Brid Enright – International Sales I am a member of the international sales department at Headline Publishing Group. Our role is to sell Headline’s books to territories all over the world. It is a varied and challenging role but it does have some pretty sweet benefits. The main one being that we get to travel to lots of different places. I now look after our Australian and New Zealand territories. This involves liaising with our sister companies in Australia and New Zealand so that we can publish our books to…

Julie Crisp – Editorial Director For those of you who don’t already know me I’m the Editorial Director of Tor UK, Pan Macmillan’s science fiction and fantasy imprint. I work across a variety of speculative fiction and my authors include Peter F. Hamilton, China Miéville, Amanda Hocking, Seth Patrick, Mark Charan Newton and Adam Nevill. I’m incredibly lucky in that I’m working across a spectrum of authors that I’d read naturally as a fan. I picked up my first horror novel; Stephen King’s IT, from my Dad’s bookshelves when I…

Becci Sharpe - Publicity Manager If you want to be a good book publicist there’s a simple rule to live by, thou shalt have no favourites amongst authors. And yet, no two books are the same. It’s the variety that makes it so exciting. As a publicity department of one here at HoZ, in March alone I’ve run three very different publicity campaigns. I’ve done events for non-fiction author and humanitarian Sir John Holmes, watching him debate with the likes of MP Hilary Benn and Dame Barabara Stocking – the then…

Lusana Taylor – Publishing Assistant I came to Choc Lit as an intern but have been working in the role of publisher’s assistant for nearly half a year. Before getting a job at Choc Lit, I worked in a bookshop for five years. I have a BA degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and a Master’s degree in Publishing Studies. A lot of people are under the impression that publishers sit around reading books all day…well, that’s not exactly the case at Choc Lit. We sit around reading books…

Welcome to Sunday Love-in! This is a new feature where an author shares one of their favourite smexy-time scenes from their latest book, tells us the reason for their choice and then shares the scene with us with a delicious excerpt. Enjoy. In the third Delicious novel, LUSH, the heroine, Mary Whaley is a woman who has a full life. She’s got several businesses and a plan for her future. She’s got friends and family around her who love her. She doesn’t need for anything. And into that life comes Damien Hurley,…

Grace Menary-Winefield – Editorial Assistant As an Editorial Assistant at Piatkus Books, I get to read a lot of gory, sexy, magical and sometimes scary genre fiction. It certainly keeps the excitement up in the offices! Of course, I’m around to help out the editors as well, keeping their lives in order just that little bit more and easing their administrative load so they can focus on bringing exciting new talent to the Piatkus imprint! Life can be busy! Oh yes, deadlines loom and proofs are rushed to production in…

Jenni Hill – Commissioning Editor I’ve wanted to get into publishing for a long time, probably because I was always the kid with my ‘nose in a book’! While studying English at university, I met Matt Smith, Editor of 2000 AD comics, who was speaking at a local library. I still don’t know how I worked up the nerve, but I asked for work experience with him and he said yes! Work experience is the most useful thing you can do if you want to get into publishing – even…

Sandy James is the author of The Alliance of the Amazons urban fantasy series from Carina Press. The series begins with The Reluctant Amazon, followed by The Impetuous Amazon. The Brazen Amazon, book 3, is released May 6, 2013. The series concludes with The Volatile Amazon coming this September. Sandy joins us today to talk about her Alliance of the Amazons series and what other projects she has planned in the future. Hi Sandy, welcome to Book Chick City. First of all, can you explain to our readers what your…

Today we are pleased to welcome Ashlyn Chase, author of the Strange Neighbours paranormal romance series. You can read our reviews of The Werewolf Upstairs and The Vampire Next Door. Ashlyn is here today to talk about the first book in her new paranormal romance series, Flirting Under a Full Moon. So, please welcome Ashlyn… Have you ever noticed the similarities between childbirth and authoring a book? I have. For those of you who are readers and not authors, please bear with me. We talk about conceiving an idea. All books begin…

I’m very pleased to welcome author Paul Cornell to the blog today. London Falling is Paul’s new urban fantasy novel published by Tor Books. Please give him a warm welcome. London Falling is my first urban fantasy novel. It’s about a group of modern London undercover police who, in the course of an investigation, accidentally gain the ability to see the magic and the monsters of the capital. They panic, of course, but they finally decide that the only way they’re going to survive is to use (real) police methods…

We are pleased to welcome author Kaylea Cross to the blog today. She is the author of many military romantic suspense books, two of which we enjoyed and reviewed here at BCC: No Turning Back and Relentless. So, please welcome Kaylea… I’ve always loved writing military romantic suspense, but I’d never before tried writing a book where both the hero and heroine are active military. Because I felt it’s important to showcase what our men and women in uniform are currently doing over in Afghanistan and other places around the…

Please welcome author Brooklyn Ann to the blog today. Her regency paranormal romance, Bite Me, Your Grace, will be released in Spring of 2013 by Sourcebooks Casablanca. Book two, One Bite Per Night, will be released November 5th 2013. So, please give a warm welcome to Brooklyn. Everybody feels down once in awhile. As an author, it really inhibits my writing, so I gotta cheer myself up really fast. Here are my top ten favorite methods to reclaim my bliss. 1) Bundling up in a warm blanket on the couch and reading…

REBECCA’S BLOGIVERSARY As of the end of last month (February), I have officially been working as a reviewer for Book Chick City for a whole year! It has flown by so quickly and I’d like to say a massive thank-you to Carolyn for taking me on. I’m really enjoying being a part of the site and I’m looking forward to this next year just as much! To celebrate my blogiversary I thought I’d share with you all my top five highlights of working for the site. 1. My Very First…

Book Chick City’s Where Stories Are Made feature is where an author takes us on a tour of their writing place, be it an office, coffee shop or park and tells us about their writing day and rituals, along with a few photos. We all like to be a bit nosey sometimes, don’t we? Writing a Novel in Five Easy Time-consuming, Gut-wrenching Steps With a massive late-season snowstorm brewing outside, where I usually prefer to draft in better weather, and all of three rooms inside the small condo where I…

Hi everyone! I want to give a big thank you to Book Chick City for having me over today! THE GEEK GIRL AND THE SCANDALOUS EARL is officially one day old, and I couldn’t be prouder! I hope that you guys love Jamie, Micah, and everyone else as much as I do. With that being said, I thought you guys might enjoy finding out a little bit more about the hero and heroine of GGSE. So here they are! First up is Jamie Marten. Jamie’s the kind of girl that…