“Renschman is a psycho villain” – what a lovely thing for a reviewer to say!

inceptio_front-cover_300dpi_520x802_enhancedbecauseYesterday, INCEPTIO went to Texas. Yes, Roma Nova 1 was the guest of Jamie at ‘Books and Beverages – because this girl loves books‘ who wrote a lively and incisive review. She said of yours truly: “she’s a natural storyteller and this fast-paced, suspense novel is the perfect example of that talent.“

After I inserted my head into ice-water to reduce it to normal proportions, I read the rest of her review.  I was thrilled with this description of my heroine’s nemesis: “Plus Renschman is a psycho villain (like BRO CHILL OUT). I mean cray to the third power. But a good villain only makes the heroine that much better.”

Couldn’t have put it better myself. 😉

Read the rest of Jamie’s review here

 

Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO and AURELIA. The fifth in the series, INSURRECTIO, was published in April 2016.

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April 2nd, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: INCEPTIO, Review | Comments are closed

To blogtour or not to blogtour?

Inceptio Blog Tour LogoI live in France so it’s not easy to do a traditional bookshop tour. A virtual blog tour is a very attractive idea, especially as I hope to connect with potential readers worldwide. My publisher, SilverWood Books, has organised the stop-offs and the impressive logo, so a big thank you to them.

Preparing the posts themselves has been hard work – I want to give readers good information as well as entertain and intrigue them. But I’ve loved answering the huge variety of sometimes challenging questions from my blog hosts and writing posts for them. Good to give the brain an outing!  I could write forever about Roma Nova and what Karen/Carina gets up to…

But there are a lot of virtual tours around and the author is stuck in a dilemma: too much promotion and you can get accused of spamming, not enough promotion and nobody knows about the tour. So, a gently persistent approach, I think.

Following a few other blog tours to get an idea of what’s involved, I’ve been absorbed by the posts. I didn’t think I would be. But being naturally nosy, finding out about the author’s motivations, background, how and why they write plus snippets about the books’ inner stories has been very rewarding. I hope you enjoy mine as much. 😉

Come inside the world of INCEPTIO and see what’s on offer…

April 1 Review by Because this Girl Loves Books

April 2 Guest Post Of History and Kings 

April 3 Guest Post/ Sneak Peek on Alive on the Shelves

April 4 Interview by Because this Girl Loves Books

April 5 Author Spotlight by Brook Cottage Books

April 6 Interview by Layered Pages

April 7 Guest Post on Layered Pages

April 8 Review/ Giveaway on Pedacinho Literario

April 9 Interview/ Review by Crime Thriller Girl

April 10 Review by Jaffa Reads Too

March 27th, 2013 | Tags: , | Category: Books, Events, Promotion | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

INCEPTIO - Pembury Library talk

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Giving the audience the lowdown on INCEPTIO

When I was planning the launch of INCEPTIO at Waterstones in Tunbridge Wells,  I was very keen to go and talk at my local library on the same trip.

I lived in Pembury for over 24 years and spent many happy hours in the library when my son was small (storytime) and when looking for  books, CDs, DVDs,etc. As a Pembury councillor I was in on the act when public internet was introduced. Even though called a ‘village’ library, Pembury Library punches above its weight and also offers a dedicated children’s area, a book group, homework club, photocopying, fantastic info and archive services and of course, events.

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They seem to like it…

After a few minutes covering my publishing journey from manuscript to finished book, I talked about the ‘real timeline’ background to the events leading up to the point where in the back story of INCEPTIO the alternate version of history began.

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Current me pointing to eleven year old me fascinated by a mosaic

Warm chuckles greeted both the story of my eleven year old self asking what would a Roman society ruled by women be like, as well as the moment in the cinema which triggered the creation of INCEPTIO as a 96,000 word first draft.

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The queue for INCEPTIO

 

At the end, there was plenty of interest in acquiring an author-signed copy of INCEPTIO. I love chatting to people individually at this stage, prehaps finding out their motivation for buying a copy.

The welcome was warm and the audience of just under twenty gave me some very thought provoking questions! And I’ve been asked back when my next book is published… 😉

March 22nd, 2013 | Tags: , , | Category: Books, Events, Promotion | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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