Archive for November 3rd, 2010

Sienna Starr is grateful for what being the daughter of burlesque star Tyger Starr brings her, but also wants to break out on her own. She loves being a chorus girl in a dancing show, but is determined to be a star in her own right, and shine as the lead dancer. Unfortunately, Sienna seems to have made an enemy of the show’s leading lady Brandy Alexander, and she’s determined to make Sienna’s life hell, not wanting her to take any shine off Brandy herself. However, when someone from Brandy’s past shows up and threatens to wreck everything she has worked hard for, how far will Brandy go to protect herself? Will Sienna be able to reach her dreams of being a leading lady herself, and sort of her own personal demons with boyfriend Max too? When does too much ambition become a bad thing?

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Last week I finally got to read Getting Away With It, the first Julie Cohen novel written for Headline Review. I thought it was stunning, and when I got the chance to interview Julie I jumped at it and got my questions off to her as quick as I could! Here are her answers, enjoy!

1. Tell us about your first Headline Review novel Getting Away With It?

It’s the story of Liza Haven, an LA stunt woman whose career goes quite violently wrong. She returns to the village of Stoneguard, Wiltshire, where she grew up (and where she couldn’t wait to escape from) to see her perfect identical twin sister, Lee—only to find that Lee has disappeared. The entire village assumes that Liza is Lee, and Liza plays along with it, to see what it’s like to be the good twin for once. But as she learns more about her sister’s life, she begins to see that nothing is quite as it appears. And she begins to face up to the reality of her own life, and who she really wants to be.

2. Are you currently working on a new novel? Can you tell us anything about it?

I just gave in the manuscript for my next novel this week! It’s about a woman who gets a job working as a costumed historical interpreter in a stately home where they’re re-enacting the summer of 1814. There are two story strands—the modern-day one, where the heroine’s life is a bit of a mess, and the pretending-it’s-1814 one, which is a Regency romp. But eventually the two strands start to come together. Like Getting Away With It, it’s romantic and fun but it’s also got sadness to it. I loved doing the research, which involved dressing up and going to Regency re-enactments.

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Hodder has bought two new novels by bestselling author Mike Gayle.

Sue Fletcher acquired world rights through Simon Trewin of United Agents, with the first title, The Stag and Hen Weekend, to be published in spring 2010. It follows the two parallel pre-wedding celebration weekends of Mark and Helen, a couple who have been together for a decade without actually having tied the knot.

Fletcher said: “Mike is brilliant at skewering contemporary relationship dilemmas with humour and tenderness and I think this is the perfect subject matter for him.”

Taken from the Bookseller.

This is absolutely fantastic news, I adore Mike’s books and I’m looking forward to this new one! However, the article is slightly wrong since it says The Stag and Hen Weekend will be out in Spring 2010 since that’s passed! I assume it’ll actually be Spring 2012 as Mike has Turning Forty, sequel to Turning Thirty, out in 2011!