Patricia M Osborne

I mentioned on Monday that I am Author of the Week for Chindi which was perfect timing with the publication of The Coal Miner’s Son.

Today I am on Carol Thomas’s, a fellow Chindi Author, website talking about characters.

Who is your favourite character in House of Grace or The Coal Miner’s Son? Do let me know.

In the meantime, why not pop over to Carol’s website and check out the blog.

Click here.

Today I am on the blog of fellow Chindi Author, Lexi Lees, to celebrate me being ‘Chindi Author of the Week’ but also to celebrate the launch of ‘The Coal Miner’s Son.’

Because Lexi and I write in different genres she chose ‘Research’ as a subject for me to talk about in relation to my writing. If you’d like to read the blog then pop over to Lexi’s website here. I hope you enjoy it.

It was wonderful to be invited over on author, Lynette Creswell’s, blog to talk about my writing and new book, The Coal Miner’s Son. Her questions were fun to answer. If you’d like to see the interview then pop over to Lynette’s blog on this link here. I’d love to hear what you think.

As well as publication day for The Coal Miner’s Son, this week I am ‘Chindi Author of the Week.’ Pop over to the Chindi author Website and check out the questions and answers  about me and my writing.

Publication day has finally arrived for The Coal Miner’s Son, but you know what, I’m feeling a little flat. What was I expecting this morning? Fireworks or what? I’m not sure. All I know is that the run up to this day has been hectic with book signing, packing them up and posting, and lots of marketing.

However, the sun is shining and life looks good. Five years ago today at this time I was alone in a Bucharest hospital waiting for my husband to arrive and waiting for an operation on my broken hip. A lot has changed in those five years and that includes me, I am no longer the same person.

Although today feels flat I’m proud of what I’ve achieved in publishing two books that readers seem to love and wish that my late mum and sister were both here to share this  moment with me.

So away with the gloom and let’s embrace The Coal Miner’s Son starting with fizz this evening and an online launch party on Facebook. Hope as many of you as possible can be here.

Here’s a candle for Mum and Heather

and a glass of sparkly to toast The Coal Miner’s Son‘s arrival.

Cheers!!

Watch out throughout the day for links to blogs where I talk about my writing.

So exciting. Tomorrow is publication day for The Coal Miner’s Son. It’s finally arrived after all the months, years in fact, of waiting. Watch this space over the next week as I shall be placing lots of links to blogs with interviews and articles on my writing, in particular, The Coal Miner’s Son.

Thank you for being great followers and supporting me through all this.

Don’t forget if you’re on Facebook, I’m having an online launch tomorrow evening at 7pm – 9:15pm. Click the link HERE or if you have any problems send me your Facebook details and I’ll send you over an invite. Great fun will be had all round with lots of prize draw questions, some about the sixties which seems  appropriate as we’re stepping back to the sixties with The Coal Miner’s Son.

In case you need them, please find links below for both books  – NOTE: House of Grace is on special offer with a Kindle countdown at 99p/99c – to celebrate the third anniversary of publication as well as the launch of The Coal Miner’s Son.

See you tomorrow!!!

House of Grace

The Coal Miner’s Son 

Today’s Haiku Challenger is Poet, Patricia Claxton. Enjoy.

Well as you all know, I just love trees and can see exactly where Patricia is coming from with this lovely haiku. What do you think?

Hi Everyone

Well what an exciting week this has been. What with the overwhelming response for pre-orders on Amazon, signed paperbacks, Facebook shares and Retweets on Twitter, you’d think that was enough excitement for anyone. However, not in my case…

On Tuesday it was my husband’s 60th birthday so we celebrated with family at a lovely Indian Restaurant and that next Wednesday is our Silver Wedding and a week Sunday my birthday. Exciting celebrations.

Yesterday I discovered that I was a winner with Hedgehog Press Prickly Shorts Competition  which means that my fictional Victorian story about the Montefoires will be published later this year, and I also discovered that an internal challenge through Hedgehog also brought results for me with a winning poem, again to be published later this year.

And that it seems was still not enough excitement. I decided to reduce the price of House of Grace on Kindle to 99p/99c for a few days to celebrate both the launch of The Coal Miner’s Son and the third anniversary of House of Grace.

Next week is going to be equally busy and exciting with the launch of The Coal Miner’s Son on Monday 9th March 2020. I am having an online launch on Facebook so if you’re on Facebook why not come and join in the fun? There will be guest authors and lots of prizes.

Click here for the link. If you can’t get in on the link and you’d like to attend, contact me  here with your Facebook details and I’ll send you over an invite.

Do keep an eye out on the blog next week as I shall be doing lots of interviews and be featured on lots of blogs with articles about my writing and in particular, The Coal Miner’s Son. I shall add all the links on here so you don’t miss out.

What an exciting week it’s going to be.

The downside was hearing a couple of days ago that the London Book Fair had been cancelled, and of course I quite understand the reasoning behind it, and then I heard earlier today that the Writers’ Summit I was to attend has also been cancelled. This was to be my first time at the London Book Fair but obviously not meant to be. Hopefully I will get there in 2021.

Thank you all for your amazing support and being fantastic followers.

In the event that you’ve missed the links to my books, I’ll add them below.

House of Grace 

The Coal Miner’s Son 

With the run up to publication on Monday, and again throughout next week, I shall be blogging about some of the characters in The Coal Miner’s Son. My first character is new  to the ‘House of Grace’ series and she is in fact a beautiful red setter named Tassles.

What inspired me to include a red setter?

Well, as a child I was always very nervous about dogs. I’m sure this was due to dogs running loose along the streets without owners all the time, that’s what they did when I grew up in the fifties and sixties. My late sister and I used to be so frightened of the dogs running after us that we’d throw our sweets to them in the hope they’d go away. Of course, we didn’t realise at the time, this made them follow us all the more.  My fear wasn’t helped when my late sister was bitten on the top of her thigh when minding her own business, just enjoying a rope swing over the brook.  The fear of dogs stayed with me until my early twenties when I was married and had a family. So what changed?

I made a new friend who had a bouncy red setter named Tassie. At first I was scared of Tassie but in time, not only did I warm to her, but started to look forward to seeing her when I visited my friend.

My first husband loved dogs and desperately wanted to own one. His preference was a German Shepherd but I put my foot down and said if we’re going to have a dog then we’ll have a red setter. We both agreed that we should contact the red setter rescue society to see if we could get a dog that needed a home.

The procedure to adopt a rescue dog from the Red Setter Rescue Society wasn’t easy. It was like adopting a child. We had numerous visits to our house when we were asked questions as to where the dog would be allowed and the representative also wanted to meet the other family members. We were ecstatic when it was agreed that our home was perfect to give a dog a home. But then it was a waiting game.

After a few weeks we finally got a phone call to say they had a dog available, she was just under two-years-old and desperate for a new home because her owners were getting a divorce and neither of them wanted her. Would we like her? Of course we would. We set out on a hundred mile round trip and brought back this scatty red setter, named Ginny.

I don’t mind telling you I was nervous of Ginny when we first got her but after a couple of weeks we all adjusted and she soon became part of our family. Ginny was a bouncy red setter just like Tassles in The Coal Miner’s Son. No wonder George falls in love with Tassles.

I hope you enjoy the addition of Tassles in The Coal Miner’s Son.

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Don’t forget publication date is 9th March 2020 and the Pre-order button is now available on Amazon. Click here to order.