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June 2022
I’m so delighted to announce The Man I Never Met, written under my pen name, Elle Cook will be published by Ballantine Bantam Dell in the US, alongside Century/Penguin in the UK. Both US and UK editions will publish this autumn.
June 2021
Amazon Top Ten!
The Forbidden Promise hit number 9 in the US Amazon Kindle Charts and The Girl From the Island reached number 10.
In the UK The Girl From the Island reached the Kindle Top 50 and No 14 in the Heatseeker Chart.
March 2020
The Forgotten Village won the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel of the Year 2020!
Huge thanks to the anonymous readers and judges of the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2020 run by the RNA (Romantic Novelists’ Association). They voted The Forgotten Village the winner! I was blown away on the night and I still am. I’m so pleased my debut impressed enough people to get into the shortlist, let alone be crowned the winner. It was against an intensely strong line up of other gorgeous debut novels. I’m still in shock.
February 2020
It’s Awards Season!
The Forgotten Village won the RNA Joan Hessayon Award!
I am not the best at updating this section of my website, I’ll confess! But it’s always nice to be able to shout about awards. Back in September, (I know, I know), I won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers. The competition was tough as the nominees are all those who have graduated from the RNA’s fantastic New Writer’s Scheme with their debut novel. I cried. (Very Gwyneth Paltrow of me.) And my speech was terrible because of all the crying. But I got to bring home a shiny silver trophy with my name engraved. I’m its custodian until September 2020 when I get to hand it on to the next lucky winner, when hopefully my handover speech will be less teary than my winner’s speech.
RNA Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award
I’m on the shortlist for this absolutely wonderful award for The Forgotten Village. The competition is equally as fierce as the Joan Hessayon Award but I’ve bought a posh frock and will be all dressed up with somewhere to go on awards night in March.
January 2020
What a crazy few months it’s been. The Forgotten Village has now sold in excess of 150,000 copies! And sat in the Kindle Top 100 for four months. Amazing times.
My second novel The Forbidden Promise has a release date of March 19 for paperback, ebook and audiobook. It’s set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands.
Meanwhile, I’m half way through writing Book 3 and am off to to visit a few wonderful locations for research in a couple of weeks. It will be cold, wet and dreary at this time of year. I actually am incredibly excited!
July 2019
Overjoyed with the wonderful news that after about two weeks at the Kindle No 1 position earlier in the summer, The Forgotten Village has now sold over 120,000 copies across all formats. Wonderful, amazing times!
May 2019
Book 2 has a title and a release date. The Forbidden Promise will be released in February 2020. It’s already available to pre order on amazon and more information such as blurb and kindle release date will follow.
May 2019
I am so overjoyed, I can barely type! The Forgotten Village reached #12 in the overall Amazon Top 100 chart, with seven Number 1 orange bestseller flags in these categories:
Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense, History, European History, UK History & Military Romance!
April 2019
Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy of The Forgotten Village, helping it into the Kindle Top 40 and earning it three bestseller flags!
April 2019
My first novel, The Forgotten Village, set in Dorset during WW2 and present day, is out now in the UK with editions following in Germany, The Netherlands (and USA and Canada where it will be renamed The Forgotten Wife). Take a look at my 'Books' page on the tab above for more info.
I’m working on my second novel, which has a provisional release date of February 2020.