Even better, the publisher, Corazon, who ran the competition, decided to publish an anthology of the top 10 stories and I saw my name in print for the first time.
Then I went to the Romantic Novelists' Association conference where I had the opportunity to pitch my work to Accent Press (you can read more about this here), and I was thrilled when they offered to publish my novel, Her Forget-Me-Not Ex, a heartwarming contemporary romance set in Provence.
Now I've been through the process of revising and editing my novel for the first time, and I'm so excited to be able to reveal my new cover:
Natasha has consigned her wealthy
French ex-husband Luc to the past, so she’s horrified when he turns up at her
village florist’s shop out of the blue, pleading for help. He never dared to
tell his family about the divorce, and when he asks her to come to France and
pretend they’re still married for a couple of weeks to please his dying father,
she’s not sure she can say no. She certainly isn’t prepared for the warmth of
his family’s welcome, or the attraction that’s still simmering between her and
Luc.
But it’s just two weeks in a
vineyard, no strings attached, right?
You may notice I have a new pseudonym. Attached as I am to the name I was born with, I have spent most of my life spelling it out to people, and when my publisher suggested that I think about taking on a new identity, I was more than happy.
So what do you think? Isn't it a lovely cover?
Her Forget-Me-Not Ex will be published 22nd May 2015, but it's already available for pre-order from Amazon UK and Amazon USA.
Meanwhile, Sophie Claire has a brand new Facebook page and Twitter account and she'd love to meet you there!
