Ashlyn Brady Author: March 2016

Saturday, 26 March 2016

Happy Easter!

Dear Readers,

Be safe and have a happy Easter!

Down at the beach,
Ashlyn

Friday, 18 March 2016

Easter is Coming

Easter is coming next week.

Do you have some plans for the holidays?

Are you going to take part in the Easter festivities?

Maybe take a break or do something you enjoy.

At least the change of seasons is bringing milder weather. It’s Autumn for those of us who live in the bottom half of the world and Spring for people in the top half. The sizzle of a hot summer in outback Australia is cooling, and I’m heading to the west coast for Easter (more on that later).

I thought I would have a little bit of fun during this week’s blog,

with the

Tongue Twister Challenge.

From your childhood, you might remember,

Betty Botter’s Butter,

Peter Piper’s Pickles,

Or she sells seashells….

The words don’t seem so difficult when you read them silently in your mind. With their similar phonetic sounds saying them out loud and fast is a different challenge. Try these…

Each Easter,

Edwina eats,

8 Easter Eggs.

Romeo ran rings around the roman ruins.

This one, is a bit trickier.

My sister’s shop sells shoes for sheep.

source: www.familyfuncanada.com

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And now for some,

Bad Egg Jokes

Dear friends, I apologize in advance for my lame egg jokes, but ehem…these will crack you up. (Ha-ha, I’m a terrible comedian, so I’ll keep this section short.)

A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg even though you’re slightly cracked.

Easter is the only time of the year when it’s safe to put all your eggs in one basket. (source: quotesgram.com)

The jokes weren’t egg-sactly egg-cellent, were they?

I hope you didn’t find them too eggravating.

I’m scrambled.

Moving on…

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Next week, I don’t plan to write much on the blogger site. I’m taking the train and leaving town. Me, my kids, and my mother are heading to a Perth beach side suburb for a holiday. We are going to take a break from country living and have some fun and adventures in the city.

I also have several romance story locations to revisit including Cottesloe Beach, the port city of Fremantle, Rottnest Island and the Swan River.

Whatever your plans are for the holiday break, I hope you enjoy them.

Stay on the sunny side up,

and

have a cracking good Easter.

Ashlyn

Friday, 11 March 2016

Book - "The Reluctant Lover" by Justine Lewis

This week it is my pleasure to blog about Justine Lewis’s third romance book, “The Reluctant Lover”. Justine has written romances about a secret prince, a love affair on a movie set, and now comes her story about one of TV’s most successful women, Katherine Bright, and her globe-trotting, tall, dark and totally kissable admirer.

“The Reluctant Lover” will be published by Penguin on 15 March 2016.

Here’s the Blurb

Katherine Bright is one of Australia's most acclaimed television journalists. She's interviewed presidents and brought down corrupt governments but her ratings are plummeting and rumour has it her show is about to be axed. Katherine has given up a lot for her career, so when the network offers her a chance to keep the show running, she'll take it – no matter what she has to do.

Foreign correspondent Liam Kennedy has recently returned to Australia and when Katherine meets him at an awards night, he seems a perfect distraction from her troubles. Liam is the whole cliché: tall, dark and totally kissable. Except for one thing. He's younger than Katherine. Much younger. And when Katherine realises she needs Liam to save her show she finds herself in an impossible situation.

Can one of TV's most successful women stay true to herself and her ambitions and defy convention to be with the man she loves?

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“The Reluctant Lover” is available for pre-order now at the Kindle price of $2.85 US and $3.99Aus.

Here's the links to book retailers,

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Justine kindly provided an excerpt of the story.

His arm was still around her shoulder as he led her to the back door of the ballroom. She didn’t feel threatened exactly, but supported by his touch. She let herself be led – and protected, in a way she hadn’t been in a long, long time.

‘Where are we going?’

‘Getting out of here.’

‘Do you have a car?’

‘Not exactly,’ he said, taking her out through the fire doors and into a corridor leading to a small flight of stairs which he started to ascend.

‘Then what?’ Katherine stopped just outside the doors and refused to walk up the stairs. Liam strode back down the steps and grabbed her hand. He tugged. His hand was large and warm and though her first thought was to shake it away and stand her ground, she didn’t. It felt . . . nice. She liked the way his hand wrapped around hers, she liked the warm feelings she suddenly had in her stomach. But it was a silly thought; she needed to get home. Katherine followed Liam up the stairs and into a small private foyer. She wasn’t sure where they were exactly but figured it was somewhere on the first floor of the hotel. He pressed a button to call a lift.

‘I don’t understand. Can you help me get a cab?’

‘Probably not. That’s why you’re coming with me.’

‘Where to?’

‘My room.’

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About “The Reluctant Lover” from Justine

The heroine in my new book, “The Reluctant Lover”, is about to turn forty. I started to write this book when I was thirty-nine and six months old. I’m not sure if it occurred to me at the time, but writing this novel in the lead up to the big Four-Zero probably saved me thousands in counselling fees. My heroine, Katherine, is conflicted about her big birthday – she’s a television journalist who has kept her birthdate a secret. But the ratings on her show are declining and while she believes that age shouldn’t matter, she also knows all too well how women in the public eye are judged by the way they look. And to make Katherine’s fortieth even more eventful, I gave her a new, younger colleague to challenge all of her assumptions. I hope you enjoy Katherine and Liam’s story.

About Justine Lewis

Justine Lewis is the author of fun, contemporary romantic fiction. She has spent her professional life writing legal advice – which some may say is similar to creative writing - but the lack of sexy heroes and happy endings led her to try writing romance. She has placed in the finals of Romance Writers of Australia writing contests, winning the Emerald Short Award in 2014. She loves Earl Grey tea, talking about which of Jane Austen's novels is her favourite, and searching for the perfect frock. She will read anything, but loves romance most of all.

Connect with Justine

Website: justinelewis.com

Blog: justinelewisromance.wordpress.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorjustinelewis

Twitter: @justineromance

If you’re interested in reading more romances from Justine, here are the covers for her two other books.

Are you enjoying the change of season?

Have a good week.

Ashlyn

Friday, 4 March 2016

Another week of Armchair Travel

Hello and welcome to another week of feeding the digital wanderlust about our big world.

During the next trip on Google + , I’ll be posting about a Roman shipwreck, the secrets of Machu Picchu, visiting Greece, the UK and finally back to Australia.

Before we leave the departure lounge, I thought I’d share a travel joke and a few quotes with you. Offer a little inspiration for the armchair journey.

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