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If you go to my Goodreads blog: www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2... you’ll see a little more information but I thought some of you might like to know that I haven’t been twiddling my thumbs for the last couple of years, I’m actually hoping to publish soon… hope is a wonderful thing, don’t you agree?Here’s some info on what should be published this September:
Title: Mistake in Time
Genre: Time Travel Romance
Available for sale: On Amazon Kindle and Paperback
Blurb: To keep this post shorter, the blurb is on my blog only at the moment.
Some chapter titles
Chapter One - A white sports car
Chapter Two - The old, musty case
Chapter Three - They will have no tomorrows
My first time travel romance, Hide in Time is a stand alone book and so is Mistake in Time but they share certain settings etc. This, apparently, means they are an 'anthology series'.
I hope you’ll enjoy a romp through time.
Time Travel Romance, new release from Anna Faversham which is also in the adventure/mystery and a few other genres!
Have you ever been a little hasty and made a mistake? Liberty Taffet has. She thinks it doesn’t matter and she can put it right but some things just don’t work out.
Follow Liberty (and the two men who follow her) into her life-changing adventure.
Mistake in Time
Prices are reduced until 4th October.
Also available on Kindle Unlimited – Free!
Mistake in Time's first review:
Readers' Favorite 5 star review
"There is a wonderful romanticism about time travel. The idea of moving to a simpler period of history that we admire in order to escape the complex and messy aspects of our modern lives is a deeply appealing one. That romanticism is captured wonderfully by author Anna Faversham in her new novel which sees protagonist Liberty get so lost in the idea of escaping her life into the past that a mishap sees her sent to the wrong past entirely. The author’s prose does a marvelous job of bringing to life the feel and spirit of the 1960s, with descriptive writing that made me feel like I was walking down the streets of London. This gifted prose extends to the protagonist herself with quirks and mannerisms that made her feel fully realized and grounded in reality. Overall, Mistake In Time is a fun and exciting adventure through the ages with an engaging protagonist adventuring through a vividly realized vision of the swinging 60s. "
Phew! What a relief!
Mistake in Time
Prices are reduced until 4th October.
Also available on Kindle Unlimited – Free!
Have you ever made a mistake? Liberty made one that couldn’t be put right. In her haste to distance herself from her two-timing love-of-her-life, she sets off to go to Regency England. Simple. She knew exactly what to do to get there. What could go wrong?Find out more on https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
“…rooted for her, as she tried to courageously navigate through her problems…”
If you fancy going on a journey that goes wrong (!) please take a look at Mistake in Time
I opened my emails at the beginning of October and got a shock. One of my oldest books had won a prize and I began to look at the dear old thing with new eyes – the eyes of the Readers’ Favorite reviewer, who is now one of my favourite people!“One Dark Night by Anna Faversham is a very good book offering romance, danger, adventure, mystery, excitement and so much more and I found it was very hard to put down. I really was rooting for Lucy to end up with a good life for all the grief she had endured and was hoping she would pick the man I liked best. I also hoped that all the bad people would get what they deserved. Anna Faversham did a perfect job of combining all the elements into one winning story and I highly recommend One Dark Night be added to your reading list.”
I hope you will like
as much as the reviewer did.If you take a look at my blog https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... if you wish you can also tell us how a particular choice changed your life.
This book gives you a glimpse of what lies beyond... (or does it?)
“The pacing is great. The dialog is great. The sense of place is … phenomenal.”
“…you’ll love watching Chester’s world slowly unravel.”
“I realised just how clever the plot is”
“His yearning for Kate was also intriguing; what had happened between them, would they be reunited?”
“…the storytelling is so skilled that the layers of meaning are revealed and understood in good time, and to powerful effect. A compelling novel that I didn’t want to put down, this is a highly-recommended read.”
All the above are Goodreads’ reviewers and are obviously intelligent, kind, wonderful people! I promise I am not related!
If you pop along to my blog, you’ll find an excerpt too:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
It’s good to treat yourself occasionally and at 0.99 it doesn’t cost much. (US and UK) So sorry NZ - but...!!! the book is set in my lovely NZ.
Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel 0.99 until 4th May or FREE with Kindle Unlimited.
I was looking for a quotation on Google and noticed my name. Always best to find out why! It came up on a website called Quote Fancy. I checked.https://quotefancy.com/anna-faversham...
One of the four quotations of mine that it features is one I wrote for my book
which is set in New Zealand.I remember standing on 90 mile beach, ankle deep in the sea and watching the waves roll in. Magical. Whipped out my mobile and described what I saw. Of course, others would have taken a photo but, being a writer, I had to describe it.
Quote Fancy has obviously seen it somewhere and selected it.
As I read it, it took me back to that moment in time which will forever be with me.
I would so love for our inspirational NZ quotation to receive thousands of likes!
If you like ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, you might like this - or so I'm told: Immortality: This Is Probably a NovelYou are invited into a mystery and the world's best kept secret.
£0.77
$0.99
Ca$ 1.30
Aus$1.45
and similarly low-priced across the Amazon world. The paperback is also greatly reduced.
Why? The world is experiencing many problems including tough financial ones and the very least I can do is to offer a book at rock bottom prices.
Here's what it's about:
Chester, an investigative journalist, is in fear of his life and hides out in a remote part of New Zealand, 12,000 miles from Kate, the woman he loves. His quiet life is interrupted when a stranger knocks on his door and transports him to the world’s best kept secret. True to his training, he keeps a diary of his perplexing experiences, all of which he dismisses as impossible.
As his life becomes more alarming, his longing to see Kate grows. Yet how can he explain to her what he can’t bring himself to believe? After she reads his diary, she becomes his lifeline helping him to understand that he must warn others of the danger just like a lighthouse does.
Dr Seuss said, "Reading can take you places you have never been before.” This book will take you to London, New Zealand and the Caribbean. It will also take you to places I'm 100% sure you've never been.
Currently 4.76 rating on Goodreads
(my thanks to reviewers)
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Thank you, Carol.I enjoyed writing the part set in New Zealand best of all - I just loved being there in my mind. I set it mostly in a friend's cabin.
Light up someone’s life – or make them think hard. If you have a favourite quotation, would you like to share it on my blog? https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
This month’s bargain book is
It's a time travel romance and Liberty finds herself pursued by two men and escapes into an unexpected time. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare - and time travel doesn’t help either!
0.99 in US and UK. And, as usual, it is free on Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited.
Please pop over to the blog and leave a good quotation from a book you've read or written.
Toddle over to here:https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
to exercize your memory and also find a trilogy - 1.98 for all three books.
0.99
0.99
And if you've read #1 and #2, here is a FREE gift for you.On the blog you can see what reviewers say about them
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
The world seems to be going through some strange, anxiety-creating times: war, floods, fires, heat waves and more.I hope you will hop over to https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... where you might find some reasons to be cheerful – and please add your own reasons in the blog’s comments and spread a little much needed enjoyment and, if you can, some laughter too.
This month’s bargain is
an Amazon best-seller. 0.99 from 27th September to 3rd October or FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Louisa, a Goodreads reviewer says, "When a book allows me to become one of the characters....aahhhh, perfection!" You might also like to know that
This has been reduced over many territories and for those with access to Kindle Unlimited, it is, of course, FREE. Paperbacks are US$7.25 and £5.95. You can sit back in an armchair and enjoy travelling to London, New Zealand! the Caribbean and to places you’ve never heard of and will never want to go to again. Why would any author write about places you wouldn’t want to go to ever again?
Merry Christmashttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Something a little different this month as this is the month when many of us will be scratching our heads (or whatever you do when you absolutely have to do some thinking). What to buy for Christmas presents? Easy: a book. It’s something that lasts, can be treasured, can be shared and most of all can bring joy – and that is precisely what Christmas tends to do.
I’ve done your searching for you. Ahem. Three of my paperback books have been reduced in price to the very lowest that Amazon allows for authors in their Kindle Direct Publishing. At their very lowest, the author receives nothing. So that’s me! I’d like them to have been even cheaper but Amazon have to make their money…
A Time Travel Romance has some nice Christmassy chapters. Amazon Best SellerUS - $7.40
UK - £6.30
Canada - $9.70
Australia – $14.50
A Time Travel Romance, taking you back to the Swinging Sixties and even further back Readers’ Favorite 5* reviewUS - $7.95
UK - £6.75
Canada - $10.50
Australia - $15.50
Goodreads reviewer said, “The pacing is great. The dialog is great. The sense of place is … phenomenal. Great balance in the storytelling…”US - $7.25
UK - £5.99
Canada - $9.35
Australia - $13.99
Find out more on the blog:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I wish you all a very happy Christmas.
It’s a Wonderful Worldhttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I’ve recently returned from a trip Down Under and I spent some time at a favourite beauty spot, a café in Scorching Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Munching brunch, I remembered a scene from one of my books set just around the headland in Breaker Bay which features in
“Suddenly he saw it: the most magnificent roller advancing steadily towards the shore. A shout went up and all paddled furiously towards the beguiling breaker. He caught the wave, stood and steadied himself. The magic carpet took off; he was flying once again. For a few precious moments the exhilaration bore him up to surfers’ heaven – no drug could compare.”
And then something shocking happened.
And, if you have access to other Amazon territories, it’s reduced to 0.99 in the US and UK from 25th February to 1st March 2024.
Also FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
Find out more on https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
In the US on 4th July you are celebrating: here in the UK we have a General Election. On 5th July, the UK will be reeling from the results – whatever they are.Many people are worried about the future. I found on my travels earlier this year that our friends in New Zealand and Australia have similar worries to us. Friends in the US and Canada say the same. Thousands of miles away, yet we face similar worries and threats.
Many writers and health practitioners over the years have given us tips on how to cope with worries. As a reader and writer, I would say: read a good book. And it’s true, isn’t it? If you get lost in a book, you’re in another world.
Hop over to the blog and read more and add your thoughts please – we need good tips
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
One person who found he was up to his ears in trouble is Chester. Chester manages to get through some horrendous situations but eventually he helps others on the way. As an investigative journalist, he’s come up against a crime gang. And when he gets to New Zealand, he finds life is not quite what he imagined and he narrowly misses… well, I’d better not give out any spoilers.
It's on a Kindle Countdown Deal from Thursday 27th June, through until 3rd July 2024. For 0.99 if you live in the UK or US, or not much more if you’re unable to get the deal. And, of course it is FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
Beware the Midnight Train – October release of spooky mysteryhttps://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
If you follow the link it’s a short cut to more information about a shivers-down-the-spine mystery. Some of the characters never get to shiver, some are cool even in the face of… of what? Just be careful to check you’re getting on the right train.
In the blog you’ll start to get the ‘feel’ of the book, so please take a look and let me know what you think of the title.
If you’re in the northern hemisphere I expect the nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. For Ellie, the young lady who’s chosen to live in Flint Cottage, it’s spring and the days should be getting longer. But sometimes the days get much shorter and so do the nights. She should have known better. But at least it’s not boring.Chapter Four – A few drawbacks. (Life’s like that, isn’t it?)
Chapter Five – Real cool . (If you saw a ghost, would you be real cool?)
Chapter Six – Do you believe in ghosts? (What on earth can you say?)
Hop over to the blog and find out a little more.
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Quotation from Beware the Midnight Train:
‘Don’t try to predict your future – be brave, create it. And create it she would! The past is behind. Her future begins today.’
I didn’t intend to launch this spooky book close to Halloween – it was meant to be finished in July or August. ‘Things’ got in the way. Ghosts will be ghosts and it seems I was overuled, so late October it is then.If you’ve been following my other blog posts in the past couple of months, you’ll know something about this time travel book (with a slow burning romance bumbling along). But did I mention that the ghosts want Ellie to do something for them? The dishy vicar cautions Ellie. The loveable, zany, almost famous neighbour cautions her too. Does she take any notice? Okay, you can guess the answer – but would you? And when you find out the worrying consequences of time travel, would you still be determined to seek justice?
Beware the Midnight Train will be reduced until 14th November so please take a look soon. Here's the link:
The paperback will be published on 25th October.
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Have you ever looked back on your life and seen a theme? I doubt that most of us have. But if you have, I’d love to hear about it.
Here’s where to tell us:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
If you are a reader, I’d love to know what theme you feel authors never tackle. Or, tell us your favourite theme in books in general or in a single book.
If you are an author, please tell us how you arrived at the theme of one of the books you have written (no links please but do put the title).
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There’s also a stress reliever tip for the tough times ahead.