private moments, she shows that the harsh criticism levelled at her hurts.

 

In a word, or maybe ten, how would you describe them?

Honor is straightforward, loyal, a fighter, likeable, and strong.

 

Why do you choose to write heroines who are nice?

I like writing heroines who are ordinary people – those with flaws, weaknesses, and strengths – just like most of us are. Readers are inherently good people, they can resonate with an ordinary person who gets some problems and issues thrown at them. Sometimes they stumble, sometimes they fall, but ultimately they are victorious. It’s good for the soul to read about nice people.

A line from the book to describe your current heroine?

“Shush.” She held up a hand. “Stop right there. Bryan, even I get angry sometimes, and I apologise for swearing at you, but you infuriate me sometimes. Other times you’re an okay guy. But I’ve let off my steam now, so let’s just get back to being friends again. Okay?”

Her favourite line or motto?

There’s a promise in a debt of honour, and forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid.

Tips on creating a believable good heroine?

A good heroine is one who engenders some sort of emotional response from the reader, whether that be love or hate. There can be no compromise.

That’s it for today. Honor’s Debt is the fab Noelle’s WIP.

 But if it’s anything like Let Angels Fly and Rosamanti, it will be a winner.

Fate drew her to Rosamanti. Love made her stay…

After the death of her husband, best-selling mystery author Sarah Halliman has lost her desire for just about everything. Desperate to break out of her funk and rediscover herself, she answers a newspaper advertisement—For lease: Isolated villa on Capri, Italy. Must love cats. Traveling alone to the beautiful island of Capri, she locates Villa Rosamanti, a gorgeous 400-year-old dwelling nestled in the hillside of Monte Tiberio. Above it lies Villa Jovis, the 2000-year-old villa of Emperor Tiberius, ripe with history and intrigue.

Sarah soon discovers a strong resonance with Rosamanti and its gardens and quirky pets. She begins to feel a deep connection to Elena Lombardi, the deceased owner. But it’s not just the villa Sarah’s fallen in love with. Elena’s grandson, Pietro, is handsome and charming, the epitome of the passionate Italian. His dream is to own a restaurant of his own, but such dreams are for wealthier men.

Between the sparks that Pietro kindles in Sarah’s heart—and her kitchen—and the mystery of nearby Villa Jovis, Sarah’s muse begins to stir. She senses stories in the ancient stones, and romance in the phosphorescent blue waters of the Blue Grotto. But when her curiosity takes her to Elena’s library, a child’s notes and maps lead Sarah to a mystery that could be the answer to everyone’s prayers—or perhaps, be the destruction of everything they hold dear…

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As simple as ABC..not. Blog hop

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Anne Lange, Catherine Cavendish, Kate Furnivall, Noelle Clark, writing, writing processes blog

Anne Lange the 12 Days Blog Hop Buddy, I don’t know about dah hamsters, I’d be thinking twice. Do you know she pinched two of my guys for a ménage…

http://authorannelange.com/2014/04/04/interview-with-flint-and-callm/

She called it an interview….but do we ask for water in the middle of interviews? Still maybe her stays were too tight….so, okay I’ll believe her although hundreds…… MIGHTN’T. Sharon Struth and Incy Black to name two.

Anyway the lovely Kate Furnivall….presently in Italy, researching, so maybe I might not forgive her either… Oh okay I sent her a  Maximus Decimus Meridius  commander of the armies hamster…

to show there were no hard feelings. The lovely Kate, author of

 

 

 

 

 

to name but a few of her fabulous books, passed me the Writing Processes Blog Hop baton, last Monday. http://www.katefurnivall.com/blog-hop/

Yay! So now the hammies and I are going to answer some questies for you. Oh, it’s only four, you can take it. I’ve so much doing getting the PC back in order I am not even going to delay.

Obviously this blog. But then there’s the trying to get the younger daughter out of the hair and the emails answered etc etc etc. I am working hard on that you understand, so just maybe I can ratchet a newly added  scene up several notches in my recently completed WIP, which I don’t want to say too much about…other than it has a Viking in it with a name that sums him up. And an equally delightfully named heroine who has a big choice to make.

Sil and Bobsleigh here, they are working on holding up placards.

Er… Well, I guess I just can’t do frills and flounces. Or nice people,  from nice backgrounds either.

 Because I was that desperate to break into writing and I was tired of rejection, of being told I could write but… But even then I HAD to have my characters my way. And I have to say that while genre romance isn’t my first love, or choice, I do love writing about what makes people tick, and I do love having them knock all the lumps off each other. I leave the bedroom door open because I feel you’re seeing all their hopes and dreams and vulnerabilities there and because sex is a great bargaining counter. And I guess at one stage or another in each of my books my characters use it for just that. Naturally. it backfires.

 

GAWD.. Well, I’ve said before with a lot of

and

 

and hair tearing.

I don’t know how it works. Works… if only! Okay.   I get an idea flash first.  In His Judas Bride, it was Kara baring all to the wrong man  to get into Lochalpin.

Loving Lady Lazuli, it was the coach on Christmas Eve and Saff planting these emeralds on Dev.

In The Unraveling of Lady Fury it was her former lover turning up just as she’s ..er..interviewing suitable candidates, I won’t say for what.

Then I think a bit about the characters, their goal, motivation, conflict, what kind of people they are and start. But the thing is what goes on the page is never what I was hoping. Captain Flint was meant to be a nice helpful ex lover. Honestly.

The Black Wolf was meant to be patient and Hawley a poor, much abused soul….

Marveling at him too, that when he suffered so much…it did nothing to stop him making other people doing the same.

SO that’s where the trouble starts when they .come off the page the exact opposite.  Then I never have any idea of the plot. I just run like the white rabbit with it. I usually end with roughly 100000 words. That’s really when I start thinking what is the main theme here. I go through and cut 20 thou to centre stage that theme. Then I add 10 thou of what is missing regarding the theme.

I do not set out to do any of that. It just happens.  What I know is it is like being on a tightrope. I never look ahead. I never look down. I just put the next foot on the rope and hope. This far my faith has been rewarded.

I can but I have to pass the baton so I am.

To

Catherine Cavendish http://www.catherinecavendish.com/

and

Noelle Clark http://www.noelleclark.net/

both lovely ladies, both fabulous authors, Catherine of horror, and Noelle of romance set in exotic locations. So please pop over and visit them. Their blogs will go up next Monday BUT  they always have some fabulous posts. I’m just heading over to catch the last few of Cat’s, which I kissed with having no pc last week!

 

 

She kissed him then she reappeared

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Antonia Van Zandt, Etopia Press, Glencoe, Incy Black, Loving Lady Lazuli, Noelle Clark, Shehanne Moore

No. That’s not her, hugging an inn sign. That is me. But you can see that after sticking the Wentworth emeralds on Dev, Saff’s been appearing all kinds of places… With the fabulous Antonia Van Zandt..

http://antoniavanzandt.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/loving-lady-lazuli-sensational.html

the fabuloustotally to be recommended by the way. She’s now with the equally and marvellous……

and there’s an amazon card giveaway. First stop today is here.http://bookstolightyourfire.blogspot.com/  The fire being books that are hot…. not books you might use to stoke yir hearth up with cos they are minging.

On release day she was here

a very stupid place actually

But may I say the hypothermia is much better now? And wasn’t the Lochan pretty as always?

I also think I may have set a record time for getting off a mountain top.   Saff needs to stop kissing Dev… But she won’t.  Anyway she was also here…

and yes I am reblogging. Noelle Clark author of Rosamanti and Let Angels Fly  did such a great Q and A job of this piece about the Sisterhood, , I gotta share it!! Unlike when Incy Black reblogged her homecoming post recently  and called it Blatant Duplication, this is

Absolute Duplication…..

                                NOELLE CLARK

Loving Lady Lazuli is Book 1 in the new series: The Starkadder Sisterhood. London Jewel Thieves, and focuses on Sapphire, one of the eight members of the Sisterhood.

As you’ll see, the sisterhood are not part of a religious order, however they certainly lay claim to some odd, and even dirty, habits.

Shehanne, can you tell us a little about Sapphire, and why you chose to write her story first?

Firstly Noelle, thank you so much for asking me here today to your lovely blog. It’s a great pleasure  for me to be here. I value it and I value your friendship too. Okay Sapphire, well, Sapphire has been stealing since she was five years old. There’s mysteries about the years before that, before she and her brother Matthew, wound up in London with ‘Uncle’ Starkadder.

These are mysteries she wants to solve. She’s the number one jewel thief. The woman who can pull off any heist. The mistress of disguise.  But this gang is like Fagin’s in a way. The girls don’t gain anything from their efforts. They are forced to steal. Every time Sapphire refused  she was beaten till she agreed. So she and Ruby determined to escape. They’ve spent ten years planning it and they’ve faked their own deaths to do it.

I never meant to write about her first or indeed write a series. I only ever start with a spark of an idea. In this instance I saw Christmas Eve and this beautiful sixteen year old girl walking along the highway in distress so this young man offers her a lift in his coach. She plants a stolen necklace on him and he goes down for it. Lol! I’m sure you know what it’s like. If I had written this twenty years ago that scene would have been chapter one and all the action would have taken place after it, with them ending up as convicts in Australia or something. But now, Regency romance is so popular, that’s not how you’d write it. So that scene became the backstory.

When I got to chapter two and the idea of her past, and the girls coming into her thoughts, I found I was naming them after jewels, and I saw I could make up stories  about their lives after the gang breaks up,

This sounds to me like it will be your most powerful book yet. You always have extremely strong heroines, and they get into some tough situations, but do you consider Sapphire to be your grittiest girl yet?

Hmm. I don’t know. Fury bolted over her emotions and Kara was fairly tough, although she bubbled away underneath. Sapphire has her emotions in control. Being  gritty without making that special effort is second nature to her because she’s been getting out of tight corners since she was five years old. In some ways she doesn’t know any better that way. It’s what makes her so confident about dealing with Devorlane Hawley, when the sensible thing to do would be to bolt. That’s  her undoing–greatest strength, greatest flaw thing– as I am sure you can guess.

There are eight girls in the Sisterhood – Sapphire, Amber, Diamond, Emerald, Splendor, Ruby, Jade, and Pearl. Can you share with us which of the sisters will feature in Book 2?
Splendor features in Book 2. She’s actually not a thief. She’s Dora-Do-It-All, their general skivvy. But she would like to be like them, so she has all these airs and graces. That’s why she calls herself Splendor.

On your Pinterest board, I notice that Pearl looks totally out of place among the strong, sassy, sisterhood. You even describe her as “Pearl – plain as milk”. Does that mean that Pearl won’t get to star in her own book? Is she really too plain? Or does she have a dark side?

Pearl does look out of place and that is deliberate. She is only fifteen in Loving Lady Lazuli and she actually isn’t a ‘proper’ thief like the other girls. She was being trained. Anyway when Sapphire and Ruby made their plans to escape from the gang they cut in Pearl in as they couldn’t stand to see her having the kind of lives they’ve had. She’s not the brightest spark. All the stories are set over a period of years after the gang has broken up, because Diamond has murdered Starkadder, so cutting forward, Pearl might get her own story.

 And that’s it…after Splendor, I want to tell Diamond’s story after all, she’s for the drop isn’t she? AS for Pearl….well…hmmm. I just might.

You  cans e more of Noelle’ blog here.

http://www.noelleclark.net/

And now, for something completely different….

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Adrienne deWolfe, Alison, Antonia Van Zandt, Celestia, Elyzabeth M, Etopia Press, Incy Black, Loving Lady Lazuli, Mediums, Noelle Clark, Ranting Crow, Scoundrel For Hire, Shehanne Moore, Valey

Oh, I know you will be saying but what could be more completely different than a crow providing puddings? https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/5275/ –I’ve got the recipes by the way and will be sharing them along with tomorrow’s guest, my lovely doodling buddy, Elyzabeth M Valey.

We also have Dev back rescued by the Incy Black cavalry and the Starkadder Sisterhood, after Fury pinched him. How she did it…well that’s here.

http://furiousunravelings.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/1275/

The Starkadder Sisterhood themselves are over here today with the lovely Noelle Clark. Or rather I am answering questions about how they came into being and spilling some beans on them generally.

http://noelleclark.blogspot.com/2014/01/loving-lady-lazuli-new-release-from.html

But to answer that BIG question about something different….Honeys you ain’t seen nothing yet.

So, so far the actual program is looking like this. (You will appreciate I need to remind myself)

Yep. Of course we have additions…

But we do need to add to the event program and so today I have invited my lovely Texan Celt buddy author, Adrienne deWolfe

who I first met when I was on a blog tour on her blog (with a name like that I got to love this girl and make her an honorary Scot, so of course I did) and she  has sent a very special visitor….

CELESTIA

a medium no less. And just any medium. Madam Celestia Cooper (fortune-teller, extraordinaire if you please) is a rather eccentric woman in her mid-40’s, who wears a purple turban, genie pants, and elf shoes (you know the kind that curl up at the toes?)  (Doubt Saff would nick them)

She specializes in crystal balls and palm reading. In the novel, her nickname is “Cellie”. (oops, let’s not tell Flint that one since it’s the name of his dead mistress.)

SO without more ado, I am going to hand you over and let’s just see what Celestia has to say about this little homecoming. Will Dev even come in? Is there anybody there in his family? And if there are what messages do they have for him?

Hello, Dearies! by Adrienne deWolfe or rather CELESTIA

My, how lovely you all look today at Shey’s recital:  all sparkly and golden.   Angels in the making, I daresay.

Except for that Lazuli woman, of course.  Now THAT character really is a handful.  She can’t sing for her supper, so she pinches it.  My darling Dev had better watch his family jewels – especially the ones below his belt, if you know what I mean.

I beg your pardon?

Well, of COURSE I know what I’m talking about.  That Lazuli chit pinched the emeralds and stuck them in Dev’s pocket – right about the time she was sticking her tongue down his throat.   I know all, because I see all.

Uh . . . by the way.  You didn’t happen to notice my crystal ball around here, did you?  The little rascal seems to have rolled off somewhere.  Balls have quite a mind of their own – but I don’t have to tell YOU that, do I Dev dear? Always cavorting with elves and fairies and drunken dragons.

No, no, my darling boy.  The CRYSTAL BALL, not your bollocks.

Now then.  Where were we?  Oh yes!  My crystal ball.  It’s not tucked under my turban.  (Why, thank you, Belle, dear.  My turban IS a lovely shade of amethyst, isn’t it?)

And the crystal ball isn’t tucked inside my sash . . .

Oh, bother.   Now where did this stick of dynamite  come from?  Honestly, I find the strangest things stuffed inside my belly-sling.

 Tavy must have sneaked it into my sash for safe-keeping after she romped through the mine.  She’s quite irrepressible, as otter pups go. Why, in the middle of my last séance, Tavy had everyone thinking she was a ghost!  Chased a cheese puff right under Silver’s skirts!  You’ve never seen such a commotion!  Bullets flying, women fainting, chandeliers dropping glass shards on everyone’s heads.  Is it any wonder the spirits were NOT amused?

Speaking of spirits . . . I have a message for you, Dev dear!  Your brother Ardent has come all the way from the great Beyond.  Goodness gracious, I’m afraid that Ardent’s a tad miffed at you!

 Ardent 

He says that since he was so obliging, and dropped down dead just so you could inherit his manor, the very LEAST you could do is start saying nice things about him.  Especially to that sot you call a sister.

Tilly

Ardent also wants you to know that Papa loved him best.  And that you should stick your head inside the loo.

I beg your pardon, Devorlane?  Was I filching from the liquor cabinet?

Nonsense, dear boy.  I only talk to spirits.  I don’t drink ‘em.

Well, my darlings, I do believe my time is up!  Shey has many other guests on her program to entertain you!  But before I go, I really MUST remind you to look for me in the pages of SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE (which SHOULD have been named after me.  But alas, that author-twit named my book after my son-in-law, Rafe.)

Speaking of SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE, I have a little treat for you today!  That’s right, dearies!  A scene straight out of the novel!  It’s my moment of triumph!  My fifteen minutes of fame!  (It’s also quite possibly the ONLY reason that book ever became a #1 bestseller on Barnes and Noble.)

And now, without further ado, I give you that bestselling, award-winning, FABULOUS historical romance novel, SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE (which is only 99 cents today, for all you lucky Nook and Kindle owners!)

Ta-tah, my darlings!

SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE

(Book 1, Velvet Lies Series)

By Adrienne deWolfe

Book Description

Raphael Jones is a Kentucky-born scoundrel, who has never played by the rules. When Colorado mining heiress, Silver Nichols, hires him to stop her precious daddy from marrying a golddigger, Rafe sets out to seduce Silver and win her fortune.

But beneath Silver’s cool veneer, Rafe encounters a sweet vulnerability and an aching secret that threatens to send his whole world up in smoke.

Now the wily scoundrel must choose: walk away or wager the one thing he can’t afford to lose—his heart.

SCOUNDREL FOR HIRE

(Book 1, Velvet Lies Series)

By Adrienne deWolfe

Excerpt:  The Séance Scene

“The spirits speak of danger, yes,” Celestia said solemnly, in answer to Silver’s question.

“What kind of danger?”

Celestia closed her eyes, rocking rhythmically for a moment behind her crystal ball. Her purple turban listed aft, allowing her blonde curls to jut past her ears, like corkscrews. But somehow, as Celestia waved her chubby, bejeweled fingers over the odd mist that was rising in that ball, Silver had to concede that the fortune-teller maintained her dignity.

“Retribution,” Celestia announced dramatically.

Every man who’d been holding his breath at the séance released it on a gasping rush of air—and just as quickly gulped another.

“Hot damn,” Papa muttered. “Penhalion, you and your boys aren’t planning any dynamite mischief, are you?”

The squat, feisty miner scowled. “Now see here, Nichols, we may be immigrants, but we’re law-abiding—”

“Gentlemen, gentlemen.” Celestia held up her hands for silence. “Please. Communication with the otherworld is a delicate matter. One cannot bully answers out of spirits. One must show gratitude. And respect.” She shot a blistering look at Buckholtz, who was scribbling notes into his news reporter’s notebook.

“Now then.” Celestia settled more comfortably on her pillow, threw her slipping shawl over her shoulders, and gripped her crystal ball once more. “I shall ask the questions. You will listen for answers. Spirits, is someone in this circle in danger?”

Everyone in the room jumped as an audible thud answered her query.

“Does one rap mean yes?”

A single rap answered, this time from the other side of the room.

“How will you answer no?”

Two raps sounded close to the window. So did a faint scratching noise.

“How the devil is she making those sounds—”

“Shh!”

Everybody at the table glared daggers at Buckholtz for interrupting.

“Is a man from this circle in danger?” Celestia intoned.

One rap. Silver frowned, glancing uneasily at the shadow-steeped walls. Had Papa helped his fiancé rig the knocking noises? If so, how had they done it so convincingly?

“Will there be bloodshed?” Celestia demanded.

Silence rolled like a tangible fog through the candle-lit chamber. Silver counted five, perhaps six heartbeats before the answer finally knelled: One rap.

“For heaven’s sake, who is it? Who is it!” Daisy wailed.

“Is it the husband of Daisy Trevelyan?” Celestia intoned.

Two raps.

The elderly socialite sobbed with relief.

“Very well,” Celestia said. “Then we shall determine who among the remaining gentlemen it is. Spirits,” Celestia called, her voice rising in volume and power, “we seek the intended victim’s name. Kindly knock when I state the first letter. A,” she said slowly. “B.” Each syllable resonated with dramatic authority. “C—”

A horrific crash drowned out her voice. Papa leaped to his feet. So did Rafe and Daisy.

“It’s the ghost!” Daisy shrieked, pointing at a renegade crab puff. It bounced from the armchair

to the floor. Before everyone’s astonished eyes, the pile of china on top of the cushion toppled, shattering into a dozen pieces. Slowly, spookily, the white ticking on the armchair began to rise.

“Merciful God on Sunday,” Buckholtz choked, his eyes bugging out to twice their normal size. The ghost gave a sleepy bark, and the newsman drew his .45.

“No!” Rafe shouted, lunging for the newsman’s arm.

The Colt fired. Plaster showered from the ceiling. Daisy wilted in a dead faint.

And the ghost, yiking in terror, streaked out from under the ticking to dash beneath Silver’s petticoats.

……………OOH!!! SO there we have it for today. It only remains for me to thank Adrienne,  tell you  a little about her and some of the other work she does, AND to add that tomorrow’s guest Elyzabeth M. Valey will be showing us the invitation cards she designed plus revealing Ranting Crow’s fabulous recipes as we continue the countdown to Dev’s homecoming and my reveal of Chapter One.

About Adrienne deWolfe

Adrienne is a #1 best-selling author and the recipient of 48 writing accolades, including the Best Historical Romance of the Year Award for Texas Wildcat (Book 3, Texas Wild Nights) and Doubleday’s Book of the Month Selection for His Wicked Dream (Book 2, Velvet Lies.) Adrienne is excited to announce that she will be donating a portion of her royalties from the Velvet Lies Series to urban reforestation efforts.

Fascinated by all things mystical, Adrienne writes a weekly blog about dragons, magic, and the paranormal at http://MagicMayhemBlog.com to help her research her upcoming paranormal romance series. She also writes a weekly blog featuring tips about the business of writing at http://WritingNovelsThatSell.com. She enjoys mentoring aspiring authors and offers professional story critiques with her book coaching services.

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Enter the Crow

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Etopia Press, Incy Black, Loving Lady Lazuli, Nick Marshall, Noelle Clark, Ranting Crow, Shehanne Moore

Firstly, far be it for me to say anything, but….

I mean Dev  seems to have vamooshed despite the fact that

I really don’t want to have to go ask Fury about it but I have a horrible feeling…… Just when Incy reblogged the post too explaining how

after a jostled retreat from my own heroes, Nick, Jack and Will, Nick Marshall stepped up, hiding his concern of travelling back across the centuries.

http://incyblack.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/blatant-duplication-almost.html

AND after Noelle Clark mugged this up for a giggle…..

she’s gone and pinched him although how I have no idea. We must just hope that Nick and just maybe the Starkadder Sisterhood can put this right if the business Fury is taking care of involves kidnap. Tomorrow we continue with the actual event program.  The reason I feel fearless about it is that tomorrow one of these lovely ladies is sending us a very special guest who will soon find Dev.

Hopefully not in a brothel at that IF that is really where he is.

Yesterday we had the lovely Alison showing us just how tastefully and beautifully she could make Chessington sparkle and be the kind of place you’d want to properly stay in. https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/welcome-to-chessington/

as opposed to turning it into a brothel.

Today I am welcoming a special guest amongst the lovely ladies I’ve come to know since setting out on this game…

.okay that’s more robin there, but…  Crow,  is well, seriously? Crow is Crow. And I wouldn’t be without his comments. (Besides if Fury has got Dev, you think I won’t do a swop here when Myrtle the parrot has the hots for our feathered friend.)

Seriously Ranting Crow is a great poet and writer. He does a weekly Heart Ship chapter about lost love and also  a zany on going tale about Milady Chambelle and McSniff…cats by the way.

http://rantingcrow.wordpress.com/author/rantingcrow

But he’s also busy with other things and my fingers are crossed this will be the year for him.

So, what’s Crow doing for the homecoming. Well firstly he hasn’t come empty handed. Noticing Noelle’s Pietro had no sweets,

https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/meet-the-family/

and of course not wanting to suffer the fate of being baked in a pie, Crow has provided his devilish his top secret ..

                        (Saff would steal these)

Pina-colada cupcakes and

          (Saff would steal those too. I would steal these)

Marguerita cupcakes. ……

In fact had Saff made off with these ten years ago instead of

and just eaten them instead, the story would be quite different. As for Dev after being ten years in the army….

the indignities he’d suffered as a duke’s son in that damned regiment to begin with, how they’d
pissed in his food—pissed on more than his food

I would think Dev might be tempted by these cupcakes. Crow certainly does. That’s why he’s perfectly willing to  help Alison enhance Chessington by  sitting in a nicely guilded cage. Although  I must say now he’s done so and we want these recipes……

even if crows hate being caged.

 

So, the music is playing , the food is circulating, the place is sparking, the security is back up and running and the bird is caged, tomorrow we welcome a lady with special powers….

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