A Special Summer Sizzler!
Cut price subscription rates with some fantastic offers!
Rosy Gee, Author of crime novels, short stories, poetry and children’s books
Hello and welcome!
I just popped by to let you know that I have a summer sale on the subscription packages to Deadlines and Dead Bodies.
The summer here in the UK has been absolutely sizzling and as a lover of hot balmy days, I enjoy lounging in the garden with a good book, when I’m not behind my desk writing.
I have had a busy few days, attending the Shropshire Writers’ Book Fair in Shrewsbury last Saturday, and this morning, I set up a stall in Little Twichen Community Centre (well, not really Little Twichen, but the village that it’s based on, which is where I live). It’s a stunning picture postcard place with a river running through it and pretty thatched cottages. Here is the description I used in the first chapter of The Mysterious Disappearance of Marsha Boden, using the village as a backdrop:
Laburnum Lane is in the heart of the village and as pretty as a picture in May. A magnificent specimen of the vibrant tree, after which it was named, laden with dripping golden chains, tops off the corner at Mill Street, where an equally stunning wisteria lights up the pretty junction. The lilac blooms regally adorn an ancient, picture-box house, aptly named Wisteria Cottage, its golden thatch settling over the black-and-white building like a thick, heavy, pie-crust.
The village is a riot of colour at this time of the year. Copper Beeches are loud and proud sopranos, in sharp contrast to the altos and tenors of the yellows, vibrant limes, and velvety, rich dark greens. The baritones of the orchestrated colours of nature that the residents nurture and lovingly tend blast out, loud and proud. Snipped, primped and pruned year in, year out, the competition is fierce with each villager jostling to become the proud owner of the prize of Best Gardener of the Year. It was an honourable title and the envy of most of the villagers, including Marsha Boden, a keen horticulturalist.
If you want to find out more, you can see what readers really think of my book!
Back to the subscription packages! I have dropped the price for an annual subscription from £70/$94 to £50/$67.
A monthly subscription is now just £5/$6, down from £7/$9.
As a paid subscriber you will get the following:
access to the full archive of Deadlines & Dead Bodies (300 articles/posts)
extra posts not available to free subscribers
an opportunity to share your writing with me for feedback
As a founding member (the subscription is £100/$135) you will get:
An exclusive 30 minute Zoom call to discuss your writing journey and ask me anything about being a published crime writer.
Ongoing support on your writing journey.
All the conversion rates into US dollars are approximate and current at the date of publication.
That’s it! As a fiction writer, I love my craft and know that only other writers ‘get it’. The buzz from crafting words into stories is so exciting and if I can help anybody who thinks they have a book inside them, or if you have started your writing journey and are stuck, look no further.
I have learnt so much on my publishing journey and am happy to share my knowledge with you in an exclusive Zoom call if you become a founding member. I will also support you as a writer in terms of encouragement, advice and anything else I can help with.
I am thinking about offering Zoom calls for writers who are lost, either on their journey to publication, or with their manuscript. Let me know if this is something you would be interested in.
Be quick if you want to subscribe as this offer is for a limited period only throughout the month of August.
Enjoy your summer if you are in the Western hemisphere and if not, keep safe and warm!
Best wishes,
