This week’s showcase is a wonderful group of talented authors. Angela Britnell, Drema Drudge, and Wendy Scott. Please take a moment to check out their books, find out more about their writing and discover some books to add to your Christmas wish lists!
Angela Britnell
Angela Britnell grew up in Cornwall, England and returns frequently from her new home in Nashville, Tennessee to visit family and friends, drink tea and eat far too many Cornish pasties!
A lifelong love of reading turned into a passion for writing contemporary romance and her novels are usually set in the many places she’s visited or lived on her extensive travels. Thanks to over three decades of marriage to her wonderful American husband she’s a huge fan of transatlantic romance and always makes sure her characters get their own happy-ever-after.
She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. Her first novel ‘Truth and Consequence’ was published in 2006 and she’s now had 35 novels published internationally and multiple short stories in women’s magazines.
From Angela:
I only started to write because back in 1999 I had three very lively sons and taking a creative writing class promised me six quiet evenings away from breaking up arguments, listening to gripes about homework and feeding them! Another fun snippet is that I don’t suppose many romances get an Amazon UK bestseller flag in Manufacturing but my 2020 Christmas book did, Christmas at Moonshine Hollow, was set in a Tennessee moonshine distillery and I’m happy to claim it! I have to say that the research for that particular book was brutal 😊
CHRISTMAS AT PEAR TREE FARM
BLURB:
Pairing up at Pear Tree Farm in time for Christmas …
Pear Tree Farm in Cornwall, owned by the kind-hearted Nessa Vivian, is known for taking in lost souls, and ex-soldier Crispin Davies is certainly one of those. But the once sleepy caravan park is now a thriving business, and far from the peace and quiet Crispin was craving, he soon finds himself roped into helping out with a short-notice Christmas festival, organised by Nessa’s force-of-nature sister, Lowena.
But despite Crispin’s initial reluctance, his involvement in the festival serves to throw him together with Ashley Spencer, an American woman and fellow lost soul, who works at the nearby Tregereth House. Could Lowena’s ambitious scheme result in a more hopeful Christmas and New Year for them both – with a few surprises along the way?
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Drēma Drudge
From Drēma
Drēma wants a treehouse more than anything to both read and write in. When weather permits, she writes outdoors on the porch of her favorite coffeehouse which will have to do until her hubby gets her treehouse built. In fact, if she could live most of her time outdoors (but with all the creature comforts), she’d be one happy camper.
Author Bio:
Drēma Drudge suffers from Stendhal’s Syndrome, the condition in which one becomes overwhelmed in the presence of great art. She attended Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program where she learned to transform that intensity into fiction.
Drēma has been writing in one capacity or another since she was nine, starting with terrible poems and graduating to melodramatic stories in junior high that her classmates passed around literature class.
She and her husband, musician and writer Barry Drudge, live in Indiana where they record their biweekly podcast, Writing All the Things, when not traveling. Her first novel, Victorine, was literally written in six countries while she and her husband wandered the globe. The pair has two grown children.
In addition to writing fiction, Drēma has served as a writing coach, freelance writer, and educator.
Blurb:
Victorine Meurent is a forgotten, accomplished painter who posed nude for Edouard Manet’s most famous, controversial paintings such as Olympia and The Picnic in Paris, paintings heralded as the beginning of modern art. History has forgotten (until now) her paintings, despite the fact that she showed her work at the prestigious Paris Salon multiple times, even one year when her mentor, Manet’s, work was refused.
Her persistent desire in the novel is not to be a model anymore but to be a painter herself, despite being taken advantage of by those in the art world, something which causes her to turn, for a time, to every vice in the Paris underworld, leading her even into the catacombs.
In order to live authentically, she eventually finds the strength to flout the expectations of her parents, bourgeois society, and the dominant male artists (whom she knows personally) while never losing her capacity for affection, kindness, and loyalty. Possessing both the incisive mind of a critic and the intuitive and unconventional impulses of an artist, Victorine and her survival instincts are tested in 1870, when the Prussian army lays siege to Paris and rat becomes a culinary delicacy, and further tested when she inches towards art school while financial setbacks push her away from it. The same can be said when it comes to her and love, which becomes substituted, eventually, by art.
For more about her writing, art, and travels, please visit her website, www.dremadrudge.com, and sign up for her newsletter. She’s always happy to connect with readers in her Facebook group, The Painted Word Salon, or on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Book links: http://amzn.to/2QoEqXM
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/artfulfiction
Wendy Scott
From Wendy:
Back in March 2019, my sister visited from Canada, and we explored some of our childhood haunts.
We set a sister challenge to each write a short story while we were tripping around the lower South Island of New Zealand. This is when I crafted the first draft for ‘Sleighed’.
Author Bio:
Wendy Scott has a New Zealand Certificate in Science (Chemistry), which allows her to dabble with fuming potions and strange substances, satisfying her inner witch.
Wendy writes short stories, fantasy, and children’s novels. Her books have won multiple international book awards.
One of the creeds she lives by is to always – Live a life less ordinary!
Please visit www.wendyjscott.com to learn more, read Wendy’s blog, sign up for her newsletter, or to leave her a message. She loves hearing from readers.
Blurb:
Tinsel is the newest apprentice in Santa’s Workshop, but this young elf lands himself in strife on his first day!
He’s sent to care for the reindeer and instead ends up on a magical adventure.
Will the Toy-Inspector allow him back into the Workshop?
A fun Christmas story for younger readers and those young at heart.
Amazon Universal Link http://mybook.to/Sleighed
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChildrenAuthorWJScott
Twitter: @WendyJayneScott https://twitter.com/WendyJayneScott/
Pinterest: https://nz.pinterest.com/wendyscottbooks/
Children’s Websites: http://www.authorchildrens.com
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Thanks so much, Lizzie, for showcasing my Christmas story.
Thanks so much Lizzie for including me in the talented group of authors!
What a wonderful showcase! I am not familiar with Angela or Drema, but LOVE Wendy’s work!!
Thanks, Jan, so lovely of you to say so.
Hi Lizzie, lovely to see these three authors featured here.