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Dedications

Dedications

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Does anyone read dedications in books, I wonder? I always do, because it took me some time to try to get mine right in just a few words. How can you sum up the importance of the person you are dedicating your book to in so few lines?             My first two published books are dedicated to my Mum, who I lost to a stroke very suddenly in 1997. I wish she could have seen them  published, as she always believed it would happen. In my way, the dedication keeps her memory alive forever.             So, when you skip by…

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An Authors Tale to writing ‘If Only You Knew’

An Authors Tale to writing ‘If Only You Knew’

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by Louise Mercer Ever since being a little girl, I have always wrote short stories. More to humour myself than anything else. Despite reading large quantities of Enid Blyton and as I got older, romantic fiction, I never found the ‘perfect book’ for me.                  Back then, I couldn’t quantify what my perfect book would be either, but at bed times, particularly during the colder months when my feet were snuggled around a hot water bottle and the rain blew hard against my window, I would imagine myself in another world, somewhere safe, warm, cosy, and of course….with the ‘perfect…

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