Category: House for all Seasons

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I’m #5 – Top 10 Best Selling Debut Novels 2013

Well, well, well…

Blow me down! I am #5 best selling author on the official Nielsen Bookscan list 2013. (The folk at Nielsen collect all bookshop sales info – printed books – to rank and report on sales across Australia.)

And a pretty impressive list it is too …

 

 

Not hard to guess numbers 1 and 2, but to see so many friends and acquaintances sharing the top 10 with me is mind blowing. (Let me bold and highlight that, in case you miss it!)

1. Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
2. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
3. Thornwood House – Anna Romer
4. Redstone Station – Therese Creed
5. House for all Seasons – Jenn J McLeod
6. Ryders Ridge – Charlotte Nash
7. Be Careful What You Wish For – Gemma Crisp
8. Walking on Trampolines – Frances Whiting
9. Fractured – Dawn Barker
10. The Russian Tapestry – Banafsheh Serov

I will try and feature all these authors on my blog sometime during the year. Maybe I can get them over for a bar yarn and beer nuts in the Calingarry Crossing hotel!

Right now I am going to get a sharp object and burst the bubble (and the big head – before it gets bigger) and get back to my writing. Book four in my Seasons Collection is on the plotting board and I am very happy about that.

To my lovely readers – thank you for embracing House for all Seasons. I hope you enjoy Simmering Season just as much – maybe more. I am, as yet, undecided which book I love the most. I think… maybe… it’s the one I’m writing right now! 🙂

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Imagine – House for all Seasons on the big screen!

movie dealWhat author doesn’t dream about having their novel made into a movie or an Australian mini-series?

I never considered this a possibility for House for all Seasons. I mean, why would they bother? We all know the ending – right? The ‘twist in the tale’ that people have been raving about is, well, it’s out there… Well before the first scene has been shot the cat is out of the proverbial bag and the horse has well and truly bolted.

It appears that knowing the ending of the story is not the death knell for a Hollywood blockbuster.

Case in point: Ryan Gosling (hubba, hubba) is tipped to play the lead character in the movie adaptation of M. L. Steadman’s The Light Between Oceans. Do we not know how that story ends? What would makes us want to spend money at the box office to see the film when we all know we are going to ball our eyes out as the credits roll?

Is it a Kleenex conspiracy perhaps?

No, it’s because we want to see characters we’ve fallen in love with, cried with, hoped for, laughed with come to life. It’s the characters. We want to fall in love all over again.

I’ve been discounting the movie dream all this time because I figured while Calingarry Crossing is a town keeping big secrets, the secrets in House for all Seasons are out. But if it’s about falling in love with the characters then I reckon my girls would be brilliant on the big screen.

What do you think? If you have a favourite character and an actress in mind to play her, let me know and I’ll pass it on. 😉

Ahhhh! Time to reignite the movie deal dream, perhaps.

Read more at Booktopia: http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2013/09/04/ryan-gosling-to-star-in-adaptation-of-the-light-between-oceans/

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HOUSE Giveaway! ~ House for all Seasons is at Nicole’s place!

The great ‘House’ giveaway has begun!

First stop…? Out Moree way with the lovely Nicole Alexander.

Nicole websiteYep, Nicole has a signed copy of House for all Seasons ready to deliver to your (Australian) postal address.

To enter, first stop by Nicole’s blog where I’m rambling, chatting, being all very professional and serious as a guest blogger. Nicole’s waiting for you – Come on over.

(Open for two weeks from date of post.
Australian postal address only)

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