Book Birthday Blitz: Feel-Good Stories by Sarah Swatridge
Today is the book birthday for Feel-Good Stories by Sarah Swatridge and it’s a blog blitz! This book is made up of heart warming stories! And today on this site Sarah is sharing an extract from the story Hey Mr Postman! She is also having a giveaway if you live in the UK!
Book Description:
An eclectic mix of heart-warming stories, full of memorable, quirky characters. Read about the heroic postie, the eccentric duke, a spoilt parrot, a true friend and a determined would-be husband. Perfect bite-sized reading with your favourite drink.
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A note from Sarah:
Hey Mr Postman! – One for romantics! Set around Valentine’s Day, a postman goes the extra mile to make sure he delivers a message…general feel-good story and the sort of postie everyone would like to have.
Hey Mr Postman!
Simon, the postman, looked again at the postcard. It definitely said ‘49 Franklin Avenue’ and yet there only seemed to be thirty well-established homes.
He was fairly new to the area, having moved on his thirtieth birthday! Perhaps there was a Franklin Road, Street or Crescent? He checked his phone. The signal wasn’t great but eventually he found there were no other similar road names.
Of course, that didn’t account for any new-builds. It seemed to take an age before new postcodes were updated.
He studied the postcard. The picture was of a bunch of roses. The warmth of the red made him smile. They cheered him on a bitterly cold February morning. It was almost Valentine’s Day; this card could be really important…
It was addressed to Lizzie Halladay, so he looked up that name, but the search wasn’t helpful. Time was getting on and he needed to finish his round. He slipped the postcard in his pocket and continued on his way.
He returned to the depot and spoke to his supervisor. Together they examined the postcard but even the postmark wasn’t clear. They had no clue as to who had sent it. It wasn’t even signed, and the message seemed rather cryptic. “So, what do we do now?” Simon asked.
“There’s nothing more we can do.” His boss shook his head. “The policy is to place it in the ‘undelivered’” tray for one month, after which it’s shredded and the paper recycled.”
Simon wasn’t happy with that. “I don’t like to stand in the way of true love,” he said. “Can I try and track her down?”
“Not officially,” his supervisor said, then added, “It’ll have to be in your own time. “And don’t do anything to give the post office a bad name! And remember, we haven’t had this conversation?”
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About the Author:
Sarah Swatridge’s name can often be seen in women’s magazines worldwide such as My Weekly, Woman’s Weekly, Fiction Feast. She also writes novels, mainly historical, which can be found in the Large Print section of your public library. These novels are standalone and the themes vary from – women setting up a co-operative together in response to dishonest traders in the area (United we Stand) to stories set around employees in a biscuit factory (Biscuit Wars, Gentle Annie, Cakes in the Biscuit Factory etc) to the work of pawn brokers (Adam’s Emporium) or a woman in 1900 wanting an adventure before agreeing to marry (Biddy’s Big Adventure – also available from Calibre Audio if you have problems accessing print in the traditional way).
Contact Sarah:
Website
Facebook Profile
**UK Giveaway**
Enter to win one of two paperback copies of An Honourable Wager by Sarah Swatridge
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My September 2026 Reads
Today is the last day of September, it’s crazy how tomorrow will be OCTOBER! YAY, it’s ‘scary month’! I LOVE HALLOWEEN! But for now, it is time to share what I read this month. I went in between reading one arc and listening to an alc of the same book. The rest of my books were audiobooks.
Here are the books I completely read this month. They are listed in the order that I finished them:
This is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere
The First Scarlet Door by J.D. Barker – 4 stars- Advanced copies, I went between reading and listening to this one.
Daughter of Egypt by Marie Benedict- 4 stars
The Survivors Guild by Gabriella Saab- 4 stars
I declined to rate Hayden Panettiere’s memoir. Memoirs can be tricky things as it is someone’s life, and they will share what they choose to share. It is harder to rate a memoir once a person has passed as she recently has. And this memoir was only published a few months before her death. My review for her memoir will be forthcoming.
My other reads each received four stars. Out of those three my top read was The Survivors Guild. It is historical fiction and based on the aftermath of the Titanic sinking and two women of different classes and an infant. This book was compelling listening!
What did YOU read in September?
[Top]Blog Tour: Guest Post: Invisible by Heleyne Hammersley
Today I am helping to end the blog tour for Invisible by Heleyne Hammersley by sharing a guest post! She shares about her journey with her character DI Kate Fletcher and the series. This one was just released on September 23rd and is book six in the series. **She is also having an international giveaway where she is giving away five kindle copies!**
Book Description:
An icy morning, a muddy riverbank. The body of a promising swimmer is found in the River Don close to Thorpe. Returning from a six-month absence, DI Kate Fletcher leads her first murder case since she nearly lost her own life to a desperate killer.
Grappling with her own doubts and insecurities, she has to negotiate a team transformed by differences in staffing and in attitude. Everything has changed and nobody is comfortable.
A second body leads to a strong suspect, but the evidence is circumstantial and far from clear cut. Kate’s ex-Detective Sergeant finds the breakthrough they need to help track down a cunning and meticulous murderer who has no conscience and no fear of consequences.
But can Kate act in time to prevent more deaths?
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I’ve been on a bit of an adventure! Not one of my usual walking or cycling trips but an exploration of a world I knew nothing about a few years ago.
My DI Kate Fletcher series originally did quite well with a publisher but, after a slump in sales, I opted to take back my rights and have a think about where to go next with Kate and her team. It turned out to be a very long think. Over a year later, I decided to republish the whole series myself on Amazon Kindle. The problem was I had no idea where to start. I had no idea how to format my Word document for Kindle, no idea how to market the book once it was live and no idea what to expect in terms of sales as the books had already been around for a while.
I’d love to say I watched a couple of videos and did a bit of reading and worked it all out, but in reality I asked a lot of questions and received a lot of excellent advice from others who were on a similar journey. There are some amazing and generous people in the online writing community! I managed to find a cover designer who understood what I wanted and I finally pressed ‘publish’ on Closer to Home in March 2024 with the other titles following later the same year.
But I had nothing to follow them up with. I’d almost given up on Kate and had written two books in a potential new series set in Cumbria, but she wouldn’t let me write her off (pun intended) and I found myself thinking about where I’d left her in 2021. Was it right that the series finished with her battered and broken? And what about her relationship with Nick? I felt there was quite a lot of unfinished business. So Invisible was born.
The story picks up six months after the end of Shattered when Kate finally returns to work after an extended absence. Her team have survived without her, but there have been changes in both personnel and attitude and she has to navigate new personalities and changed relationships while trying to apprehend a vicious serial killer – all the usual police procedural stuff.
I’m so happy with the result. I asked Morgen, who’d edited one of my previous books, if she’d get rid of all my worst writing habits and she did a great job. My cover designer came up with a design that fits well with the rest of the series and…I’m publishing in paperback as well as on Kindle. (Another adventure, complete with pulling my hair out, screaming and throwing things!)
I have no idea what to expect on September 23rd when Invisible will be published. I hope there will be reviews. I hope that they’re mainly positive. I hope that people who enjoyed the other books in the series will come back for another story, despite the long gap.
I think it was a good decision for me to continue Kate’s narrative – hopefully there’ll be people out there who’ll agree.
About the Author:
Heleyne Hammersley is a British writer based in Cumbria. She writes psychological suspense thrillers and crime novels.
Heleyne has been writing since junior school – her first work was a collection of poems called ‘Give Them the Works’ when she was ten years old. The poems were carefully handwritten on plain paper and tied together with knitting wool.
When she’s not writing, Heleyne can often be found wandering on the fells or cycling the back roads of Cumbria in search of coffee and cake.
Contact Heleyne:
Threads @heleynehammersleyauthor
Instagram @heleynehammersleyauthor
**International Giveaway**
Enter to Win one of five Kindle Copies of Invisible (distributed via Amazon)
Enter to win here!
*Terms and Conditions –Worldwide entries welcome. Please enter using the Gleam box above. The winner will be selected at random via Gleam from all valid entries and will be notified by Twitter and/or email. If no response is received within 7 days then Rachel’s Random Resources reserves the right to select an alternative winner. Open to all entrants aged 18 or over. Any personal data given as part of the competition entry is used for this purpose only and will not be shared with third parties, with the exception of the winners’ information. This will passed to the giveaway organiser and used only for fulfilment of the prize, after which time Rachel’s Random Resources will delete the data. I am not responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.
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