I'm delighted to be handing over to Sue Moorcroft today to talk about her hugely popular book A Summer to Remember. This little beauty is on my list of books to read this summer and the ebook is currently available for 99p so why not add it to your TBR too!
COME AND SPEND SUMMER BY THE SEA!
WANTED! A caretaker for Roundhouse Row holiday
cottages.
WHERE? Nelson’s Bar is
the perfect little village. Nestled away on the Norfolk coast we can
offer you no signal, no Wi-Fi and – most importantly – no problems!
WHO? The ideal candidate will be looking for an
escape from their cheating scumbag ex-fiancé, a diversion from their entitled
cousin, and a break from their traitorous friends.
WHAT YOU’LL GET! Accommodation in a chocolate-box
cottage, plus a summer filled with blue skies and beachside walks. Oh, and a
reunion with the man of your dreams.
PLEASE NOTE: We take no responsibility for any of
the above scumbags, passengers and/or traitors walking back into your life…
GET IN TOUCH NOW TO MAKE THIS A SUMMER TO REMEMBER!
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Sue's written an interesting post about why it was so difficult for her to write it.
A Summer to Remember was my
fourteenth novel and somewhere in the process I went wrong. It became my most
difficult book to write.
Looking back, I think it happened in two stages. I
didn’t follow my own golden rule in knowing my heroine and hero’s major goals
and conflicts well enough and I let myself go down a blind alley. I think the
latter happened because even though I’d finally paused to analyse the conflicts
in the book, I forgot to keep them in mind. One story strand refused to work
with another.
I woke up one morning on a horrible moment of
realisation and thought, ‘Oh nooooooo …’ There was nothing for it but to
rewrite the work of several days. As a measure of what a trauma this was, I
seem to purged from my memory whereabouts in the story this happened! I only
know it was a nightmare and I went out one evening with a writing friend and
wailed miserably about not being able to get the book back on track and that
I’d never hit the deadline.
Deadlines are a bit of a thing for authors. Some like
to joke about them whooshing by but whenever an author misses a deadline, their
publishing team has to work around that. I’m not keen on that idea so I did
send the book in on time, thinking, ‘My editor’s going to earn her salary with
this one …’ I despatched the manuscript to my friend and beta reader Mark at
the same time and went off gloomily to catch up other jobs like putting food in
my fridge.
The first surprise was when Mark messaged me and said,
‘I can’t see too much wrong with this.’ I was so astonished that I messaged
back to say, ‘Are you sure? Have you read it all?’ He was, and he had.
A few days later the email came from my editor with
the heading A Summer to Remember - edit. Despite Mark’s positivity I
literally didn’t want to open the email. I could imagine eight pages of
structural changes or, even worse, just an invitation to a telephone
conversation so we could discuss how to salvage things. Instead, the email -
when I couldn’t put off opening it any longer - was upbeat. She loved the story
and the characters and edits were very light. Somehow my storytelling skills
had seen me through and my sigh of relief could probably be heard in Norfolk,
where the book’s set!
For the next book, I definitely knew the conflicts and
kept them to the forefront of my mind.
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| Photo courtesy of Sue Moorcroft |
Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times and international
bestselling author and has reached the coveted #1 spot on Amazon Kindle. She’s
won the Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary, and
has been nominated for several other awards, including the Romantic Novel of
the Year Awards.
Her short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’
and courses have appeared all over the world.
Part of an army family, Sue was born in Germany and
lived much of her childhood in Malta and Cyprus before setting in the UK.
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