Coffee Cup Fiction
Jenny Kane
Many
thanks to Rachel for inviting me onto to her fabulous blog today.
As
a serious coffee drinker- with an equally serious coffee shop habit- it won’t
surprise you to learn that every novel I have ever written has taken shape in
various coffee shops up and down the UK. I can’t write at home, with the
distractions of ironing and dusting, so I pen all my words while sat at cafe
tables. It seemed totally natural to me therefore, that when it came to
creating my first contemporary fiction novel, to make a coffee shop the focal
point of the story.
That
decision to base a novel in a coffee shop happened over 6 years ago. When my Another Cup of Coffee came out, I had no
idea that I had started a series rather than written a one off novel. Today
however, as I sit at my cafe table, I am about to make headway into the
publishers edits for the fifth (and last) in the ‘Another Cup of...’ collection; Another
Glass of Champagne.
If
you’d like to know how the whole coffee shop saga started, here’s the Another Cup of Coffee blurb-
Thirteen years ago Amy Crane
ran away from everyone and everything she knew, ending up in an unfamiliar city
with no obvious past and no idea of her future. Now, though, that past has just
arrived on her doorstep, in the shape of an old music cassette that Amy hasn’t
seen since she was at university.
Digging out her long-neglected
Walkman, Amy listens to the lyrics that soundtracked her student days. As
long-buried memories are wrenched from the places in her mind where she’s kept
them safely locked away for over a decade, Amy is suddenly tired of hiding.
It’s time to confront
everything about her life. Time to find all the friends she left behind in
England, when her heart got broken and the life she was building for herself
was shattered. Time to make sense of all the feelings she’s been bottling up
for all this time. And most of all, it’s time to discover why Jack has sent her
tape back to her now, after all these years…
With her mantra, ‘New life, New
job, New home’, playing on a continuous loop in her head, Amy gears herself up
with yet another bucket-sized cup of coffee, as she goes forth to lay the ghost
of first love to rest...
The
coffee shop that features within Another
Cup of Coffee is Pickwicks, a cafe tucked away in Richmond, run by the ever
bubbly Peggy, and her husband Scott. It is there that, newly arrived in London
from Scotland, Amy Crane finds a refuge from her troubles, a temporary job, a
possible future, and a potential friend in Kit.
In
Another Glass of Champagne (published
in summer 2016), Amy, Jack, Kit and the Pickwicks crew are all five years
older. Time has dealt them each a life changing situation to overcome- all of
which should (if things go to plan), lead to the chance to celebrate...or
not...
Of
course, until I have consumed a great deal more coffee myself, and edited
another 80,000 words, the Pickwicks regulars won’t be getting anyway near a
glass of champagne!!
I’m
going to really miss writing these coffee cup stories. Amy, Kit, and Jack in
particular have become part of my life over the last four years. They have all
lived happily in my head for long enough to be a constant presence. I swear I
ask their opinion sometimes before I realise what I’m doing. Yes- writing can
make you a bit crackers...or maybe more than a bit...
If
you’d like to read Another Cup of Coffee,
you can buy it from all good bookshops, as well as from...
http://www.amazon.com/Another-Cup-Of-Coffee-contemporary-ebook/dp/B00EVYZC7M/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=15EFJ85882KQYAJ71KED
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Another-Cup-Of-Coffee-contemporary-ebook/dp/B00EVYZC7M/ref=pd_sim_kinc_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=12DHKX85NFP0DNJJCKDS
Another Cup of Coffee was followed
by three seasonal novellas called Another
Cup of Christmas, Christmas in the Cotswolds and Christmas at the Castle.
Another Glass of Champagne will be available in paperback and as a download
in the summer.
Thanks
again for letting me stop by today Rachel,
Happy
reading,
Jenny
xx
Bio-
Jenny Kane is the author the
contemporary romance Christmas at the
Castle (Accent Press, 2015), the bestselling novel Abi’s House (Accent Press, 2015), the modern/medieval time slip
novel Romancing Robin Hood (Accent
Press, 2014), the bestselling novel Another
Cup of Coffee (Accent Press, 2013), and its novella length sequels Another Cup of Christmas (Accent Press,
2013), and Christmas in the Cotswolds
(Accent, 2014).
Jenny’s fourth full length
romance novel, Another Glass of
Champagne, will be published in 2016.
Jenny is also the author of
quirky children’s picture books There’s a
Cow in the Flat (Hushpuppy, 2014) and Ben’s
Biscuit Tin (Coming soon from Hushpuppy)
Keep your eye on Jenny’s blog at www.jennykane.co.uk for more details.
Twitter- @JennyKaneAuthor
Jenny also writes erotica as
Kay Jaybee.
Huge thanks Rachel xxxx (Jenny)
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