Annie Murray, author
The cover of my new book (out early May), Soldier Girl.
Newsletter
January 2010
Soldier Girl
Soldier Girl, the sequel to A Hopscotch Summer is on its way to you and due to appear in early May. In it, we find out where life next takes Molly Fox and Em Brown. Molly, after a very damaging childhood has grown into a troubled young woman with a drink problem – not the most obvious person to settle into army discipline, but the army is where she goes to take refuge from her family, so join her and see what happens!
I am now working on the third volume of story about the three girls, Emma Brown, Molly Fox and Katie O’Neill, and what happens in their lives in Birmingham from the end of the war. At present it is called All the Days of Our Lives. I hope you will enjoy following the girls’ joys and sorrows with me.
Tesco Competition Winner
When A Hopscotch Summer came out, Tesco ran a competition for people to send their names in for a prize draw – the winner is to have their name included as a character in the next book. And the winner is… SIMON COLLINGE. Congratulations Simon. We’ll see what dread or glorious fate awaits you at the end of a pen, in about May 2011!
Tales From the Heart
Do look out for our Saga Newsletter, Tales from the Heart, which Pan Macmillan are producing, featuring the books of myself and my fellow author Margaret Dickinson who writes sagas set in Lincolnshire. They come out about twice a year and may be available in your local library. If you are especially interested you can get on their mailing list by writing to:
Naomi Berwin, Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf Road, London N1 9NF.
There’s no charge (I don’t think).
Inside there are some short write-ups inside about my new book A Hopscotch Summer, and Margaret’s latest fascinating read, Suffragette Girl. There are some quizzes and prizes too!
Holding Hands Together
One of my short stories will be appearing in the April 3rd edition of My Weekly magazine. The magazine specializes in fiction so there are quite a few stories. Very nice to put your feet up with a cuppa and my story is a little piece of nostalgia!
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
The anthology of romantic stories (one of them by yours truly) to celebrate 50 years of the Romantic Novelists Association is in the shops now – a rich selection of quick romantic reads.