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When Book Pirates Make You Laugh...

2/25/2019

 
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There is NOTHING funny about book piracy... and by that I mean the sites that steal your book and offer it up for free download. The reality is that most of them are only phishers looking for the unsuspecting reader (and what sort of reader goes to pirate sites!) to upload credit card or other details. Since I signed up to Blasty.com, I have recorded over 3000 pirate sites with my books on them. I gave up trying to chop the head of this particular hydra after one site offered a REPORT COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT button which I duly clicked and ended up infecting my computer with malware. No, they are not nice at all.
BUT just occasionally you come across something that makes you laugh out loud... and just the other day I stumbled on a pirate site offering up GATHER THE BONES for free download (and no, I am not sharing the link... it went straight to BLASTY).
In uploading the book, the pirate had evidently copied from another pirate site that had uploaded the book description (the blurb) in a foreign language. Our enterprising pirate had then run the foreign language blurb through Google translate and the resultant hot mess is laugh out loud funny... so here for your enjoyment is the blurb for GATHER THE BONES... pirate style... 
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ORIGINAL BOOK DESCRIPTION

PIRATE BLURB

England 1923 and the Great War still casts a dark shadow over the lives of ordinary people.
Grieving widow, Helen Morrow and her husband’s cousin, the wounded and reclusive Paul, are haunted not only by the horrors of the trenches but ghosts from another time and another conflict. 
The desperate voice of a young woman reaches out to them from the pages of a coded diary and Paul and Helen are bound together in their search for answers, not only to the old mystery but also the circumstances surrounding the death of Helen’s husband at Passchandaele in 1917. 
As the two stories become entwined, Paul and Helen will not find peace or happiness until the mysteries are solved.
​England 1923 and the Great War still casts a aphotic adumbration over the lives of accustomed people.  Grieving widow, Helen Morrow and her husband’s cousin, the blood-soaked and antisocial Paul, are apparitional not alone by the horrors of the trenches but ghosts from addition time and addition conflict.  The atrocious articulation of a adolescent woman alcove out to them from the pages of a coded account and Paul and Helen are apprenticed calm in their chase for answers, not alone to the old abstruseness but additionally the affairs surrounding the afterlife of Helen’s bedmate at Passchandaele in 1917.  As the two belief become entwined, Paul and Helen will not acquisition accord or beatitude until the mysteries are solved.

Welcome back... and a Cover Reveal for THE POSTMISTRESS

2/19/2019

 
It's been a long time since I last sat down to write a post (a whole year in fact!) ... and for that you can blame two contracts and four books to write! It doesn't leave much time for any other kind of writing.

However it is all coming to the pointy end now and I am delighted to reveal the cover for the first of my Australian Historical Romances... THE POSTMISTRESS. 
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It might surprise you to know the most nerve wracking part of the publishing process is the cover! 
When you publish independently you have full creative control over what goes on the cover of your book (and even then it can be hit or miss!). However when your book is in the hands of a publisher, you have to trust that the design team (affectionately known as the 'cover fairies') are in tune with your vision. 
Having poured a year of my life into writing THE POSTMISTRESS, it was with one eye half closed and my breath held, that I opened the email with the cover concept and I have to say the cover fairies have totally got it right! God bless them. I LOVE this cover... it captures the feel of the Australian bush in summer - that crackling dryness in a McCubbinesque manner and the girl... well, the girl, is Adelaide!
I hope you love the cover... and I hope you love the book...
It is not officially released until 1 July BUT you can preorder it now! Just click the button below and it will take you to a page with all your favourite digital stores AND the ability to preorder the print book too! 
So get clicking and be among the first to have THE POSTMISTRESS drop on to your kindle or into your post box.
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THE POSTMISTRESS (Australian Historical Romance)

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To forge a new life she must first deal with her past…
1871. Adelaide Greaves and her young son have found sanctuary in the Australian town of Maiden’s Creek, where she works as a postmistress. The rough Victorian goldmining settlement is a hard place for a woman — especially as the other women in town don’t know what to make of her— but through force of will and sheer necessity, Adelaide carves out a role.
But her past is coming to find her, and the embittered and scarred Confederate soldier Caleb Hunt, in town in search of gold and not without a dark past of his own, might be the only one who can help. Can Adelaide trust him? Can she trust anyone?
When death and danger threaten — some from her past, some borne of the Australian bush —she must swallow her pride and turn to Caleb to join her in the fight, a fight she is determined to win…

    Alison Stuart

    Alison writes historical romances and short stories set in England and Australia and across different periods of history.
    ​She also writes historical mysteries as A.M. Stuart.

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