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Welcome to my monthly newsletter for March 2025
Hi there.
I hope you’re well and have had a lovely April. I most definitely have, what with my 30th wedding anniversary and my eldest daughter’s hen night to celebrate. But more of both later.
Book news!
Plenty to report this month. First of all, a newsletter subscribers’ exclusive! As promised on my social media channels, I am sharing the cover for the new book with you before ANYONE ELSE has seen it. To be fair, I always try to do this but my publishers have a sneaking habit of putting the cover out there without telling me and stealing a march. But I’ve checked and this time they definitely haven’t, meaning that you can see it first.
Drum roll please!
Here it is! I hope you like it. I very much do. It’s another new direction for me (hence the delay in its appearance) and we have new fonts too. Sadly, I’m just shy of two million sales so we haven’t been able to add Multi Million Copy Bestselling Author this time but hopefully that will be on the next one!
The book is available to pre-order HERE and it will be out to catch the very tail end of the summer on 26th August. I will tell you a bit more about my inspiration for the book and the story itself nearer the time and will share the first chapter early, so watch this space.
In other book news, I have just finished the main edit of the book coming next, in May 2026 which feels like a terrifyingly long time away but which will be upon us before we realise. My editor and I have settled on the title Model Conduct for reasons that will become apparent in due course.
Over in Italy things are still going well with the book sales, and we have now been contacted by a ‘prominent Italian film producer’ about the rights to Impossible to Forget. Nine hundred and ninety nine times out of a thousand these things go absolutely nowhere but some films do get made so who knows. Maybe it’ll be this one? Fingers crossed.
What am I writing?
As I mentioned, I have been editing Model Conduct, tightening up my characters and increasing the heat of the hot water they find themselves in. I’ve also been getting the new Izzy Bromley book A Bed in the Shed ready, working on both the cover and the audiobook which will again be narrated by the fabulous Imogen Church. No publication date yet but I’m hoping for late June. I’ll let you know as soon as I know.
I’ve also started writing the Izzy Bromley book for next year. It’s called The Glamp Site and I’m having great fun with it. More of that in due course.
Where have I been?
It’s been a very busy month. First I was in Oxfordshire at a fabulous farmhouse for my eldest’s hen night. All my children were there including my son who interrupted his ballet schedule to make a surprise trip over from Croatia. I knew he would be there but my daughter didn’t so the reunion moment was lovely.
Hen nights are far more sophisticated than they were in my day but it was great fun, even the parts I missed because I’d snuck away to my bed! The wedding is in the middle of next month so we’re really counting down the days now.
Then it was our 30th wedding anniversary. We went to Maldives on honeymoon so we decided to go back there this time. Things have changed a lot and most of the staff that we mentioned our previous trip to hadn’t even been born in 1995 😬 but the Maldives is still incredibly beautiful and the people are very friendly and welcoming. Here’s a quick taster of where we were.
What have I read?
Firstly, The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce. I loved this book. It’s a slight departure from her earlier novels, a bit meatier maybe and I preferred it. Vic, a famous artist summons his four adult children to join him at his Italian villa. He has something to tell them but unfortunately he drowns under mysterious circumstances before they get there. What they do know, however, is that he has married a much younger woman who none of the children have met and who now stands to inherit everything. It Italy, the family learns a lot about the mysterious new wife, their father and themselves in this bittersweet tale.
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors is also something of a dysfunctional family book. The three sisters from the Blue family have always been close but when they meet up in New York to sell the family home they discover that each of them has demons that the others weren’t aware of. And then there’s their mother who they blame, possibly unfairly, for much that has befallen them. And what about Nicky, the fourth sister who died tragically young? Without her, they all struggle to find their place in the world. I found it such a compelling read and didn’t want it to end.
Next something very different. The Lamb by Lucy Rose is a folk horror story with very dark undertones. However, the author manages to make the bizarre world she creates feel almost normal by the matter-of-fact way in which the characters approach their diabolical behaviour. It’s a coming of age story told by daughter Margot who lives with her eccentric mother. However, as the novel goes on and a newcomer moves into the household, Margot finds her world spiralling into ever darker places. It’s hard to describe without giving away the plot but it’s an interesting read.
Finally Famous Last Words by Gillan McAllister. The police turn up on Camilla’s doorstep to tell that her husband is involved in an ongoing armed siege situation. But he’s not a hostage – he’s the perpetrator. This doesn’t fit with anything Camilla knows about her husband but then when he escapes and disappears she doesn’t know what to think. When, seven years later, she tries to have him declared dead so she can sell their house and, move strange things begin to happen and Camilla needs to piece all the clues together to work out what happened to Luke. It’s a page turner and even though I guessed much of what was coming that didn’t spoil my enjoyment at all.
And that’s everything for this month. Next month it’s my daughter’s wedding so I’ll tell you all about my ‘mother of the bride’ experience. In the meantime, don’t forget to check out In Another Life and if you want more of what I’m up to you can find me on the usual social media as channels as Imogen Clark Author.
So until next time, happy reading
