A sight to gladden any author’s heart…

20 Mar

Apparently there is NOTHING ON EARTH quite so satisfying as being given a big box full of copies of your very own book, all pristine and new and waiting to be signed. Who knew?

I’ve always said that I’m not at all hung up on the famed mystique of seeing your book in physical form but actually I had NO IDEA just how satisfying it feels to really hold it in your hand, flick through the pages and actually be able to TOUCH your own words. It’s pretty bloody amazing actually.

Many many thanks to Clive Birnie of Burning Eye who has done a superb job not just with the cover but also with the text itself. It’s a genuinely beautiful piece of work that I can’t wait to share with you all.

Oh it is so exciting!

Blood Sisters is due to go on sale around the fifteenth of April and will be available to both UK and international buyers from here, the Burning Eye site and Amazon. There’s also a good chance that there will be special edition paperback versions of Before the Storm and The Secret Diary of a Princess: a novel of Marie Antoinette as well at some point in the near future!

Right, I’d better get to work signing these books!

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Categories blood sisters, books, posh doom
Author Madame Guillotine

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11 Responses to “A sight to gladden any author’s heart…”

Maggie March 20, 2013 at 2:19 pm #

This is awesome, congrats!

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Sarah Waldock March 20, 2013 at 2:25 pm #

Oh yes, there’s nothing like holding your first physical book! as someone who came to publishing on Kindle a way down the line I have to say I never felt the buzz the way I do holding a new book. Congratulations! the buzz never diminishes, at least it hasn’t for me…

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gailynne March 20, 2013 at 6:25 pm #

Congratulations, Melanie. Can’t wait to read it and I look forward to the Minette book.

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sianushka March 20, 2013 at 6:42 pm #

congrats! it really is an awesome feeling. when mine arrived i carried one copy down the street as i didn’t want to let go!

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Jen March 20, 2013 at 7:20 pm #

Squeallllllllls!!! Yay!!

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Magali@TheLittleWhiteHouse March 20, 2013 at 8:44 pm #

Congratulations! It must be so rewarding!

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Michelle @ The True Book Addict March 21, 2013 at 5:34 am #

Gorgeous, just gorgeous! Congrats!

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Evangeline Holland March 22, 2013 at 7:18 am #

Beautiful! Congratulations!

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Alison March 22, 2013 at 3:03 pm #

They are so pretty too, which is a bonus!

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Tara from Maryland March 25, 2013 at 12:04 am #

Congratulations; they look lovely!

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Annie March 25, 2013 at 8:39 am #

Congratulations!!!

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Madame Guillotine

"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is." - Anne of Green Gables.

I am Melanie Clegg, an authoress of novels of POSH DOOM, history geek, Versailles obsessive, Paris lover, historical fiction writer, Victorian Prostitute re-enactor, Art History graduate, committed vegetarian, GIN taster, curry lover and Pimms addict living in deepest darkest Bristol with my family.

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Minette

To know her was to love her...

Born in the very heart of the dangers of the English Civil War, smuggled out of the clutches of Parliament as a toddler and then raised in near penury in exile in France, the charming and beautiful Princess Henrietta-Anne Stuart, youngest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria is the original Cinderella, waiting breathlessly and with some trepidation for the moment when her family’s fortunes will be restored and she can reclaim her proper place in the world.

The first book in my two part series about Minette, the youngest and favourite sister of Charles II is now available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Blood Sisters

My second novel, Blood Sisters was inspired by the stories of several intrepid, courageous and amazing women who lived through the upheaval of the French Revolution, in particular the Princesse Joseph de Monaco, Emilie de Saint-Amaranthe, Princesse Rosalie Lubomirska and Lucile Desmoulins, all of whom followed very different destinies.’

‘The French Revolution was a period of political upheaval, and of terrifying and appalling violence. I wanted to interweave that political background with my story so my heroines weren’t just passively sitting at home waiting for men to do everything, but getting out there and making history themselves.’

Blood Sisters is an historical epic with a romantic, adventurous edge, and out now for Kindle from Amazon US and Amazon UK. Blood Sisters will be available as a special edition paperback from the 15th of April but you can preorder copies now! Hurray! The first forty will be signed so don't delay if you want one that I've scribbled on!