Competition winners!

Congratulations to Laoise McMahon, who has won the complete CHRONICLES trilogy from AS Quinn, and to Harriet Povey, Beverley Humphrey and Maisy Norwood, who have all won a copy of THE SQUICKERWONKERS (possibly the best title of any book EVER). Your prizes should be on their way to you very soon! 🙂 Continue reading →

A Guest Blog from Helen Watts

Helen Watts has worked in publishing for 25 years, editing books on a wide range of subjects. Now, after years spent shaping other people’s words, she writing her own. She’s here today to tell us where she gets the inspiration for her books. Welcome to GHB Helen. People often ask me how I come up … Continue reading →

Games to play with your bookshelf

It’s nearly Christmas and the time of parlour games is upon us.Just a wild guess: do you have lots of books at home? I bet you do! If not, you might want to read this in a library. This is a fun game I play whenever I have a spare moment and a bookshelf full of … Continue reading →

NaNo – The Result

  So, it’s the end of November (or nearly), and for the last 28 days I’ve been spending every spare minute available on my new story, and now it’s done. Sort of. If you happened to see my last blog post I was talking about my latest writing adventure  – National Novel Writing Month, or … Continue reading →

Cover reveal: Red Moon Rising

My fantastic publisher, Nosy Crow, have decided to update the book jackets of the first two novels in my Faerie Tribes series before publishing the third one.  Fashions in covers change just like fashions in clothes and this means that book jackets get altered and updated. Red Moon Rising is a fantasy story set in … Continue reading →

Christmas countdown

I’m so excited about a particular book at the moment. It’s … the Girls Heart Christmas book of short stories, of course, by ten authors from this wonderful blog. I bought it yesterday as an early present to myself and can’t wait to read it. Next time they have such a fabulous idea, I hope … Continue reading →

Help me name a book

What’s in a name? asked Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Answer – Quite a lot for an author as the title is the first thing along with the cover that someone knows about your novel. Will it be love or hate at first sight? That’s why discussions with my publishers about the right title for the … Continue reading →

Girls Heart Christmas – the news gets better!

Yesterday I spent most of the day with an enormous smile on my face. Why? Because ‘Girls Heart Christmas’ was published on Amazon for Kindle and other devices by Girls Heart Books, with lots of hard work from the wonderful Jo Cotterill and Julie Sykes. Then to top it all off, I looked on Amazon … Continue reading →

Cute Christmas video from The Book People

Last year The Book People created a very sweet video for Christmas – and this year they have a brand new one, with a fairy and books and – well, actually, that’s our Christmas list sorted right there: books and a fairy 🙂 Enjoy! Continue reading →

GIRLS HEART CHRISTMAS IS HERE!!!

HURRAY HURRAY HURRAY!! Today is a LANDMARK in the world of Girls Heart Books, because today for the very first time, we bring you a totally UNIQUE book – the ebook GIRLS HEART CHRISTMAS This anthology contains ten stories from your very own GHB bloggers: Alex Campbell, Jo Cotterill, Paula Harrison, Joan Lennon, Luisa Plaja, … Continue reading →