At Words for the Wounded, which raises funds to help veterans in need we love this part of our Award – talking about our winners.
The standard has been so high this year and now is the time to hear more about our second place winner – Ellie Holmes. Let me just repeat that we’re so excited about the breadth of subject our aspiring writes are attempting, so much so that we have some new ideas for 2018 we are sorting out and will announce in the autumn.
The Flower Seller by Ellie Holmes
Jessie Martin believes that when it comes to love there are three types of people: the skimmers, the bottom dwellers and the ones who dive for pearls. Jessie is a pearl diver. She had thought her husband William was too. But events prove her wrong.
She dusts herself off, and gets into the dating scene, and hunkers down to create a successful career. What could possibly go wrong?
Judge’s comments:
She writes very well, her writing is fluent and pacy, her characters are well-drawn, and the author does emotions brilliantly. I enjoyed reading it but I had reservations: the 40-something single woman on the dating scene felt more like someone older, and I felt it lacked a bit of courage in the plotting, I felt she played it too safe: perhaps too little conflict, too little choice. Either way, the writing is good and the whole book extremely enjoyable.
courtesy of Paula Guyver
Ellie Holmes writes commercial women’s fiction with her heart in the town and her soul in the country. Ellie’s debut release was The Flower Seller. A member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Alliance of Independent Authors, Ellie’s latest book, The Tregelian Hoard, set in Cornwall, is the first novella in her Jonquil Jones Mystery Series and her next book White Lies is due for release on 27th June.
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