Read The Charm for free!

Hello! Chapter Three has just been published on wattpad. Have a read! :)

http://www.wattpad.com/story/30635066-the-charm

It's FREE!

Hello! I have decided, after 7 months of promoting and selling The Charm via Amazon, I'm now going to publish it chapter-by-chapter for you to read FOR FREE! Visit my wattpad profile, click and read! It really is that easy! Oh... and let me know if you love it / hate it / how you'd have liked the story to end. All comments gratefully received! smile emoticon

http://www.wattpad.com/user/tracyjanehefferon

Happy New Year and Thank You :)

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has bought The Charm so far. It has been selling steadily since its publication in June last year and I get some lovely emails and messages and comments about it, which is always very heart-warming and appreciated.

I got stopped in a shopping centre in Peterborough recently, by a lady who'd read it on holiday, and she told me how much she'd enjoyed it. She lives in the next village to me and said she'd spent ages trying to match the character from the book to real life people who live around me! That made me smile because in actual fact, none of the characters are based on anyone in my village, but she obviously had a great deal of fun playing detective! I'm keeping mum about the character of Rose though... she 'might' be loosely based on someone I used to work with several years ago ;)

If you would like to read The Charm, you can find it here for all eReaders:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Charm-Tracy-Hefferon-ebook/dp/B00KWL9HVA

or here if you fancy a good, old-fashioned paperback:

http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/tracy-hefferon/the-charm/paperback/product-21700255.htmll

Thank you for dropping by :)

I'm back!

After what seems likes weeks of battling bugs and preparing for Christmas, I am finally getting back into writing mode. I have finished the final draft of The Fourteen Years Between Us and am starting to source agents to approach with a submission. In the meantime I have written a synopsis for my third book and also the first chapter! I'm very excited about this new project because it falls into a different literary genre yet again. The Charm was a paranormal romance novel, TFYBU is for young adults but my third book – as yet untitled – is a thriller. It's a no-holds-barred story containing taboo subject matter and sexual deviation and I can't wait to get my teeth into it! I'll post snippets of it on my blog every now and then to give you a flavour of what's to come... Watch this space! :)

Feedback!

I've just sent the first four chapters of The Fourteen Years Between Us to three teenagers to read and report back. It's pretty nerve-wracking, to be honest! I can't wait to hear their feedback but am nervous about what they might say as well! What if they hate it?! Time will tell...

I've been working on the book again this past week, adding detail mainly and taking needless back story out. I am very lucky to be receiving advice from somebody who works within the industry. Just having someone guiding me and rooting for me to succeed is brilliant and I am already indebted to her for the help and support she has given me this year.

Fingers crossed, with all the editing done, I am one step closer to fulfilling my dream. And if I'm not, then I'll just keep plodding away until I do get there :)

Milestone Moment!

I've just checked in to Blogger Central and I've had my thousandth page view! Amazing! That's a lot of people. Not quite in JK Rowling's league but I'm still chuffed to bits :)

I've just started approaching agents with The Fourteen Years Between Us. I've sent the first three chapters to an agent who really likes my work and requested The Charm as a total manuscript to consider. She eventually declined to take it on because of the paranormal element to the book but she encouraged me to write for Young Adults and I was grateful for her advice. I'm on tenterhooks waiting for her feedback... it's pretty nerve-racking. 

Fingers crossed.

Wine and a storyline

On Thursday night I went to see an old friend of mine (who read The Charm chapter by chapter as I wrote it and is now demanding a sequel because the ending was too sad :)) and I ran my latest storyline past her. The plot was dreamt up in half an hour on Wednesday. I have always wanted to write a book with a dark, sinister and taboo storyline, and I touched on it briefly with The Fourteen Years Between Us, but as that particular book is for young adults, I had to draw the line somewhere. With book number three there will be no drawing of lines. It will be a no-holds-barred tale of intrigue, mystery and prohibition. It is based upon somebody I once knew and the way she lived her life always fascinated me. She lived a deeply religious, solitary life despite wanting more than anything to meet a decent man, who shared her values and with whom she would eventually share the sanctity of marriage. But my leading lady, who I have already named Judith, will see her morals being shattered as she is introduced to a life so surreptitious, her whole world is turned upside down.

My friend had goosebumps as I told her the story, and by the time I got to the end, the hairs on her arms were standing on end... which in my view, is a damn good reason to get it down on paper!

Book Number Three has been born! :)