IN GREEN PASTURES – LAUNCH DATE APPROACHING FAST!
I can hardly wait! After all the hard work of writing and editing In Green Pastures, meeting AMP’s exacting production standards, proof-reading and proof-reading again. The launch date, 30th November, is almost upon us.
There’ll be articles in my local Press, signed copies available in local shops. Six signed copies of In Green Pastures have even been chosen as competition prizes in the super news magazine Sussex Local. Friends and family members are reading review copies and the feedback from them is super. So exciting!
Don’t you love my cover design? I’m delighted with it! The stunning image is part of an actual Women’s Land Army recruiting poster from 1917. It was the very poster that persuaded Florence to go ahead and sign up to the WLA. She learned to milk cows, drive a horse-drawn plough, dig potatoes and even deliver lambs. I’m hugely grateful to the Imperial War Museum for giving me permission to use it. So evocative!
There’s so much to do to tell the world that In Green Pastures has arrived! And, of course, I want to do everything I possibly can to put the word about, and encourage potential readers to delve into the story.
You’ve read the cover blurb, which I’m sure you find inviting, but I can tell you a little bit more to whet your appetite without giving too much away. No spoilers! Promise!
In Green Pastures is in part a homage to the largely unsung work of the WLA in World War 1, but it’s so much more besides. We journey with Florence as she regains her self-confidence and self-belief. We admire Nell’s resourcefulness raising her five children. We suffer with Wilf, almost broken by his war experience and we meet Holger, a good German.
There’s romance, too – oh, yes! – and the story prizes positive human qualities like tolerance, reconciliation and humanity in vivid contrast to the brutality of the war. Indeed, I see In Green Pastures as very much an anti-war novel.
Please read it and review it for me!
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