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A few blasts on a trombone …

July 26, 2013 by Patricia Sands Leave a Comment

If it’s Friday, it must be France …

Author Emma Calin has brought along her trombone further down this page and if we could we would ask her to give a few blasts on it for this announcement!

There’s only one spot left on our first June 2014 tour to Provence! Come and enjoy moments like this! Desolée messieurs, it’s ladies only!

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Click here to sign up at the Womens Travel Network website. We’re waiting for you! Don’t worry if you want your BFF to come too, a second tour has been scheduled for June 25 to July 5, 2014. Ooo-la-la!

And speaking of France, who better to visit today than Emma Calin who lives her life between the UK and France. Welcome/Bienvenue, Emma!

Hi
I’m Emma Calin – lovely to be here on Patricia’s blog. As a fellow francophile I greatly admire Patricia’s books and the way she evokes the people and the scenery of my beloved second-country.
I like to blog about France and my frequent visits to a tiny town in the south west of France called St Savinien sur Charente.  It is fascinating and a great privilege to be able to observe life in Europe from two different viewpoints.  As a romance novel writer, I set Knockout! partly in France: in Paris (where else for lovers?), Troyes and Antibes.But for today’s post I am rooted firmly in my native Britain – at the bandstand in the park to “Blow my own trombone” for the launch of my new boxed-set the “Love in a Hopeless Place Collection”.
Part two of “Rock-a-my-sax” (can you spot me and my instrument?).


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(For
the part 3: jump forward to tomorrow
27th
July with 
Stephanie Keys.
For other tunes, e.g. The Muppets, Eidelweiss, go see the other posts
in my tour below.)
 
The “Love in a Hopeless Place Collection” is a set of five of my titles amalgamated into one. A bargain way for you to get your hands on my gritty
tales-with-a-twist. Initially available for e-books (Kindle, iPad,
Android, iPhone, Mac, PC etc on Amazon), the paperback will follow
and an audiobook is in production.
 

 

 
The five titles in the collection are all novelettes or short stories.
They stand alone in their own right but are linked by a common theme:
the universal quest for survival, love, passion and respect against
the gritty backdrop of working class life.

 
Today I would like to give you a few snippets from SUB_PRIME – a gritty short story included in the collection.
 
A character:

She was close and he could smell her—a trace of greasy hair and
woman sweat. It wasn’t unpleasant to enjoy her pale silent
strength, their shared dirtiness, the untidiness of their beating
hearts.

A location:

Even the snow wasn’t real snow. At first it sparkled like
tinsel, giving the grubby old town that X-Factor moment of fame
before the gods laughed you off. Now grey slush soaked into Mike’s
cheap trainers as he walked from the job centre.


An end of scene
sentence(s!):
Would he go home to his missus with a
bag full of knock-off? Would he go home and tell her that he’d been
locked up as a scumbag thief? They
’d
never catch him … 6’4”, nearly two years rolling tyres off a lorry
… it
’d
take more than the pale-looking kid in the security uniform.
 

Sub-Prime, along with all my titles, including the new 5-in-one
collection is reduced to 99c/76p/89€, for my Worldwide Summer Sale until the
3rd August – so fill your suitcases!



USA: http://astore.amazon.com/realifaccto09-20

UK: http://astore.amazon.co.uk/realifaccto02-21 

Canada: http://astore.amazon.ca/realifaccto0b-20

Germany: http://astore.amazon.de/realifaccto0e-21


 

 

I would like say “Un grand merci” to Patricia for having me here as part of my “Blowing My Own Trombone Book Launch Blog Tour”. I will be sounding off at the following locations until the end of July…
 
17th
July 
Anneli
Purchase
18th
July 
Love
a Happy Ending Lifestyle Magazine
and Real
Life According to Emma
20th
July 
Sheryl
Browne
21st
July 
Nicky
Wells
22nd
July 
Melanie
Robertson-King
25th
July 
Bonnie
Trachtenberg
26th
July 
Patricia
Sands
27th Stephanie
Keys
28th Linn
Halton
31st
July 
Venture
Galleries Authors Collection
 
 
 
About
Emma Calin:

 

 

Emma Calin was born in London in 1962. She currently lives part of the year in the UK and spends the rest in France.  She has been writing since
childhood and has won numerous local, national and international
prizes for poetry and short stories.

Emma enjoys writing love stories firmly rooted in social realism.
She blogs about the contrasts in life on both sides of the English
Channel, which she likes to explore on her tandem whenever weather
and fitness coincide. She is a Lifestyle Contributor on
Loveahappyending Lifestyle.
She defines herself as woman eternally pedaling between Peckham and
Pigalle, in search of passion and enduring romance.
 


Emma
Calin Links
For
more books by Emma Calin: 
 http://www.viewAuthor.at/EmmaCalin
Emma
Calin Blog: 
http://www.emmacalin.blogspot.com
Emma
Calin Website: 
http://www.emmacalin.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/emma.calin
Facebook
Page for book: 
https://www.facebook.com/EmmaCalinBoxedSet
Twitter:@Emma
Calin
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/emmacalin/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4915751.Emma_Calin
 

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  1. emmacalin says

    July 26, 2013 at 10:23 am

    Great to be here on your blog Patricia thanks for having me. I’m off to France next week and looking forward to soaking up the culture (and the wine!). Emma x

    Reply
  2. wordsfromanneli says

    July 26, 2013 at 10:40 am

    Best of luck with your great boxed set of page turners, Emma.

    Reply
  3. filbio says

    July 28, 2013 at 12:27 am

    Emma sounds like a terrific writer! All you Francophiles make me yearn to go there!

    Reply

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