Hi,

It's blooming cold here in Ireland. Hard frosts, frozen water, icy roads. Set to continue for a few days. West Cork used to be known as a frost-free zone, only having had snow once in twenty years when we moved here, now we have hard frost every year. Is this climate change at work? My red maple still has a few leaves hanging on. It wasn't expecting this in December. Even in England, January and February are the coldest months...

AUTHORLY NEWS

Something to read over the Christmas break: The third in my 'Suffer the Little Children' series, The Loyalty of Children, has been published today, and is available for purchase. Dee has reached a decision: to save her family, the bad guy has to die, or she will die trying. This latest book drives to a climactic ending.

***** "Holy Moly!! Talk about suspense. I love this third instalment..." (Bookbub)

Many thanks to my amazing beta readers and editorial team, but if anyone does find any bloopers we have missed, please let me know so that I can put it right. Reviews would be much appreciated!

If you haven't read the first two, click the images below to get to the Amazon Page. Although they can be read as individual stories, I do suggest reading the books in the following order as the series gradually builds up a bigger picture.

This series is gradually creeping up in Amazon's charts, and last month Amazon put The Silence of Children into their Prime Reading selection, which is real kudos and free advertising for me. This has only come about because I have hit some kind of watershed as an author on Amazon's amazingly secret metrics. So, keep clicking on my books please! Here are the links again, for Reviewing:

The Silence of Children: Amazon Bookbub Goodreads

The Price of Children: Amazon Bookbub Goodreads

The Loyalty of Children: Amazon Bookbub Goodreads

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Please click on this link to raise my shares statistics.

I don't have time to check every book that comes via a book funnel, or a 'swap' promotion with another author, so if you get a novella (tip: on Amazon you can page down to the book details to check the page count), a sample, a badly written book, or anything else that you find irritating, let the author know, by way of a review; don't shoot the messenger!

Even if you choose not to take any of the books from the offers, do please click on some links - it would help my 'share' statistics! I have actually been refused entry to some promotions as my share rate isn't high enough. The book funnels seem to be dominated by some very aggressive authors, now, which says more about their characters than their writing. I admit to being a social mediaphobe and live in the hope that writing quality beats the ability to bludgeon readers...

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and

Happy Reading

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