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Today, we're teamed up with Rachel's Random Resources to bring you a stop along their current promotion featuring the work of J.E. Rowney. First, we'll shine a spotlight on their current release, and then, we'll take a look behind the scenes to learn more about the life behind the writer! Ready or not, here comes today's title in the spotlight...
Life Lessons
Lessons of a Student Midwife series, Book 1
by
J.E. Rowney
About the book...
For fans of "Call the Midwife", "Hard Pushed" or "This is Going to Hurt".
Life Lessons is a new adult chick-lit medical drama, with splashes of clean romance.
Expect an unputdownable emotional page-turner that will take you deep into the life lessons of a student midwife.
Violet wants to be a midwife, but she has struggled with anxiety throughout her teenage years.
With her best friend Zoe at her side, she gets a place at University and starts training for her dream job.
Can she overcome her fears and find the self-confidence to make it through her first year?
Will Zoe's romance with their housemate spell dating disaster?
Book one of the Lessons of a Student Midwife series.
This book is a prequel to Ghosted, the bestselling novel.
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My journey into authordom...by J.E. Rowney
Although I always wanted to be a writer, I did actually start out my career as a midwife. I worked for ten years in midwifery practice, before moving over into a management position. It was while I was working in management that I found my way back to writing. I had to commute from my home in West Yorkshire to Manchester and London for work, and the long train journeys gave me the ideal opportunity to spend some time putting down the outlines of my first novel.
I changed job, moved down to the South Coast, and all the time I thought about writing. After I finally took the plunge and began to focus on writing, it was only a matter of time before my midwifery background started to nose its way into my books. They say “write what you know” – and what I know about is midwifery. Hopefully I know a few more things too, but it is definitely my specialist subject.
When I started to write “Ghosted”, my third novel, I introduced Violet Cobham as the main character. She is a midwife who works long, irregular shifts, suffers with panic attacks, and loves her best friend Zoe. The book was so well received that readers asked if I would write a sequel. I thought about that for a while, but I realised that the interesting story would come from Violet and Zoe’s backstory. There are brief mentions in “Ghosted” of people and events from the past, and exploring these in a prequel felt like it was going to be a lot of fun for me and my readers. The idea for “The Lessons of a Student Midwife” series was born!
The series runs over three novels – one for each year of the university course that Violet is undertaking. The first novel, available now, “Life Lessons” follows Violet and Zoe from their arrival at their university home through to the end of their first year. Will Violet overcome her anxiety to pass her exams? Will she have the confidence to deliver a baby? Will Zoe ever get it together with the man she has a huge crush on? It’s a light-hearted, but still emotionally, moving novel.
Books two and three will be available later this year, so readers won’t have long to wait after enjoying “Life Lessons”. You can buy “Life Lessons” now, and pre-order “Love Lessons”, which will be released on August 31st.
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About the author...
J.E.Rowney spent several years in the cold Yorkshire hills, which brings the flavour of the moorland countryside into her work. She now lives in Dorset, and the sun and sea are slowly creeping in as influences.
"Charcoal", her first novel, was published in 2012 to wide critical acclaim, and was a bestselling novel across the whole of Amazon within days of release.
Ms Rowney has recently been awarded the Dinesh Allirajah Writing Prize 2020.
Her third novel, "Ghosted", was released in January 2020 and quickly also became a bestseller.
She spends lots of time writing in coffee shops, so if you see her, say hello.
Ms. Rowney says: "I always dreamed of being a writer, until I realised that I was. Then I started to write."
You can find out more about JE Rowney on her website at jerowney.com, or follow on social media.
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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this promotion, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. Be sure to check out the rest of tour for more bookish fun!
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