Today, I have the fantastic Helen J. Rolfe on Dreaming With Open Eyes talking to me about her latest release Handle Me with Care. Helen, I'd just like to say a huge thank you for agreeing to appear on Dreaming With Open Eyes, it is an absolute pleasure to have you here.
Hi Helen, a warm welcome Dreaming with Open Eyes! Thank you for participating in this interview, would you like to start by introducing yourself…?
Hi, it’s lovely to be here, and thank you for inviting me on as a guest :-) Like many people I had a whole different career before I started writing. I studied business at University and went on to become an I.T. specialist. I soon realised that it wasn’t the job for me and studied journalism and writing which lead me to freelance journalism, a position as an media assistant and finally to writing fiction. I wrote my first book in 2011 but it’s very much a ‘bottom drawer’ book as they say … my practice before the real thing if you like!
I returned to the UK at the end of last year after 14 years in Australia. My debut novel, The Friendship Tree, is set in New South Wales and Sydney, and Handle Me with Care is set in Melbourne. They are two beautiful, amazing cities and inspirational for fiction writing.
Name: Life or Something Like It
Author: Annie Lyons
Format: ebook
Pages: unkown
Release date: 13th July
Publisher: Carina UK
Teaser
Step into someone else’s shoes for a day…
And it will change you for a lifetime.
Cat
is very good at her job. She runs a PR company with her best friend
(and secret crush) Jesse, and is never happier than when her
high-profile celebrities are glittering in the spotlight.
But
when her footballer client gets in the press for all the wrong reasons,
Cat’s career takes a sudden nosedive. So when her brother Andrew
unexpectedly needs her to look after his kids for a few weeks, she can
hardly say no. She’s happily single, hasn’t exactly been the ‘World’s
Best Auntie’ over the years, and what she knows about looking after
children would fit on the back of a postage stamp. But it’s only
temporary until she gets her real life back on track – isn’t it?
Name: The Right Design
Author: Isabella Louise Anderson
Format: paperback
Pages: 183
Release date: March 8th 2014
Publisher: Chick Lit Goddess
Teaser
Interior designer Carrie
Newman could not have envisioned a more perfect life for herself. She
had a great job doing what she loved, wonderful friends, and a close
relationship with her sister and brother-in-law. Add in an amazing man
who she’d hoped would soon become her husband, and her life was perfect.
Until one devastating decision ruins her relationship and changes the
course of her life.
Determined to make a new start, Carrie leaves
Texas and heads to Palm Beach to pick up the pieces of her shattered
and broken life. The last thing she expects is to find herself attracted
to her first client at her new job—Brad Larson, who has proven himself
time and time again to be cad.
But there’s something beneath the
surface of Brad’s arrogant exterior that keeps her craving more of
him—something almost sweet that Carrie can’t seem to resist.
Is Carrie ready to take another chance on romance? And will this new design of her life prove to be the right one…?