I'm welcoming the very lovely Jenny Kane to my blog today to tell us more about her latest book, Another Glass of Champagne.
Many thanks for inviting me along today to talk about
my latest novel, Another Glass of Champagne.
It is with a sense of excitement, tinged with sadness,
that I celebrate the launch of this book. Obviously I’m excited because the
publication of any novel is a very special moment. To see the words you’ve
woven together, that you’ve sweated over, sworn at, caressed, and loved, take
their final form is a thrill that never fades. In a world where it is
increasingly difficult to find a publisher that will risk its expenditure on
printing your book, rather than leaving it as eBook only, the sense of joy is
even greater.
And the touch of sadness? Well, that is because this
will be the very the final instalment in the Pickwicks Coffee House adventures,
and I’m going to miss Amy, Kit, Jack, Megan, Peggy and the crew. They have
lived with me, in my head for five years now, and – at the risk of sounding a
little unhinged- they have become my friends. (Obviously I don’t actually talk
to them- really...OK, I do, but only a little bit.)
It is to Amy, and the Pickwicks crew, that I now raise
a glass of bubbly. It was the interaction of those main characters that
appealed to my editor enough to have my first contemporary fiction novel taken
up. If that hadn’t happened, I would never have continued writing as Jenny Kane.
Another
Glass of Champagne follows on from my (bestselling!), novel,
Another Cup of Coffee, and the
seasonal Christmas novella’s Another Cup
of Christmas, Christmas in the Cotswolds, and Christmas at the Castle. (You don’t need to have any of these
earlier tales to enjoy Another Glass of
Champagne)
Blurb
A warm-hearted,
contemporary tale about a group of friends living in a small corner of busy
London, by bestselling author Jenny Kane.
Fortysomething Amy is
shocked and delighted to discover she s expecting a baby not to mention
terrified! Amy wants best friend Jack to be godfather, but he hasn’t been heard
from in months. When Jack finally reappears, he s full of good intentions but
his new business plan could spell disaster for the beloved Pickwicks Coffee
Shop, and ruin a number of old friendships...
Meanwhile his love life
is as complicated as ever and yet when he swears off men for good, Jack meets
someone who makes him rethink his priorities...but is it too late for a fresh
start?
Author Kit has problems of her own: just when
her career has started to take off, she finds herself unable to write and there
is a deadline looming, plus two headstrong kids to see through their difficult
teenage years...will she be able to cope?
A follow-up to the
runaway success Another Cup of Coffee.
My affection for Amy, Kit and Jack comes, not just
from the fact I have lived with their unique voices in my head for so long, but
because each of them is based on a real person. When I wrote Another Cup of Coffee, it was with a
sense of trepidation. If those whose essence I’d used to create the three lead
characters in the book hadn’t liked the story, I would never have sent it to a
publisher to be considered for publication in the first place.
Luckily for me, they were- and still are- incredibly
supportive of me and my words. I am blessed to have friends who are willing to
have their lives expanded into fiction on the page. In fact, it has been
immense fun chatting with the ‘real’ Jack and seeing which direction he’d like
his ‘on page’ persona to travel.
If you’d like to discover how the real ‘Jack’ would
like to live in the realms of fiction, then you can find Another Glass of Champagne in all good bookshops and via online
retailers (in paperback and e-format).
Buy
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Mini
Extract
Sticking
her head out of the bedroom window, Amy took a huge lungful of fresh air. Even
though her morning sickness had passed with merciful speed, the aroma of the
paint she and Paul were decorating their spare room with was making her
decidedly queasy.
‘I
thought this was supposed to be odourless paint?’
‘It
is.’ Paul smiled at his wife as he put down the yellow paint-covered roller. ‘Why
don’t you take a break? There’s not much left to do now.’
Amy
leaned against the windowsill. ‘I’m fine – and anyway, it’s my own fault. I
should never have got on my hands and knees to paint the skirting board. Thank
you for not saying “I told you so,” by the way.’
Sinking
onto the chair Paul had placed in the middle of the decorating chaos, Amy
rubbed a palm over her bump in wonder. It seemed to be getting bigger by the
hour, never mind by the day.
‘Have
Phil and Rob managed to make any contact with Jack yet?’
‘Not
a word.’ Paul scraped the remains of the paint from the roller tray onto his
brush and dabbed at a patchy place on the wall. ‘Rob hasn’t had any replies to
his texts and emails. He reckons Jack is probably somewhere really remote with
no Wi-Fi.’
‘Hmmm.
Well, I hope he resurfaces soon, or I’ll have had this baby before he even
knows I’m expecting one.’
Paul
stretched his arms above his head to loosen the muscles cramped from painting.
‘He’ll turn up sooner or later. Jack always does...’
***
Thanks again for letting me visit your blog today.
Happy reading,
Jenny xx
Bio
Jenny spends a large part
of her time in the cafe’s of Mid Devon, where she creates her stories,
including the novels Another Glass of
Champagne, (Accent Press, 2016), Abi’s
House (Accent Press, June 2015),
Romancing Robin Hood (Accent Press, 2014), the best selling contemporary
romance Another Cup of Coffee (Accent
Press, 2013), and the novella length sequels Another Cup of Christmas (Accent Press, 2013), Christmas in the Cotswolds, (Accent Press, 2014), and Christmas at the Castle, (Accent Press,
2015).
Her next full length
novel, Abi’s Neighbour, will be
published by Accent Press in Summer 2017. She is also working on a short
historical novel, which will be published in November 2016.
Jenny Kane is also the
author of quirky children’s picture books There’s
a Cow in the Flat (Hushpuppy, 2014) and Ben’s
Biscuit Tin (Hushpuppy, 2015).
Keep your eye on Jenny’s
blog at www.jennykane.co.uk for more
details.
Twitter- @JennyKaneAuthor
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Many thanks hun. Jenny xx
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