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A TRIP TO AMERICA
The Tech Boys Series revolves around a set of college friends who live in New York, so I was excited when restrictions lifted after COVID...
evemrileyauthor
May 12, 20223 min read
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THE READER VIEWS AWARDS
Another day, another award. Sigh. It's just so tedious how people keep giving The Refusal these things . . . hahaha. Being serious for a...
evemrileyauthor
May 4, 20223 min read
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CHAPTER 34 HAD A MUCH LONGER SEX SCENE
Another great joy of launching The Refusal was finding out what readers had to say. It was such a delight to see all their edits when...
evemrileyauthor
Apr 26, 20222 min read
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WINNING THE PINNACLE BOOK AWARDS
I put The Refusal in for as many awards as I could find, expecting that the competition would be fierce and maybe I'd win something if I...
evemrileyauthor
Apr 19, 20221 min read
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AN INDIES TODAY BOOK AWARD SEMI-FINALIST
I am so thrilled to be a semi-finalist in the Indies Today 2021 book awards. Their book review for The Refusal is amazing too (see...
evemrileyauthor
Mar 7, 20222 min read
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8 VICIOUSLY FUNNY Marriage Tweets
One of the joys of being involved in the bookish community on social media is exploring fun things to post, alongside promoting my books....
evemrileyauthor
Feb 2, 20221 min read
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WINNING A BOOK AWARD
So I was scrolling down the page thinking . . . yeah, yeah, won't even have got placed. There's not even a romance section . . . there's...
evemrileyauthor
Jan 11, 20221 min read
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A ROMANCE READER VIDEO
One of the great joys of being on social media is all the amazing readers who get in touch. When @romance.novel.junkies (find her here)...
evemrileyauthor
Dec 1, 20211 min read
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Romance reader CHIT-CHAT
Readers of The Refusal have had a lot they want to talk to me about. That lift scene. Does Janus's company go down? Is Fabian guilty? And...
evemrileyauthor
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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EDITS, EDITS, EDITS
One of the joys of sharing The Refusal on social media has come from fans responding with their own ideas about the book, often in quite...
evemrileyauthor
Nov 1, 20212 min read
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A CATNAP
We got Daisy as a kitten and she was the runt of the litter. At six weeks, she was half the size she was supposed to be, having never...
evemrileyauthor
Oct 26, 20211 min read
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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.
One of the joys of writing is including places you love, and The Techboys Series contains a whole series of places in New York that are...
evemrileyauthor
Oct 18, 20211 min read
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A ROMANCE BOOKBOX
I'm delighted to announce that The Refusal is being included in a romance bookbox and I am so excited to be included with Elle Nicoll and...
evemrileyauthor
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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MORE ON ROMANCE READERS
Although I've written a book, probably like all authors, I'm first and foremost a reader. But I'm a very specific kind of reader - a...
evemrileyauthor
Jul 15, 20211 min read
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FIVE ROMANCE NOVELS IN THE MAIL
When the first author copies arrived it was so exciting to hold The Refusal in my hands for the first time and see all my words in print...
evemrileyauthor
Jul 6, 20211 min read
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CAUGHT MID CHAPTER
I absolutely love it when people message me on instagram and ask what's going to happen next, or just to be excited, when they are part...
evemrileyauthor
Jun 28, 20211 min read
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MAKING FRIENDS IN THE HILLS
There's something about running in the highlands that makes for an adventure. Sometimes I trip over and injure myself like I did this...
evemrileyauthor
Jun 23, 20211 min read
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A LOCKDOWN ESCAPE
The camera work on this video is a shocker - don't think I'm going to master booktok any time soon! (check out my account here). We...
evemrileyauthor
Jun 17, 20211 min read
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I DON'T THINK IT WILL EVER GET OLD
Another message from another reader mid book. I hope that when I've got lots of books out there, I will feel just as excited about these...
evemrileyauthor
Jun 15, 20211 min read
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MESSAGES FROM ROMANCE READERS
My ARC readers came to me via Instagram and gave me such lovely feedback about The Refusal, often as soon as they started reading or in...
evemrileyauthor
Jun 13, 20211 min read
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