Tag: The Lucky Diamond
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Happy Book Birthday – to The Lucky Diamond
3rd November 2021 saw the launch of The Lucky Diamond, my first middle grade children’s fantasy. It’s been a wonderful, exciting, stressful, and busy year! My dream of seeing my book on the shelf in bookshops was realised when The Lucky Diamond was stocked by the two largest bookstore chains in Ireland plus independent stores.…
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Book Launch: Revenge of Queen Rose
I am thrilled to announce that today, Monday June 27th, is publication day for book 2 in my middle grade fantasy series, Revenge of Queen Rose, so this is a special post to mark the occasion. June has been a busy month for me, between interviews, delivering fantasy writing workshops to eager and very talented…
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May Plans and Writing Update
I don’t have a book review this week as I have been working hard on various projects, all related to children’s fantasy and my writing. Revenge of Queen Rose The sequel to The Lucky Diamond will be published on 27th June. Editing is complete, it’s been sent to be formatted and I hope to get…
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The Lucky Diamond – Happy week birthday!
The Lucky Diamond was officially launched! Buy the paperbook and ebook in Amazon here : Buy the paperback in Barnes & Noble here or on request in any bookstore. The Lucky Diamond is also FREE to read in Kindle Umlimited The Lucky Diamond received a glowing review from the UK Book recommendation site LoveReading4Kids earning…
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The Lucky Diamond book launch
My Middle Grade Children’s fantasy The Lucky Diamond is now officially available, in paperback, ebook and on Kindle Unlimited. It’s taken several rewrites, a wonderful beta reader, what felt like endless editing, and I am so grateful to family, friends, my editor, cover designer, my writer group friends, and my virtual friends in the Writing…
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The Lucky Diamond & Magic
In my earlier posts I introduced Yvonne, Susan, Vicky, Alan and Cathy, the five orphan heroes of The Lucky Diamond (click on their names if you missed it). Today I want to talk about their magical gifts (pictured above). As their mother was dying, she passed on a special treasure or ‘gift’ to each of…
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Double Trouble with Twins Cathy & Alan
Ten year old twins Alan and Cathy are the youngest of the five orphaned siblings in The Lucky Diamond. Almost always together, they are fiercely loyal to each other and intensely independent. The twins do their own thing – but for some reason their antics never earn a rebuke from eldest sister Yvonne. Unlike Vicky,…
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Vicky – Star of The Lucky Diamond (in HER head!)
Meet 12 year-old Vicky, courageous, heroic, protector of her family – or so she likes to think! Vicky is third of the five orphans, in reality a source of anxiety to both her older sisters. Vicky and her antics are likely to draw the attention of the town guard to the family, and she is…
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Meet Susan from The Lucky Diamond
Susan is 13 years of age, and the second oldest of the siblings who set off on a dangerous magical quest in The Lucky Diamond. Susan is sweet and kind, a peacemaker between sisters Yvonne and Vicky, a comforter for twins Cathy and Alan, and a rock of support for Yvonne, who struggles with the…
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eARCs Available for MG Fantasy The Lucky Diamond
A quick post to say that ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) in ebook format available of my first book, Middle Grade Fantasy The Lucky Diamond – please contact me if you would be interested in a copy! Here’s the blurb: “The whirlclouds erupted on all sides, buffeting the boat first one way and then the next,…
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