Celina Grace (Author of Hushabye)

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Celina Grace

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Iâ€™ve been trying to get published as a writer sinceâ€�. umâ€� erâ€¦umâ€¦see, it was that long ago I canâ€™t remember. A long time. I make it fifteen years and countingâ€�.

Iâ€™ve also been writing for as long as I can really remember. I wrote my first story, The Blue Ruby, when I was about seven (if I can find that deathless prose scribbled in an exercise book somewhere, I might upload it here for a bit of light relief). Throughout college and university, I experimented with screenplays and scripts (I was studying Film and English at the time at the University of East Anglia), as well as other more short stories. In my twenties, I started my first novel, finished it, then my second, then my third. In my thirties, I was slightly side-tracked by the birth Iâ€™ve been trying to get published as a writer sinceâ€�. umâ€� erâ€¦umâ€¦see, it was that long ago I canâ€™t remember. A long time. I make it fifteen years and countingâ€�.

Iâ€™ve also been writing for as long as I can really remember. I wrote my first story, The Blue Ruby, when I was about seven (if I can find that deathless prose scribbled in an exercise book somewhere, I might upload it here for a bit of light relief). Throughout college and university, I experimented with screenplays and scripts (I was studying Film and English at the time at the University of East Anglia), as well as other more short stories. In my twenties, I started my first novel, finished it, then my second, then my third. In my thirties, I was slightly side-tracked by the birth of my son but, leaving aside that trifling distraction, managed to write my fourth..

I didnâ€™t bother trying to get the first novel published as I saw it as more of a practise run at this business of being an author. With the second, I entered the 2004 Lit Idol competition and got to third place. That was my ticket to publication, I thought, surely? Hah! Just the first in a long line of disappointments, of which every writer must be familiarâ€� hopes built up to then be smacked down again. I had an agent approach me after the competition and on their encouragement, I finished, edited and polished the manuscript, sent it off to them with happy hopes â€� to be told months later that they didnâ€™t think it was quite right for them..

Gutted, but enthusiasm relatively undimmed, I started on a new novel, inspired in part by the dramatic events of 2005 â€� the London bombings. I also wrote a short story at the same time on the same subject â€� it was on my mind a lot that summer (unsurprisingly. Freedom Fighter is the story â€� available on Amazon as part of The Mourning After short story collection). This novel The House on Fever Street (written under my maiden name Celina Alcock) was shortlisted for the 2006 Crime Writersâ€� Association Debut Dagger Award. Aha, I thought, a fairly prestigious and industry recognised award. This will get me published. Did it? Did it buggery!.

The House on Fever Street was also longlisted in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award of that year, which garnered me some nice reviews and a much needed ego boost but didnâ€™t advance my career as a published author much further..

So what next for our doughty heroine? She ups and writes her fourth novel, gains an agent and thinks now, now I have finally made it as a published author! And she waits. And waits. And waits some more. And then waits a bit more. And a bit more. Finally, for variety, she waits a bit more..

So, after two years of waiting, reading about self-publishing on Amazon and other platforms, I believe a phrase that ends in â€˜â€¦for a game of soldiersâ€� passed my lips and I decide to publish myself. So I did. And here I am on Amazon, making sales. No publisher. No agent. Just me..

And that makes me VERY happy.
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Undertow (A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 16) is here!

Undertow: A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 16 Undertow: A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 16 Undertow: A Kate Redman Mystery: Book 16Itâ€™s been months and months of hard writing (this one I found particularly tricky after a stressful year) but Undertow, the 16th in the Kate Redman Mysteries series is finally available for download (paperbacks will be published in August).

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	Hushabye (Kate Redman Mysteries, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 9,099 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at Merisham Lodge (Miss Hart and Miss Hunter Investigate, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 3,534 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requiem (Kate Redman Mysteries, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 3,190 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imago (Kate Redman Mysteries, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 2,776 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanctuary (Kate Redman Mysteries, #8) 4.09 avg rating — 1,975 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Lost Girls 3.73 avg rating — 1,864 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echo (Kate Redman Mysteries, #6) 4.21 avg rating — 1,641 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pulse (Kate Redman Mysteries, #10) 4.13 avg rating — 1,554 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“For three weeks it had rained every day. For those past three weeks, daybreak was a gloomy affair. The skies gradually moved from a thick blanket of dingy white clouds to the deepest shade of grey, peaking here and there in ominous black thunderheads”
― Celina Grace, Echo

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“hesitantly by the doors and came over to them, a welcoming smile on her face. â€œHello there, Iâ€™m Janet.”
― Celina Grace, Siren

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“unpleasant feeling of tension in the pit of her stomach. She noted the address details that Theo gave her and mentally raised her eyebrows. The Old Town was”
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