Coming soon from Harper Impulse

Today as part of this feature week for Harper Impulse I'm taking a look at some of the books they are publishing within the next month.

Secrets in the Shadow by Hannah Emery (published 20th March)

In 1920s Blackpool, eleven year old Rose wanders away from her parents and has a unique gift bestowed upon her. This gift will leave a haunting legacy, seeping down through the generations… 

Decades later, Louisa has a vision of her mother walking into the sea. This isn’t the first time it happens and it won’t be the last, but what she sees isn’t always what she wants. The rest of her life is spent trying to change the future that haunts her. 

In present day Blackpool, Grace is going to be married someday. She knows this because she’s seen it; a vision of a white dress, daisies embroidered on the sleeves, the groom by her side, vowing to love her forever. Except the man in her premonition doesn’t belong to her- he belongs to her twin sister, Elsie. 

Haunted by what they know and what they are afraid to find out, all three women must make a choice: in the face of certain destiny should you chase the outcome that’s “meant to be”, or throw away fate and choose your own future?

Guest Post: Where to Start Your Wedding Planning by Samantha Birch

Today is the start of another publisher feature week, this time for Harper Impulse during which I am planning to try and review all of their eBooks that I currently have on my Kindle as well as bring you a selection of additional features from some of their authors.  

First up author of The High-Street Bride’s Guide, Samantha Birch gets you from zero to venue in six steps flat.

My husband says I should be dead. That, if you think about evolution, a person who can’t shut the living room window without standing on a chair and who doesn’t have the strength to punch a heart through a sheet of triple-folded tissue paper should have gone out with the dodo. 

I tell him I am, in fact, the next evolutionary step: that everyone knows things get smaller as they get better—iPods, iPhones—and that it’s a selective advantage to make me cute enough that he’ll shut the living room window and punch hearts in triple-folded tissue paper for me. 

He opens his mouth to argue, but I push a brown cardboard box towards him. It’s two nights before our wedding and he’s still got 20 handcrafted glassine bags to fill with red and yellow heart-shaped confetti.

How were we not tearing our hair out? Well, yeah, there had been a million things to do, but in the past six months we’d ticked them off methodically. 

And all because we got off to a good start. Here’s how to do it…

Step One: Money Talks
Bleh, I know: flashbacks of being 15 and asking for an advance on your pocket money so you could buy that going-out top. But you can’t go planning a wedding in a manor house for 250 guests if your budget only stretches to a pub lunch for 20. Sit down with both sets of folks and get an idea of what they’re willing to contribute—that’ll help you suss out the shortfall.