Win a signed copy of Fever Cure
June 11, 2012
So, the Jubilee celebrations are over and it’s back to ‘normality.’ We spent the Jubilee week at a wedding, followed by a week in gorgeous Cornwall – and despite a few gales and rain, we actually had a lovely time with BBQs on the beach, body boarding and walks along the ruggedly beautiful coastline. We watched the spectacular Jubilee concert and loved seeing so many communities decked out in bunting and royal-themed decorations – including this house below in the Cornish village of Constantine.
While I was away, the paperback version of my Samhain release, Fever Cure, was published and this week I’m holding a mini-launch. The book is a sexy, emotional romance and is set in London and at a country estate just outside the capital. The hero, Tom takes the heroine, Keira to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Covent Garden at one point, and they’re surrounded by fire-eaters and street performers. I love the bustle and vibrant atmosphere in Covent Garden and I’m actually in London later this week to visit my new editor and the team at Little Brown. Very exciting…
Settings are very important to my books, and locations have inspired several of them. So my question for the contest is:
Have you ever visited a place just because you read about it in a novel? Or is there any location – real or fictional – you long to see after reading a novel?
Please post below and I’ll draw a name out of the hat on Friday June 15th. The contest is open to anyone, anywhere in the world and I’ll sign the book for you.
Here’s the blurb:
The road to heartbreak is paved with honorable intentions…
After a year dealing with her mum’s health scare and the end of a bad relationship, Keira Grayson was looking forward to kicking up her heels at her best friend’s wedding. Until she kicks off her (spare) knickers in front of the trifecta of perfection. Tom Carew. Son of an earl, honorable doctor and possibly the hottest man on the planet. One look at Keira’s delightful embarrassment, and Tom’s hormone meter spins off the charts. Trouble is, his bags are already packed to return to the jungles of Papua New Guinea. He has patients waiting-and amends to make for a terrible choice that left devastation in its wake. They both reason that indulging in a one-time dinner date won’t hurt…until their inhibitions melt away in the heat of their lethal sexual chemistry. Leaving Keira wondering if a sizzling fling is just what the doctor ordered, or another prescription for relationship disaster. And Tom fighting a battle against inner demons that could shatter both their hearts.
You can get the paperback and the e book from Amazon.com and Amazon UK, Book Depository, B&N and direct from Samhain.
Posted by Phillipa @ 4:07 am | Leave a Comment
Jodes Says:
In 2004 my cousin and I went to the UK on what we called a literary tour. Chawton and surrounds for Jane Austen, Bath and Lyme Regis for Persuasion, Brighton for Lydia “I want to go to Brighton” Bennett… I insisted on visiting Thirsk while we were in Yorkshire, as I grew up with All Creatures Great and Small, both the TV show and all of James Herriot’s books. Seeing where Alf Wight, the real James Herriot, lived and worked was a dream come true (and the sets from the show were an added bonus!).
Fictionally, I would love to visit Hobbiton. I hope to visit the sets in New Zealand one day, but Tolkein’s hobbiton would be magical! Speaking of magic, Narnia has to be on my list as well. I would be quite happy living in my own little book world 😉
Phillipa Says:
Jodes – you’re not alone. I persuaded MrB to take me to Lyme and I actually jumped off the Cobb, Louisa Musgrove style (but only from half way down the steps, I’m not totally crazy. Ahem.)
Paula Says:
Im actually saving up as hoping in two years time to go travelling around Europe , but after that Ive been googling up Literary Tours around the UK and found some perfect ones to Bath , Stratford Upon Avon, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles House, Haworth House, The Lakes District. I would be in heaven touring around the UK to all the different authors and classic sights.
Kareby Says:
Like any American, I would love to do a Austen tour. From Bath, to Lyme, to the wilds of the Peaks. It’s so very trite. We American’s can’t get enough of her.
I would also like to see the Scottish coast a la Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea and the Stone circles in Outlander.
Phillipa Says:
Not trie, Kareby, because it’s what we Brits all do/want to do as well! If you docome over, I don’t live too far from Stanage Edge in the Peak District where P&P was filmed – it’s in North Staffordshire around 40 miles from me, as are many of the P&P and Jane Eyre locations. 🙂
Anne Says:
I leave almost every great novel with a longing to visit- from Hogwarts to Bath, Middle Earth to Forks (which I did visit but long before it became famous), each time a book and its characters comes alive for me the world in which they live creates its own magic.
Jane Lovering Says:
When I worked in Cornwall (Tregony, between Truro and St Austell), I took my motorbike around the sites mentioned in Daphne Du Maurier’s ‘The House on the Strand’. Spent ages trying to work out where Isolde de Carminowe’s house would have been in Tywardreath! Recently found the book again in a second hand shop, bought it, and promptly lost it…
Hazel P Says:
I would love to visit Sticklepond, it doesn’t exist other than in Trisha Ashley’s books (and my head when I’m reading and no doubt Trisha’s head). There are some weird and wonderful people live there, a witchcraft museum, fab shoe shop and a wonderful stately home not far away that has Shakesperian links (possibly) and wonderful knot gardens. 🙂
Felicia Says:
I dream about visiting all the sites in Jane Austen novels. Especially Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. Of course I’d also have to include seeing all the places where Jane Austen lived.
Best wishes with the paperback release!
Felicia
Leanne o'brien Says:
The lake district is a place i would like to visit. I have been twice with primary school many years ago experiencing rockclimbing,canoo-ing and other physical activities.(This i would now find exhausting)lol.I would like to go now i am much older so that i can appreciate its beauty. 🙂
Phillipa Says:
Loving all the suggestions for literary visits… how great it would be to have a meet-up at some of these sites. 🙂
Joy Isley Says:
i am always looking for new authors to read and your book sounds really interesting.
Jackie Wisherd Says:
After reading James Michner’s book TEXAS I took a trip to some of the places mentioned in his book…I especially enjoyed seeing The Alamo…while reading about it it seems so big but in actuality it is a very small building.
Diane Burns Says:
More like the other way around. I visited Savanah Georgia and then started reading books by Mary Kay Andrews!
Wendy Loveday Says:
Ross Poldark – A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham followed by the rest of the series made me fall in love with Cornwall and I was lucky enough to do my seconday education and teenage years there – what a place – most of my family are still down there and I visit as often as I can now.
Felicia Says:
Phillipa, That would be a dream to have a big meet up and some of the sites! What fun!