You can read a small piece about  Rowan in yesterday's online edition of the Leigh Reporter here.   

There is an interesting interview with Aubrey de Grey, the biogerontologist and life-extension researcher, in The Manitoban here  which is worth reading.   

Preview of paperback cover for Rowan Here's a preview of the cover for the paperback edition of Rowan (ISBN 978-1470139537), which should be available to buy by the end of March.  You can buy the ebook version right now from Kindle.  For the time being, the digital version is exclusive to Kindle as part of their KDP Select project.  So far, even though the Rowan ebook was only published eight days ago, sales are doing rather nicely.  Take a look at the dedicated page here, if you haven't already, to learn more about this novel.   

A glorious afternoon tempted me into the front garden, hedge strimmer in hand.  Ours hadn't been pruned since mid-autumn, so it was looking straggly.  When I get a Round Tuit, I want to redesign the front garden.  There are a few camelias - my favourite white one's coming into bloom now - and a lovely white rose that I want to keep, but the shrubs and "ivy cascade" (ie. tangled mound with tentacles) can go.  As things stand, it looks like the design didn't turn out quite according to plan - which is an accurate assessment.  It was supposed to be easy-care but everything grew like crazy and took over, but not in an interesting way.  In the back garden, in the Grove, everything went wild too but that looks and feels wonderful, but then this fits the context. One of the things I plan to install is a pond, as we get quite a lot of amphibians here.  Putting a pond in the back garden would invite disaster as Ygraine loves pa...

Rowan lives with secrets. His family know nothing of his life after his mother banished him from the family home.  Rowan is attracted to the handsome and vivacious Aiden, a member of Morgan Gruffudd's secretive community of artisan-sorcerers.  But blackmail threatens to destroy the new life Rowan has been building.  People are dying - and Rowan is caught in the middle of a secret war . Rowan by Adele Cosgrove-Bray ASIN: B007ASQYIC Available now on Amazon Kindle. Visit the dedicated page for Rowan here to learn more - just use the menu above.   

Read a mini-interview with me here at Morgen Bailey's site.  Enjoy!   

Hot off the software, here's the proposed front cover for Rowan , which should be available as an ebook by the end of this month.  All the shells used are from either West Kirby beach or Red Rocks, Hoyake, which is where Rowan would have collected them.  Some of the poetry which Rowan writes features shells.  Anyway, let me know what you think of the cover. Other than creating this, today I had an appointment with my dentist - a lovely man whose kindness has helped me overcome my childhood horror of dentists, which was caused by the horror of a dentist I was made to attend as a child.   Why my sister Hazel and I were continually sent to this uncaring, even cruel person I do not know.  His syringes had a similar thickness to knitting needles, and the drill he used was a huge thing on a folding arm which made your entire head vibrate.  As soon as I reached my teens I rebelled and went elsewhere, and Hazel swiftly did likewise.  ...

I enjoyed this video interview with Amanda Hocking.  She seems a very likable lady, and down-to-earth despite her huge success with ebooks.   

Snowdrops in my garden. I've been wearing my techie hat today, giving this site a much-needed re-design.  Instead of having all my books for sale in one heap, on one page, I've split them up.  Now all the short stories are together, the two poetry ebooks are together, and Tamsin and Rowan  have dedicated pages.  It's easier for people to find what they're looking for, and I can add character sketches and other relevant bits 'n' bobs. I am also considering shipping the bibliography to HubPages.  There, it can rest in peace while satisfying the zealous administrator aspect of my make-up.  Here, it's a bit pointless maybe?  People might be confused between which material is currently available and which is not.  It always surprises me how long these 'little jobs' can take.  Let me know what you think, anyway.  And if you've any bright ideas for making the site better, please feel free to share them.    ...

I read an unintentionally funny article in The Guardian (the online edition, as I never buy newspapers or magazines) which claimed ebooks are a fleeting fad.  Real books are published on paper only, apparently, and people won't adapt to not owning collections of yellowing paperbacks.  Who would jettison the pleasure of holding a crumbling, slightly pongy but much-loved novel in favour of a mechanical gadget? There was the assumption that literary fiction requires the traditional paper format, and would only be accepted by its readers if this was adhered to. Genre fiction, on the other hand, was considered far less lofty (even though it outsells lit fic by the shed-load) and therefore it was thought permissible for this to slum-it on ereaders. Remember twelve-track cassette tapes?  Remember those 1" thick tapes on whopping great spools?  People used to say CDs would never replace these, as CDs were too expensive and people who had accumulated...