Leeza McAuliffe Has Arrived....

Evidence of the perils of requesting your favourite
colour as the front cover's background but then showcasing
it where your favourite colour is the blog's background. D'oh!

Da da-da da da da da daaaaaa!

Hopefully that's how to spell a fanfare, because I NEED to fanfare exciting news.

Or how about this? Ta-daaaaaaaaaaa! Buckle up for marvellousness beyond your wildest dreams, because here we go...

Leeza McAuliffe Has Something To Say is pre-orderable NOW!!!!

Click here for all that order-ability. Doesn't it feel nice? Click again. Keep going. It'll be out on March 7th 2019. Get excited!

To say I'm giddy is a bit of an understatement. This feels massive. I've been going on and on about this book for so long and now the end is nigh - in a good way. It'll be published on March 7th 2019, and available from an online bookstore near you. 

I've read through the entire thing about seventeen times in the past week (OK, just three but it's been a graft) and I'm ready for a lie down. But after having it solely in my head for so long, it's beyond thrilling to know it's emerging into the world in just a few short months. If you're so moved, pre-order it now, and then forget about it till March. It'll be a nice surprise.

In terms of audience, it's suitable for children of all ages* but would also be a good read for adults who want to relive the angst of being on the cusp of maturity. Because, hey, isn't that how we feel no matter what age we are? 

Here's the blurb, if you want more convincing.

Intrigued? Excellent. Click here. I'm going to blitz the Internet over the next few days with all sorts of marketing jiggery pokery (aka photos and tweets) but here, for your viewing and pre-ordering pleasure, is the bulk of it all, in one handy place. 

First, the opening pages of the proof...

Even more intrigued? There's more here! And next is my Amazon bio photo. Hello.

And here's my Amazon bio. Are we getting bored yet? 

Each chapter is a new month. FWIW, my favourite is December. Feel the Glow! 

Leeza McAuliffe Has Something To Say is available anywhere that sells books online. (That's what I'm told, anyway.) So far it's on the Amazon and Barnes and Noble sites. It'll come across to Waterstones and Foyles soon. It's also available as an e-book, from Amazon, if you prefer. Whichever way you ingest your books, I'd be ever so chuffed if you gave mine a whirl.

So, there we have it. Business as usual next week. I'll be rambling on about female representation in film, or the perils of peaking too soon with Christmas prep. Something like that, anyway. But for now, I'm going to keep googling myself (not a euphemism!) and feel proud that a random idea I had four years ago, about a multi-siblinged family, squashed into a small house, with pre-pubescent angst thrown in, is finally OUT THERE. 

Have a lovely week, folks.


*There are very few parental advisory issues. Nothing dodge, but a couple of things might raise the odd question. There are several mentions of puberty and periods, the word 'willy' and 'penis' are used in relation to a scan photo, and the term 'cow' is used as an insult. At one point someone reports that another character uses the word for a lady dog (gasp!) but that's your lot. Oh, there's a reference to Sex Ed. in school too. Standard primary school stuff. No dodgy language or adult-only content here. Just a good romp of a tale about Leeza's life as it unfolds over the course of a tumultuous twelve months. Oh the drama!