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JUST in time for Halloween! DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TRUFFLE - Bk 6 in my Bewitched by Chocolate Mysteries is out now in audio (as well as ebook & paperback)!! :-)
Audible: https://audible.com/pd/B07Z89RM84/…
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Excellent my next book to listen to..

I am just beginning Doom and Bloom! I have already devoured your chocolate and tea room books! I love how the tea room is mentioned in the other two series. I cannot wait for more!!!!!

Yay. Just purchased from audible

I can’t wait to read this one! I have one more book in my to read pile from the series I was on when this came out and then I am going to be diving in

really? woohooooooo

Okay, I just dowloaded it!

Rachel Schofield

This is what happens when you're exhausted, sleep-deprived, working 7 days a week and racing to meet a deadline... got my latest 1st Draft back from a reading and laughed when I saw that Gemma was serving "signature scholars" in her tearoom!! :P That was me trying to write at 11pm at night when I could barely keep my eyes open...haha!
So I wanted to give a special mention to the 2 wonderful ladies who beta-read & proofread my books: Connie Leap of 'Connie's Corrections' (https://www.facebook.com/ConnieLeap.Editing/) and Heather Belleguelle of 'Behest Indie Novelist Services' (https://facebook.com/BehestIndieNovelistServices/) - who are part of my wonderful publishing team (which also includes my editor & other beta readers).

Connie has a fantastic eagle-eye and a great instinct for character & story, plus she helps to give me an "American reader perspective", whilst Heather provides brilliant insights on the plot & characters and nothing escapes her attention to detail. Being British, Heather also makes sure that my books don't contain any inadvertent Americanisms in the wrong places! Although I'm primarily British-educated, I lived in the US for a period as a child and was in "international schools" in the Middle East, so my own language is a bit mixed up! ;-) Plus living now in Australia, the English here is often a mix of British & American, so I tend to confuse terms sometimes... but Heather keeps me straight! ;-) I do use the occasional hybrid term as a compromise to readers on both sides of the Atlantic, eg. "real estate agent" (estate agent vs realtor)

So if anyone is looking for either a proofreader or beta reader, I heartily recommend both Connie and Heather - they are wonderful to work with, warm & understanding, with a great sense of humour and SO fantastic at meeting my crazily tight publishing schedules... I really don't know what I would do without them! <3 ... See MoreSee Less

1 day ago

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Winter is almost here and can't wait to read the next Tea Room mystery for a cozy-read! ❤️

I have never heard of a beta reader before. That is very interesting.

Can’t wait.

Thank you so much for sharing this info. I'm relieved that no scholars have been harmed in your latest book. 🤩

I volunteer beta read for 2 authors. It’s so much fun to be the first to read and give opinions about story flow, settings, storylines and characters.

Is that "signature scholars" with or without cream? 😅😅😅

As long as they were signature scholars all is good. 😁

Trying to figure out what signature scholars was supposed to be? :-)

So glad you get them checked. I use Kindle and I M constantly reporting Grammer, spelling, weird stuff like characters changing careers, being served twice at restaurants. Even one killed two people then only carried story for one!

I have been meaning to make a small complaint about your books. I have been reading them since they first came out and when you started the Chocolate witch series I fell in love with Viktor. The problem I have is, and I may not be the only one, is Viktor has not delivered any magical chocolates and the postman hasn't delivered any scones. So I will wait patiently. And get my sweet fix through your books. 😉 Thank You ever so much for sharing your wonderful mind.❤

So...in a case of "life imitating art", I'm following in the footsteps of Poppy, the heroine of my ENGLISH COTTAGE GARDEN Mysteries and planting seeds for the first time! :-) I'm trying to grow delphinium seedlings because I LOVE them but they're not really suited to the HOT Perth weather - last year, I bought 12 advanced plants from a specialist grower on the East Coast and I was gutted when all except one died over the summer! :-( And they're really expensive too. So this year, I thought I'd try growing them from seed instead. Maybe they'll adapt better to the hot, dry weather if they start as seedlings in this climate. At least that's a lot cheaper and not such a waste if they all die again. :P
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2 days ago

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Is there going to be an English Garden Mystery out soon, xx Good luck with your Delphiniums x

Could you plant them and pots and move them to a cool place during the hot days.

You’re getting lots of help!

I start my seeds in either egg cartons or newspaper rolled into "pots," so no plastic and the "pots" can go into the compost. So you have a sheltered spot to plant them? More watering on hot days?

Fingers crossed for you 🤞

Oh yes will be wishing that you have some beautiful flowers in time! xx

I have just discovered you, and I love your Tea Room series better than any cozy mystery I've ever read, the narration on Audible is nothing less than OUTSTANDING (bought Audible and Kindle of the whole series!), but I must beg you, HY, please, please go out and deadhead those poor plants :/

Good Luck with your delphiniums! I Love this plant! They smell so good. I grew mine from seed and they were Absolutely Beautiful. The next year they weren't that great and by the next year, I didn't have any left. I guess the winters here were to cold for them. I should have covered them with straw or something for the winter. I live in Pennsylvania USA. Good Luck

Good luck. I enjoy growing from seed.

Is your little assistant helping you, or just being curious?

Good luck!

Let us know how they grow!

Your Supervisor is ADORABLE!!! Is she telling you where each seed goes for an English Garden? I know when I used to knit my kitty Grace would sit next to me and more or less meowing like she was telling me how to do it. I miss her so much some times. Brightest Blessings to you and Muesli. Sorry if I spelled that wrong.

Don’t over water them😉🌿

Good luck with your seedlings! How can you go wrong with the help of Muesli.

I think our climate in southern Arizona, USA must be much like yours in Australia. Our “nuclear sun” this summer almost killed my two roses and new gardenia. This is the first time I have ever had trouble with roses, but in all my 78 years, I don’t remember a harsher summer.

Good luck!

Love this series!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going to try lemon thyme as ground cover. I live in central Florida where it feels like summer most of the time. I’m going to try seedlings and planting them in a patch to see which grows better. I wish you much luck with your seedlings. Will Gemma be back soon on audible?

Good Luck and hope it turns out better for you this year.

How fun!!! I tried growing zinnias from seeds Out of about 25 seeds I have one surviving plant .... barely lol!!

Awesome

Musli is work-king...

Love your English Cottage Garden series!! 🥰

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2 days ago

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I know the feeling

Uh yes....😂

Just proves you are human. Extremely talented and funny. Thank you for sharing

That is what happens when I try to draw anything!

This is why I have never and don’t do creative writing...oh also the story in my head is the same as the 2nd image. Cuz I don’t have a creative writing bone in my body 🤣

Heather White I thought of you when I saw this, I've been subbing in Ashwaubenon and often find myself trying to "teach" writing, no teach is NOT the correct word more like "tell me what you are thinking and write down" and then Yes, I understand deer hunting was fun, tell me more.😁

Funny, yes, and we know the feeling ... but you're a much better writer than that. ☺️

pretty much

I think that’s why I have never become a writer. I can’t seem to bring those mental pictures to life for others.

Woohoo! Production is complete on the audiobook version of DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TRUFFLE (Bewitched by Chocolate - Book 6) and it's been submitted for retail approval... so should be available on Audible soon (hopefully in time for Halloween!) :-) My narrator, Pearl, has done a CRACKING job as usual!!! Wait until you hear her "Minerva Chattox"... and Viktor, the toothless vampire uncle, is as hilarious as ever! He's my favourite character of all the characters I've created, I think (I know - I shouldn't have favourites! ;-) ) and Pearl's version is absolutely brilliant!!! ... See MoreSee Less

3 days ago

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I love Pearl, and since I read then listen to your books, am looking forward to hearing her kitten meows in this series!

Awesome. I’ll purchase from audible as soon as released! Can hardly wait! Feel sorry for Victor. Perhaps a vampire dentist? Awesome series.

When will the next book be out? I’m ready!

Cannot wait! I love the story, and Pearl’s narration is the ganache on the cupcake!

Can't wait to listen!!

❤️ Pearl!! I am SO excited!!!!

Yay!

😀😀😀

I just love Viktor! He makes me laugh so much every book and I always look forward to seeing what he's going to be up to next.

Adrena Johnson

I cannot WAIT

I love Victor. Totally agree he needs to see a vampire dentist 😉

I am so excited. Ready to hear it.

I just love hearing Pearl bring your characters to life. She does an incredible job!

So...it's been 5yrs since my current author photo was taken back in 2014...time for a new one! But - OMG - trying to pose nicely & get a cat to look at the camera is a nightmare! Here's the old one, which was cropped from a random pic, grabbed at a lucky moment. I've been trying multiple times to recreate it in the past few weeks... Well, 1,276 attempts later, Muesli is giving everyone the Evil Eye, I need to lie down in a dark room and my husband is threatening to divorce me if I ask him to do one more photoshoot ;-)
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1 week ago

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One of favorite phrases:....it is like herding cats..."

😂 the trick is you can’t let them see the camera or in my case phone and be a little further away and zoom in. Dogs are photo shy as well

You should just stick with this one for now. You don’t look any different in pictures you sent me recently. Still fresh-faced and lovely, looking in the flush of youth. Just keep this for now but ask hubby to always have his phone handy so he can grab a photo op when it present itself. 😉

That's a perfect photo. Maybe do a new one every ten years :-)

I did a Christmas photoshoot for a friend... She wanted Christmas cards with her two kitties. Well four hours later, a little blood and snagged favorite sweater (hers) we got one decent picture! Photographing cats is definitely a nightmare!

Try eating a salmon sandwich. She'll go bananas. My husband just walked into the room where the cats were, after eating a tinned salmon sandwich. They went crazy, sniffing the air. 🐈😻

She even looks wary in this pic, as if she's thinking 'you're not going to put me in the cat carrier & take me to the V.E.T.are you?

You look so pretty you just never age

Any one you choose will be awesome. Muesli will help put you in the right mood to make you smile!

Aw,lovely pic of you and Muesli.💜😸If i try to take a pic of my cat Misty she turns away😆

Haha perhaps Muesli in her wisdom will decided when and which photos to choose! She is a very wise little cat! xxxx🥰

She looks just like my Jibbles, had her for 18 years.

Just keep the old one. Lots of authors do. Love the old one!

Would you have a better chance not facing the camera but looking at each other? Or maybe looking in the same direction like left/right? Of course, I don‘t have a cat so no experience here. 😸😉

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!! When does the next tearoom book come out??????

You have posted some excellent shots of Muesli. What if you take a current one of you and photoshop it together with a current one of Muesli? Most of the ones I have of Lukey are candids I have just been incredibly lucky to get.

Here is a recent one of Lukey and his brother Smokey. Yes they are litter mates, even though they look nothing alike!

I have a friend in hospital & I've been trying , unsuccessfully, to get a photo of my great-great niece laughing to send to her! She'll be smiling & laughing unti I hold up the camera & the smile is gone & she's all serious! I must be so much harder with a cat! Good luck!

Lovely photo. My cats are useless in photos

Cats only pose and look cute when there isn't a camera in sight. 😸

Every year that I did Christmas cards with Terra on them it took like four hundred terrible photos to get one half decent one. The struggle is real.

Tell Muesli That you are going to replace her with Honey. 😀 Maybe then she will cooperate. I have noticed my best pictures of my dog are when he doesn’t know the camera is there. As soon as he hears the first click the photo session is over regardless as to whether I use my Nikon or iPhone. Since you both like being in your garden maybe she will be distracted enough for a really great photo.

My favorite author, H.Y. Hanna, has a new book in which I’m totally engaged...chocolate, magic, and a bit of murder! What fun!

When is the next Oxford Tea Room mystery out? Loved the latest Bewitched by Chocolate.

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2 weeks ago

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Adorable!

Cute

So cute

Such a cute garden.

Muesli has such lovely markings, beautifully handsome. This looks like a good ‘sit-stay’ by the postage stamp garden. Intentional or an opportune catch?

Lovely garden and such a beuuuuuutidul cat and a clever one at that! xxxx😘

Cute but Museli is cuter!

There is Miss Muesli, watching over your beautiful garden. I love the wheelbarrow too.

Beautiful cat

Muesli is so beautiful 💕 pretty garden too 😀

I agree with Judith Crump 100% !

Looks a great size! Everything is lovely.

Ahhhh I have keep reminding myself that's not Pixel in your photo!!😂 Greetings from New Zealand 😁😜

Did you plan your garden out before you started planting?

Cut from my garden this morning :-) Some of my David Austin English roses (& 1 Delbard rose) - they smell divine. Spring is here and my garden is looking SO beautiful at the moment with all the roses blooming!! (Excuse my dressing gown & bed hair! :P ) ... See MoreSee Less

2 weeks ago

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Just lovely 💐❤️

What a gorgeous bouquet -- just like Poppy would have made!

Gorgeous roses.David Austin roses have lovely scent.

How beautiful!

Beautiful!!!

I can almost smell those!

Beautiful ❤️

These are so beautiful. We are heading into autumn. You look beautiful and so happy. Don’t apologize for being comfortable!

Amazing!

Gorgeous bouquet of roses!

What beautiful flowers! One of best Anniversary presents I received from my husband was when he planted a dozen of my favorite rose bushes .

How gorgeous!

Gorgeous

Beautiful

Wow! They're lovely. We're into Autumn & my roses are still blooming. I just keep dead heading & they keep blooming.

Gorgeous. It is fall here and our flowers are all shades of autumn. Lots of pumpkins and mums out in gardens.....My roses have just about had it for the year! Here is an arrangement on my dining room table.

Beautiful I can smell them all they way to New Jersey! 🌸💐🌺🌹

How gorgeous!

They are so beautiful ❤💐🌹

Gorgeous

Beautiful 🏵🌹🌺🌻🌼

The roses are beautiful!

Does Muesli try yo eat the flowers. My girl Illy does. It is somewhat frustrating so no more cut flowers!, cacti were a fail too.v lol

They are lovely!!

They're gorgeous.