Hello, fellow readers and writers! As a special summer promotion you can download my novel 'Infinite Stranger' for free from today until the end of Thursday. This is to celebrate the brilliant reviews my book has been receiving so far on Goodreads and Amazon! Here's what people are saying about my book: .......................................................... "WOW is [...]
Have you ever wondered why the things we can't have are so much more intriguing than the things we can have? Or, more to the point, the people we can or can't have? Why is your average dark mysterious stranger so much more alluring than your average safe, available, decent Joe Blogs just round the [...]
For any writer, the early stage of promoting their hot-off-the-press novel is a heart-in-the mouth period of purgatory. And that's exactly how I'm feeling right now, as INFINITE STRANGER prepares to be released to the public on June 19th. Yep, I'm in purgatory. Will readers like it, won't they? Will you like it, won't you? [...]
A mother’s lost love. A daughter’s forbidden desire. A tale of obsession inspired by true events. The above three sentences are from the taglines of my latest novel, INFINITE STRANGER, to be launched later this month. And it's the last line, inspired by true events , that is the key issue. As with any work [...]
Following my last post, here's the second chapter of my novel, INFINITE STRANGER, which is due out this summer. ------------------------------------------------------------ 2 North Yorkshire, February 1978 I’ll never forget the first time I saw Greystones Abbey. If ever there was a single word to describe such an impression, I’d love to know it. To phrase it [...]
Here's a preview of the first chapter of my next novel, Infinite Stranger, which is being published this summer. On a snowy February morning in 1978, eighteen-year-old Leah Cavanagh meets Brother Matthew Haddon while on a retreat with her Catholic girls’ school. The four days she spends at Greystones Abbey in the wilds of North [...]
Here's the opening of my novel, Once Upon a Thousand Hills - a bizarre love story about a feisty sex shop worker seeking more meaning in her life, and an aloof director of a London refugee centre hiding from his tortured Rwandan past. Although the backdrop is dark, the punchy romance that unfolds - 20 [...]
Wendy Skorupski 