Good News! Article in Teignmouth Post A Success! Plus Liebster Blog Award!

I was just going to the shops yesterday when I had a phone call from Rhona at the  Quayside Bookshop in Teignmouth, wanting some more copies of Gipsy Moth. I'm really pleased that the article in the Teignmouth Post generated some sales! Wonderful! So I was able to parcel up some more copies and send them straight away. Jonathan Cainer in the Daily Mail said that I should look out for co-incidences and I suppose that it was a co-incidence that I was just going out and able to post the books at the same time.
Then today, the lovely Debs Carr awarded me the Liebster Blog Award. It's the second time that I've received it and I'm glad that you no longer have to find five others to award it to, but you do have to list five random facts about yourself, so here goes:

1. My mother had a teacher who was related to Captain Scott who perished at the South Pole one hundred years ago.
2. She left me outside the post office in my pram when I was six months old, queued up to post some parcels, came out out, and forgot I was hers!
3. David Seaman smiled at me in the local supermarket the other week.
4. I went to the loo at Ascot once and come out with my skirt tucked into my knickers! Thank goodness a friend spotted me before I got too far!
5. I was made to stay in at break when I started school because some boys had taken my skipping rope. Perhaps I lashed out irrationally! 

I'm going to pass the award to Debbie White, the Bluestocking Mum, for her inspirational blog.

What are your random moments?

Good Luck with New Beginnings, Rebecca Emin, it's the Chinese New Year!

Today, in the Daily Mail, Jonathan Cainer, the astrologer, says that it's an auspicious time to start something new because the Chinese New Year corresponds with a new moon!

So I wish the very best of luck to Rebecca Emin for her Web Splash to launch the official publication date of New Beginnings.

About New Beginnings

Sam Hendry is not looking forward to starting at her new school. Things go from bad to worse as the day of truth arrives and all of her fears come true... and then some.

When Sam meets a different group of people who immediately accept her as a friend, she begins to feel more positive.

With her new friends and interests, will Sam finally feel able to face the bully who taunts her, and to summon up the courage to perform on stage?

Rebecca has been very kind to me in helping to get my book into a real book shop - The Wallingford Book Shop, in Wallingford (!) so, it's only fair that I reciprocate.  Join  us over on Rebecca’s blog Ramblings of a Rusty Writer to find all of the details of how she is planning to celebrate today, or you can read some reviews of the book itself on Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com

You may like to visit some of the other blogs helping Rebecca to celebrate today too.