The fun part about being an author is that you get to spend
your days in some wonderful locations, even if it’s virtually! But the only way
to be able to sit down and really share with the readers what the experience is
like, is to visit in person.
Lake Garda is a place I have visited several times over the
years, and it will always be one of my all-time favourite holiday destinations.
Whether you fly direct or are planning a grand European tour by road – it is a
dream destination.
The villa featured in Summer
on the Italian Lakes is fictitious but based on a composite of two
properties in which I have stayed. But the descriptions of being up in the
hills and the trips taken are real-life experiences.
Italy is an overload of stimuli – everywhere you look, every
breath you take in, and everything you touch, fills your heart with love for
the vibrancy and warmth of this beautiful country. It’s full of passionate
people – for love and life. Fiery temperaments, fabulous food and wonderful
wines; flavours that literally grab you with their freshness and taste.
Wonderful music and art; scenery that will make your jaw drop; beautiful
architecture around which to saunter and so many hidden gems to discover.
But up in the hills where it’s quieter, it’s the perfect
place to reconnect with the inner you. For me a holiday has to combine
everything – lots of exciting things to experience, but also some time to relax
and chill.
So, it was the perfect setting for this book and the only
sadness for me, was that I didn’t get to do a research trip! I didn’t need to
as all of those memories are locked inside my head, and my heart – but, oh,
Italy is calling me loud and clear! If you haven’t been, please do add it to
your list of must-sees and Lake Garda is the perfect place to begin.
Do you love a competition?
Hello lovely readers and bloggers!
To celebrate the price drop to 99p I will be running a competition on Twitter for one lucky person
to win some goodies - an Aria tote bag,
two beautiful hand-made Italian soaps and a limited edition mug!
No purchase is necessary to join in – just RT one of my
lovely blogger’s Tweets for the 99p promo including @LucyColemanAuth and #SummerOnTheItalianLakes,
to take part.
If you have already read/reviewed Summer on the Italian Lakes and take a photo of it on your reading
device and/or send a link to your review in your Tweet - IF YOUR NAME is the ONE
drawn by the third party, I will add two
signed paperbacks from my backlist to the prize!
Don’t forget to include @LucyColemanAuth
and #SummerOnTheItalianLakes so we
can include your Tweet in the competition. Thank you so much for dropping by
and good luck!
Terms: Competition closes noon GMT 29 April 2019;
international; anyone can enter; prize to be provided by the author; prize
winner will be announced on Twitter by @LucyColemanAuth and on Lucy and Linn’s
website (competition page) at noon on 30 April 2019 after being
selected at random by a third party.
Summer on the Italian Lakes
Bestselling Brianna Middleton has won the hearts of
millions of readers with her sweeping - and steamy - love stories. But the girl
behind the typewriter is struggling... Not only does she have writer's block,
but she's a world-famous romance author with zero romance in her own life.
So the opportunity to spend the summer teaching at a
writer's retreat in an idyllic villa on the shores of Lake Garda - owned by
superstar author Arran Jamieson - could this be just the thing to fire up
Brie's writing - and romantic - mojo?
Brie's sun-drenched Italian summer could be the
beginning of this writer's very own happy-ever-after...
Escape the January blues with this sun-drenched,
heart-warming story from the bestselling author of Snowflakes Over
Holly Cove.
Purchase
Links:
Price
drop: only 99p - grab your copy now!
Author Bio –
From interior designer to author, Linn B. Halton - who also
writes under the pen name of Lucy Coleman - says ‘it’s been a fantastic
journey!’
Linn is the bestselling author of more than a dozen novels
and is excited to be writing for both Aria Fiction (Head of Zeus) and Harper
Impulse (Harper Collins); she’s represented by Sara Keane of the Keane Kataria
Literary Agency.
When she’s not writing, or spending time with the family,
she’s either upcycling furniture or working in the garden.
Linn won the 2013 UK Festival of Romance: Innovation in
Romantic Fiction award; her novels have been short-listed in the UK's Festival
of Romance and the eFestival of Words Book Awards.
Living in Coed Duon in the Welsh Valleys with her ‘rock’,
Lawrence, and gorgeous Bengal cat Ziggy, she freely admits she’s an eternal
romantic.
Linn is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and
writes feel-good, uplifting novels about life, love and relationships.
Social Media Links –
Website: http://linnbhalton.co.uk/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucyColemanAuth
Happy Saturday, Rachel, and thanks so much for inviting me over! Have a wonderful weekend. xx
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