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Celebrate with me - Romance Novel Knockout! Now in Paperback
Started Jul 2, 2012 0 Replies 0 Likes
To celebrate the launch of my romance novel in traditional paperback I am giving away 2 copies on Goodreads on the 1st of August 2012.If you would like to be in the draw, follow this link to…Continue
My Romance novel is FREE on Monday 9th April 2012
Started Apr 6, 2012 0 Replies 1 Like
Just to alert anyone looking for a FREE romantic read - my Novel Knockout! A passionate Police Romance is on a 24 hour free promo on Amazon Kindle all day on Easter Monday (usually turns free around…Continue
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Celebrate with me - Romance Novel Knockout! Now in Paperback
To celebrate the launch of my romance novel in traditional paperback I am giving away 2 copies on Goodreads on the 1st of August 2012.If you would like to be in the draw, follow this link to Goodreads Giveaway of Knockout!entries close on 31st July.Good luck!Emmax…See More
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My Romance novel is FREE on Monday 9th April 2012
Just to alert anyone looking for a FREE romantic read - my Novel Knockout! A passionate Police Romance is on a 24 hour free promo on Amazon Kindle all day on Easter Monday (usually turns free around 9am).Here is the link: Amazon link to free bookThe book is…See More
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"Knockout! my #romance novel is FREE on Kindle Saturday and Sunday (28th 29) http://amzn.to/Ap62yQ there is also a short story & audiobook"
Emma Calin commented on Francine Howarth's group Self-Pubbing/Indie group!
"Hi there Francine - thanks for starting up this group. I would love to join! I have self pubbed 2 books with a third on the way for a friend but still learning lots - especially with regards to marketing and selling the little beasties…"
Melanie Robertson-King left a comment for Emma Calin
"Thanks for the birthday greetings! And the friend request, of course.
Melanie"
Emma Calin left a comment for Francine Howarth
"Wow - it's inspirational to hear about folks like you who have had a lot of success over the years and know the business.
My books have only come out since the Kindle revolution and so far all my sales are in the USA - I guess that's where…"
Francine Howarth left a comment for Emma Calin
"Sorry, hee hee, just read your previous comment.
Ooh yes, it can get a bit rough in the Kindle forums from time to time. I think one needs either those red boxing gloves of yours or elephant hide. I'm not sure Kindle forums are…"
Francine Howarth left a comment for Emma Calin
"Hi Emma,
Thanks ever so for the friending. Blogging is good fun, and worth putting up blog/web site urls on FoR so that we can all connect via our blogs. I recently posted a historical novella The Highwayman's Mistress to Kindle.…"
Emma Calin left a comment for Francine Howarth
"Thanks for the welcome Francine. It seems really friendly here :-) which is most refreshing after some of the Kindle discussion groups on Amazon.
Congratulations on your contract and on your self pub book too - will you carry on self pub…"
Francine Howarth left a comment for Emma Calin
"Hi Emma,
Welcome to FoR. The cover of your book says it all: boxing gloved hunk and Eiffel Tower. Nice one!
best
F"
Emma Calin posted a status
"Good afternoon fellow romantics. Glad that I have finally found a British website dedicated to Romance!"
Profile Information
- What are you?
- Author
- About me
- I was born in London in 1962.I currently live in deepest rural France but return frequently to the UK for family duties and business.
I have been writing since childhood and have won numerous local, national and international prizes for poetry and short stories. I published a short story 'Sub-Prime' and a romance novel 'Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance' in 2011. I blog daily about the trials and tribulations of life as a romantic novelist living abroad, as well as social comment on local, national and international news and events.
I have never woken up to a day when I didn’t want to write, even when I have been working in hotel kitchens, stuffing feathers in a mattress factory, operating a bakery oven and all manner of temporary office work. If I can write at all, then all those days contribute something to each page.
- Favourite quote
- "I can resist anything but temptation." Oscar Wilde
- Favourite romantic books
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Favourite romantic movies
- Moulin rouge, Muriel's Wedding, Frankie and Johnny
- Favourite romantic heroes
- Romeo, Fitzwilliam Darcy
My e-book Romance
Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance - from Amazon in Kindle formats
Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance - for Nook, EPUB, iPAD, KOBO, Sony, and PDF
Description
Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional passion as she fights to keep her professional cool. Who is deceiving who in this fast moving ride across continents? What motivates her art loving prize-bull of a lover Freddie La Salle? The power of love and trust stands against greed and crime as conflicting forces grapple for that knockout punch.
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance,
By
Kel Gress (Kutztown, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance (Kindle Edition)
I love the story of Anna & Freddie.
I really enjoyed the plot of the story and especially the ending.
It really kept my interest in reading the story!!!
I really enjoyed the plot of the story and especially the ending.
It really kept my interest in reading the story!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars Really loved this book,
By
This review is from: Knockout! A Passionate Police Romance (Kindle Edition)
Wow. This book kept me reading into the wee hours of the night. Not only is it a compelling mystery, it's also a sexy love story. The passion between Anna and Freddie is worth reading just for itself, but the Interpol/police story line was extremely interesting. Great book; just the thing for a summer read. It's well written and I was totally swept up in the world of the book. That's what reading a good book is all about, isn't it? You get to leave your life for a while and be entertained by someone else and their problems. Anna is a strong woman, and it makes for great reading as she struggles to overcome problems, both past and present. Powerful love story with a punch.
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 9:13 on May 20, 2013,
Hywela Lyn said… Happy Birthday for Tuesday!
- At 17:51 on November 3, 2011,
Melanie Robertson-King said… Thanks for the birthday greetings! And the friend request, of course.
Melanie
- At 19:57 on October 11, 2011,
Francine Howarth said… Sorry, hee hee, just read your previous comment.
Ooh yes, it can get a bit rough in the Kindle forums from time to time. I think one needs either those red boxing gloves of yours or elephant hide. I'm not sure Kindle forums are good for the soul. :o
As to self-pubbing despite contracted contemporary novel. Yes, I'll keep going with Kindle and paperbacks as I have a few pre-published romantic mainstream novels, inclusive romantic suspense that are way out of print and rights reverted. I have several erotic pre-pubbed novels kicking around on a pen-stick and again rights reverted. I also have a hot potato historical out on submission with Choc-Lit, but kind of expecting that might get cast to the fires of publisher hell and cindered for being too risque sex wise. It's titled "Scandalous Seduction", and touches on a historical Lolita type twist in the first half. Regretted of course by the heroine, and the actual hero is to die for. ;)
best
F
- At 19:26 on October 11, 2011, Francine Howarth said…
Hi Emma,
Thanks ever so for the friending. Blogging is good fun, and worth putting up blog/web site urls on FoR so that we can all connect via our blogs. I recently posted a historical novella The Highwayman's Mistress to Kindle. It's set during the French Revolution at the time when the royals were taken from Versailles to Paris! I went purely on memory re distances between places and worked out in my head how long it would have taken travelling with horses and coche. Having had horses all my life that was pretty easy stuff to work with. I love history so research wise again re times of events in sequence a fun thing to do.
What made you go for a passionate police drama? ;)
best
F
- At 13:57 on October 11, 2011, Francine Howarth said…
Hi Emma,
Welcome to FoR. The cover of your book says it all: boxing gloved hunk and Eiffel Tower. Nice one!
best
F
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