Morgan Kelly's Blog
December 20, 2012
In Which I Share A Solstice Recipe!
Dear Reader,
There are a lot of fascinating Christmas Traditions associated with the West Country of England, which is the region I write about in Midnight in Your Arms. As tonight is the Winter Solstice, I thought I would research traditions that are particularly pagan in their origins and share one with you. I thought it might get us all in the mood to make my recipe inspired by my character Tess, who is an old Dartmoor hedgwitch as well as a medium and a scullery maid. She is a very busy la...
October 31, 2012
In Which I Wish You The Happiest of Halloweens!
Here are some very mischievous looking little 1950s kids out for a night on the town! I hope you all are having a marvelous Samhain Night. Merry Meet and Blessed Be!
Dear Reader,
It’s been a whirlwind few days since Midnight In Your Arms came out yesterday, and I’m ready to kick back and relax for the evening, handing out candy to little ghosts and ghouls from the neighbourhood. I just wanted to wish you a Happy Fright Night, and let you know that the Blog Tour is still going on strong, and the...
October 24, 2012
In Which There are 7 Days Left Til Halloween!
Dear Reader,
Guess what, ghouls and ghosties? The One Week Halloween Countdown has begun! In only seven days, the veils between the world of the living and the land of the dead will have grown so thin that everyone will have to dress up in costumes to fool the roaming spirits into thinking the rest of us are one of them! And so strangers will give us all candy, of course! After all, inappropriately sexy costumes and mass amounts of sugar are what the Halloween season is all about. And T.Ping y...
October 22, 2012
In Which Midnight In Your Arms Packs Its Bags For The Official Blog Tour!
Dear Reader,
In one week exactly, the Official Blog Tour for Midnight In Your Arms begins! I wanted to let you know the itinerary, so you can visit each of these marvelous blogs on the day of my guest appearance, and show your support for the amazing people who read and review romance novels simply because they love them. Where would we be without people like them? I shudder to think! Also, visiting the blog stops will give you an opportunity to win an e-book copy of Midnight In Your Arms for...
October 15, 2012
In Which I Make a Few Announcements
Pre-order Midnight In Your Arms in Paperback!
Dear Reader–
I’m excited to announce that for those of you who have no plans to jump on the digital bandwagon just yet, the paperback edition of Midnight In Your arms will follow the digital release by less than a month! That’s right–MIYA will come out in print on November 27th 2012, hot on the heels of the initial e-book release date of October 30th, so there are two exciting months in a row for me! It’s kind of nice, splitting it up like that–it g...
October 1, 2012
In Which The Countdown Officially Begins!
I can’t wait for JAL’s new masterpiece!
What a fun and sexy romp this will be!
Will my new Halloween historical be able to stack up?
Dear Reader,
I don’t know if you know this, but October is my favourite month. The air has turned fresh and crisp, and smells of smoke and dying wood. The leaves crunch under my wellies when I take my dog for long walks around Silvermere Lake and along the Stave River on which I live. I start wearing the sweaters I knitted over the summer, and instead of donning jus...
September 19, 2012
In Which Midnight In Your Arms Receives Critical Pre-Release Praise!
I’m absurdly pleased to see that this cover featuring the inimitable Waldo is the one in which the review for Midnight In Your Arms is wrapped!
Dear Reader–
There is no better feeling than finding out that someone other than a dear friend, relative, or editor has read one’s book and really liked it. There is something about unbiased praise that makes the author’s heart beat just a little bit faster as the reality of critical acceptance seeps in. Hopefully the initial praise will make the bad re...
September 12, 2012
In Which I Return To The Schoolroom In Order To Better Understand An Elusive Character
Dear Reader,
Do you ever get the feeling a character isn’t telling you everything there is to know about him or herself?
I’ve been getting this feeling a lot lately, and it makes writing very difficult for an author trying to finish a story by a certain date. Of course, I can always just push through, and discover my characters as I go along—but that’s a pastime best left to the reader side of the equation. No one wants to read a novel written by an author who clearly doesn’t know her own chara...
September 5, 2012
In Which I Use Social Media To Ponder Social Media
Dear Reader,
Writers have to do a lot of work when it comes to their books that have absolutely nothing to do with the writing process itself. Before I sold Midnight In Your Arms back in June, I had heard from a lot of other writers that they spend more time NOT writing than they do actually writing. I didn’t want to believe them, but now I know it’s true! The modern novelist as so much more on her plate than the paltry writing of novels. She must keep up with social media, including tweeting...
August 1, 2012
In Which I Reveal The Shiny New Cover of Midnight In Your Arms!
Isn’t it BEAUTIFUL, Dear Reader? I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it! The Avon design team has really outdone themselves this time. It has all of the elegance and glamour of the Jazz Era itself, with the bare-kneed heroine in her little red dress and sleek pumps, that rope of pearls beckoning the hero to grab hold and pull her closer…
I love these new covers that show the heroine alone. It seems so much more intimate, somehow—like the reader is in the hero’s mind, looking at the object of...
