I have a new WW2 saga series called The Home Front Girls, written as Susanna Bavin geni.us/B0CSG3WLMVcover As the Battle of Britain is fought in the skies, Sally and Betty start work at the salvage depot only to find they already have reason to be enemies. #TheHomeFrontGirls

Congratulations and happy publication day to Kirsty Dougal aka Kirsty Dougal/ Kirsten Hesketh. Wartime on Sanctuary Lane is released today. A wonderful saga packed with action and emotion.

Springtime with the Railway Girls can be pre-ordered now. It's 1944 and the country is building up to D-Day. Persephone longs for peace but will it spell the end of her relationship with Matt? amazon.co.uk/Springtime-Rai… Book 9 in #TheRailwayGirls WW2 saga series. 99p on #Kindle .

What makes Dot Green such a popular character in the Railway Girls books? A staunch friend, a grafter, a looker-after with a big heart and loads of common sense, Dot is someone we'd all love to have living next-door to us. susannabavin.co.uk/blog.html?post… #TheRailwayGirls WW2 saga series

Do not adjust your sets, this is @barbicancentre clad in purple cloth. Purple Hibiscus by Ibrahim mahama deploys 2,000 metres of specially woven Ghanian cloth. Free to visit and on until.18 August 2024

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'Complete with a jaw-dropping twist near the end, this well-crafted novel has a strong lead character & a splendid sense of time & place.' A RESPECTABLE WOMAN amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07… 1920s saga of love, ambition & trying to hide from the past #amreading #amreading romance #Kindle

Plots can develop in unexpected ways. I gave a walk-on character a name in The Sewing Room Girl. Next thing I knew, she was the heroine's best friend and was demanding her own subplot. susannabavin.co.uk/blog.html?post… #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #booklovers #familysaga #amwriting

THE HOME FRONT GIRLS can be pre-ordered on Kindle geni.us/B0CSG3WLMVcover Summer 1940. The Battle of Britain is raging in the skies. Sally and Betty start work in a salvage depot but they've met before...when Sally caused Betty to lose her job #TheHomeFrontGirls £1.99 on #Kindle

Do you write in single or multi-viewpoint? For me, it has to be multi-viewpoint. It can be used to crank up the tension and there's the chance to explore several characters in depth. Just don't forget the Golden Rule! susannabavin.co.uk/blog.html?post… #writetip #amwriting #WritingCommunity

Proud to show off my #bookpost ! #TheHomeFrontGirls can be pre-ordered geni.us/B0CSG3WLMVcover Summer 1940. The Battle of Britain is raging in the skies. Sally & Betty get jobs in a salvage depot but they already have reason to be enemies #sagasaturday Thanks to all at @Bookouture

#99p #KU Remembering Ellie. Only 99p!
When Ellie Graham wakes from a coma, she believes she’s eighteen years old. In reality, she is twenty-eight, married, and has a baby son. She just doesn’t remember them.
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The question every author is asked: Where do get you ideas? susannabavin.co.uk/blog.html?post… Ideas aren't transferred onto the page unchanged. The idea blossoms and expands into something bigger and completely different inside the writer’s mind. And ideas can wait years to get used!

On my blog, I'm sharing how I planned #TheSurplusGirls 1920s quartet in detail (a 20+ page synopsis!), including how I created all the characters and their back-stories, starting with Belinda, the heroine of book 1. susannabavin.co.uk/blog.html?post… #writingtips #amwriting #writerslife

The first 3 Surplus Girls books are available in a single #Kindle volume. amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09… 1920s saga series about young women fighting against the odds as they strive for independence after the Great War. #amreading #historicalfiction #historicalromance #TheSurplusGirls

Two characters in search of a book. How the Hesketh sisters arrived in the 1920s... via the 1800s, 1930s, 1910s & 1940s susannabavin.co.uk/blog.html?post… Developing #TheSurplusGirls series about women striving for independence in post-Great War times. #amwriting #writingtips #authors

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One label that made the rounds at the Mabuhay Gardens (and the Music Press) in San Francisco to describe posers was 'Plastic Punks.'

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