Free kindle download thru until Tuesday 28th

One of my three books of short stories is available as a freebie kindle download on Amazon from August 25 until August 28. Get it and enjoy...

New cover design

Here is the new design for the front cover of "Guardian Angel: a contemporary Scottish fable" and we think it is really cool...

Now on special offer - only 99P

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Now on special offer - only 99c 

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One of the covers that didn't make it - but I still like it...

Love your neighbour and yourself

A thought for today....

"Love is the centre and the core of everything, and that Self is the place where all love must begin. Those who love others grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin: with the person in the mirror.

Will you not love yourself grandly today? For the world's sake?"



Neale Donald Walsch

The link

My new novel on Amazon.com is available here......

Guardian Angel - Kindle edition by Jean de Beurre. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.


Or here in the UK


On the Amazon page you can read the first chapter by clicking the "look inside" option.

ABOUT ME

About this author

I write books, short stories, and sometimes boring stuff that I am sure no one will ever read - but I am paid to write it!

I paint pictures to recover from writing and I write to recover from painting pictures. I have a day job that pays the bills. I am married, Christian and have degrees in arts, town planning and theology.

I love strawberries and tomatoes but not together. In winter I eat porridge for breakfast but in summer I eat granola.

I hate the slugs and mice that eat the veggies I try to grow in my garden. I live in Scotland. 

What else do you want to know?

Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel

Now published

It is out...

you can buy it now on Amazon
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in the USA click here

ALSO AVAILABLE IN OTHER NATIONS AND JURISDICTIONS!

NEW BOOK OUT VERY SOON

GUARDIAN ANGEL my new novel is almost available.

It will be published in next day or so....

I am excited!

Guardian Angel Gregorious is sent to Scotland on a mission to give fate a kick in the right direction. Many people in the west end of Glasgow need some angelic help. There are the young women who have escaped from unhealthy relationships and come to stay in a women's refuge run by eccentric nuns. There is the owner of a nearby chic 'angel' boutique who has never seen an angel. There is an ex-rugby player who is confined to a wheelchair since an accident left him depressed and withdrawn. And many miles away, on a Hebridean island there is a troubled young minister.

Add to this mix a family where women have the gift of second sight, a family seeking to reclaim their inheritance and an increasingly desperate gangster who wants revenge on the woman who left him. Guardian Angel Gregorious steps into the storm to put fate back on course, but will anyone accept guidance from a heavenly messenger? Can he have any influence in the twenty-first century when many don't believe?

Jean de Beurre writes a lively paced romantic adventure set in Glasgow and on the beautiful islands of the windswept Hebrides.

New teaser...

New book of short stories now out

My new book of seven short stories is now out for the kindle

Seven short stories of people facing choices or who have made choices that have consequences. 

"Friends Reunited?" is about the unexpected consequences of joining a website 
"The Visitation" tells of a preachers strange message. 
In "Julie's Revenge" we discover how Julie gets back at the woman who stole her husband. 
"The Church Cat" is a fable. 
"The Sister's Letter" is an intimate letter from a younger woman to her elder sister about her solution for a troublesome husband. 
"The Gift" tells of a strange encounter 
"The Boy who only saw Screens" is about the choices parents make when they bring up a child 

Click here to buy it here in the UK

Click here to buy in the USA

Capcir Spring - new cover

New cover 

I wasn't ecstatic about the last one...    

I think this is much better.

Free promotion

This book of short stories is on a free promotion at Amazon 
from Thursday 12th September to Sunday 15th September 2013 - your chance to download it to your kindle for free......

Price cut....

From the 1st September 2013 Capcir Spring - the romantic adventure set in the French mountains - is available as a download for a specially reduced price £0.77  or  $0.99
Download your copy today.

UK link to download...

.com  US link to download

Free ebook

My book "Tales of mystery and magic" will be on a free promotion on Amazon from 15th - 19th August 2013

After that time it will revert to the former price....

book review - “The diary of a frazzled mother” by Julia Frazzleby

This is not a genre that I normally read but I finished and enjoyed this book.

This book in diary form describes the pressures of life for a middle class family where two incomes are needed to support a menagerie of animals and dependent children.

It is written by the frazzled wife who takes responsibility for everything. The husband is a shadowy figure who takes little part in parenting or family life – perhaps he is just needed to provide the dosh to keep the whole show on the road!

In parts it was a very funny book and there were several places where I laughed out loud.

Other parts were alien to my experience: I never tweet, I text rarely and couldn't imaging why anyone would want alpacas, sheep, pigs cats, dogs and horses as pets! I am sure I would have been frazzled too if I had taken on looking after this zoo whilst holding down a full time job and having responsibility for an elderly parent suffering from dementia as well as a teen with issues at school.

A few of the numerous incidents portrayed may have been extremely funny for those there at the time as they dissolved in fits of giggles however they aren't necessarily as amusing in a written account. The author uses acronyms for all the protagonists, such as SIL for sister in law, but there were so many of these that I found this literary device overused. The awful sister in law is so dreadful that she becomes an unbelievable figure of fun and I was cheering on the teens as they found ways to humiliate her.

It is a good example of its genre and there are many incidents that working parents who juggle many responsibilities will recognise.