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When you are nervous to switch on the news because the whole world seems to be descending into chaos, fiction becomes an escape route, you get to enter into different worlds from your own and lose yourself in someone else's story which naturally has a happy ending. We could all probably do with a bit… Continue reading My Favourite Feel-good Fiction
Wow how has it been a month since my novel was published?! It's all been a whirlwind and I've neglected to share some of the fab things that have happened on here. Appearing in my local newspapers ... A review in a national newspaper! The Daily Mail ... Magazine reviews ... … Continue reading One month on
This weekend I hit London with my lovely booktuber friend George Lester. We searched for my book The Second Love Of My Life in all the bookshops and I signed all the copies I could find! Waterstones Traflagar Square: It was so surreal and wonderful to see my book in Waterstones as a bookseller… Continue reading TSLOML book hunt
It was wonderful to launch the publication of my debut novel The Second Love Of My Life at the Waterstones store I work in. The evening was a chance to thank all my family and friends for their support during my journey to get published and toast the book on its way out into… Continue reading The Second Love Of My Life Launch Party
It's the 7th April which means The Second Love Of My Life is officially released! In the UK and Australia anyway. Sorry to the rest of the world - maybe one day for you guys too if publishers want it. But for the rest of us we're like: I first sent a manuscript to an… Continue reading The Second Love Of My Life release day!!!!
Guys - the novel is out tomorrow!!! I can't believe it. It has been such a long journey and now we're finally here. To celebrate I thought it was the perfect opportunity to share the playlist for the book with you all and then you can listen as you read along if you like. The… Continue reading The Second Love Of My Life playlist
I can't believe The Second Love Of My Life is officially released this week in the UK!! To celebrate I'm kicking off a competition and I'd love you guys to enter too. Share your photos on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #TSLOMLbookhunt!! The book is already being spotted although official pub date is… Continue reading Release week competition!
The Second Love Of My Life is released next week! I can't believe how close we are to publication. I am excited and terrified and it feels surreal and a little it crazy that people can finally buy a book with my name on! I have two exciting pieces of news to share. Firstly, I… Continue reading Journey to publication (part 7)
To celebrate just TWO weeks until my debut novel The Second Love Of My Life is published in the UK, I have made a video of me reading an exclusive extract! I hope you all enjoy! http://youtu.be/HEBWp_cZBVk Victoria xoxo
The journey of a book is an interesting one. It begins with just a writer and an idea. The start is a solitary one. You write your story alone never really knowing how it will end, whatever stage of your career you're at. But as time moves on, other people join the journey. Your critique… Continue reading It’s not mine, it’s yours
Victoria Walters 