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Harriet has to be extra careful with what she says...

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“And where do you live, Harriet?” she asked. I’d forgotten that I’d told her my name on my first trip here.
“A place similar to this,” I told her. I wasn’t lying, but I also wasn’t being a hundred per cent honest with her either. “I live with my mother, whom I care for. I go to school and I do the normal things a teenager would do.”
“Teenager?” she asked. Great, two sentences and I’d already given away a bit of the future.

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#TeaserTuesday

Harriet is working against a clock...

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“How long has it been?” I asked, remembering that the time between her visit to me and my first visit had been a week for her and only a day for me. I was wondering if it had been another week since I’d been here.
“Four days,” Dorothy said, understanding what I meant immediately. “Time is getting short and I prayed that the Lord would return you to me to save my father.”

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Harriet doesn't have much to relieve her stress, but music always helps...

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First though, I was going to play. I picked up the song book I was using and picked a song at random, checking that I knew the chords and softly strummed along to the tune in my head. I didn’t sing when I played and although some people used it to keep time, I wasn’t one of them. I didn’t sing because I didn’t like anything to get in the way of the sound and because I didn’t want to disturb Mum. I could make my strums quiet and soft, but a voice had the ability to carry to another room.
I must have played for about forty-five minutes and as I did, I felt my coil go to being just a piece of wire. I really need to stop with this metaphor; I was feeling less stressed and anxious basically!

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Harriet isn't good at making friends...

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“You don’t have any ulterior motive?” I asked, instantly regretting it when I saw her face. It had gone from her smiling face to a stony expression. I was about to apologise when she spoke.
“You know what, Harriet. I’ve been nothing but a friend to you over the past couple of days. I’ve listened to you when you wanted to talk, I didn’t tell anyone about our talk about seeing ghosts because I felt like I’d found a friend and I didn’t listen in to your conversation with your Mum and I watched out for you while you made the call. I’ve been sympathetic and I’ve let some really rude things slide because I assumed there was a reason for it. Now I see that there is a reason you don’t have any friends here, basically you’re a bitch!” she snapped, grabbing her bag and storming off.

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#TeaserTuesday

Harriet has a long task ahead of her, and no idea how to go about it...

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“Why do you need my help?” I asked again.
“My father has been wrongly accused of the crime of murder,” Dorothy told me, tears shining in her eyes. “If you do not help me, he will hang and our family will be reduced to poverty. We’ll all be split up and sent to the workhouse. I can’t allow that to happen.”

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#TeaserTuesday

Harriet isn't sure what actually happened, but it couldn't have been real right?

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“Have you ever seen a ghost?” I asked her. Once the words were out, I realised, there was no going back. I couldn’t erase them from her mind, and I didn’t really want to; I wanted someone I could talk to, someone who was actually face-to-face with me. I mean, sure I’d probably ask Violet or Jeorgia when I next saw them online, but for now, Michelle would have to do.
“In real life?” she replied, looking thoughtful. I guess she was as surprised as I was that we were actually having a conversation.
“Yeah, I mean, I’ve seen them in movies and such, but I wondered if you’d ever seen one yourself, up close, in the flesh so to speak.”
“Maybe,” she said, looking cagey. I could tell she thought I was going to tease her about it if she told me.

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Harriet has no idea where she is or why, just that things have gotten strange…

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I was still stood in my back garden, except it didn’t look like my back garden. I thought for a while as I stood there trying to work out what was different. The tree that normally stood in the corner wasn’t there; the shed was, but it looked completely different. The back door looked different too, and there were no pots of plants surrounding the edge of the garden. There was also the ghost I had seen stood about ten feet away from me and she was staring at me. Only this time, she wasn’t the one that looked unreal; as I looked down at myself, I realised I looked like I was a ghost.  

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Harriet just wants to help right the wrong of the past...

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I slowly walked towards her and as I got closer, she moved back against the wall. She didn’t go straight through it which gave me the impression that whatever she was, she wasn’t a typical walk-through-walls ghost. Her facial expression changed to one of fear and that’s when I realised that she could see me and she was afraid of me. Just as I was about to say something to her she spoke, softly.
“You have to help us,” was all she said.

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END OF 2016 GIVEAWAY!!

To celebrate the end of 2016, I will be doing a giveaway on Rafflecopter: a Rafflecopter giveaway

You can win a signed copy of Waiting On You, The Friendship Triangle & Destination: Unknown as well as a set of signed SWAG and a £10 (or $10) Amazon gift card! Check out the link and be sure to enter. It's open from December 1st and closes December 30th at midnight GMT!  

So be sure to check it out!!

Creative Characters: Harriet & Dot

Writing Destination: Unknown
Creative Characters: Harriet & Dot

I got the idea for Destination: Unknown when I moved into the house I currently live in in August 2009. It is in an historic part of the town I live, and the area is it's own little village. Given that our house had been standing since 1840, I became a little curious with finding out who had lived here previously. As I dug into old census reports and other stories, I got the idea that if a character were to live here and be able to go back 100 years via some part of the house, then they could meet the person living here. I threw in a crime twist and the idea was born.

I already had a clear plan for the character living in 2010. She would be a young carer for her disabled mother. A bit of a loner, but having been burnt by people calling themselves her friends in the past, she didn't mind it all that much. Harriet would be fifteen, happy at school and happy at home. She would carry burdens that most fifteen-year-olds are lucky not to know, but she wouldn't be bitter or upset about it. Yes, she wanted her mother well, but at the same time, she didn't blame her, or feel she was held back. Their bond was strong, Harriet's father having abandoned the family before she was born, and in her eyes, she was doing what her mother would do for her.

Enter Dot, full name Dorothy. She lived in the same house, but in the year 1910. Her father was accused of murder and looked to be hanged for the crime. With her large family facing the workhouse, she looks for any way to prove her father did not kill his foreman. She appears to Harriet as a ghost one evening, and then the next day, as Harriet is looking out the kitchen window, a paving stone in her garden lights up. Harriet goes to explore and finds herself being sent back one hundred years into the past. She meets Dorothy face-to-face, with only enough time for Dot to plead for her help before Harriet is sent back to 2010.

The whole story flits between the present day and 1910, as Harriet gets to know Dot and her family and promises to help. The only problem is that time moves faster in 1910, where one visit a day apart is actually weeks, and time is running out for Dot and her family. Can Harriet save the day and rewrite history?

It was a joy to write, and I loved the way it crafted onto the page. I had a great time researching both my own house and the former occupants, to imagining how it would've looked in 1910. I was, at the time, working towards my degree and so snippets were written here and there. Time stolen away to look into 1910 and see where the story was going, and for once, I didn't actually have a clear idea of how it would end. When I finished it, I put it away for a few years and when I started the editing process, I was actually finding myself very immersed in the story. One of the few times I've been eager to get the editing done because I really did love writing, reading and editing it!

Be sure to grab yourself a copy either in paperback here, or in Kindle here.

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From Joey's Instagram

Because a #writer never sleeps! #beingawriter #joeywrites #indieauthor #writerlife #authorsofinstagram #goals #jowrimogo #authorslife

A photo posted by Joey Paul (@joeybug) on Jul 8, 2016 at 10:57am PDT

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A square photo of a white door with a small rectangle sign hung on the door. It's held up with string and is white, with a page from book placed in the middle. On top of the page are the words "I'm not sleeping, I'm plottting!" The caption reads: Because a #writer never sleeps!]

Happy Release Day!! Destination: Unknown is live on Amazon!! #beingawriter #joeywrites #indieauthor #writerlife #authorsofinstagram #authorslife #joeyisanauthor #awesome #youngadultbooks #mysterybooks #paranormalbooks

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[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A square photo of a black phone screen. In the middle if the front cover for Destination: Unknown, which has two train tickets, one is orange and green and reads: "Destination: Unknown" while the other, underneath the right hand corner of the first is brown with "1910" on the edges as well as the words "Joey Paul" in the centre. On the edge of the screen is another cover for a book, though it is not clear what book. The caption reads: Happy Release Day!! Destination: Unknown is live on Amazon!]

So I'm on the writing train lately and feeling good about it. I feel like I'm actually an author today which is a feeling that comes and goes but to celebrate the good here's a #selfie of me after a hard day's work resting in bed with my tablet. Back to work tomorrow! #beingawriter #joeywrites #indieauthor #writerlife #authorsofinstagram #authorslife #joeyisanauthor #awesome #youngadultbooks #joeyhasagremlin #youngadultauthor

A photo posted by Joey Paul (@joeybug) on Jul 11, 2016 at 11:38am PDT

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Book Launch for Destination: Unknown

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Book Trailer - Destination: Unknown

OUT JULY 9TH 2016 IN KINDLE & PAPERBACK

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Cover Reveal: Destination: Unknown

[image description: book cover art, the background is paving stones with tufts of grass through the edges of the brown dark stones. In the middle of the picture there is an orange and white ticket that reads:Destination: Unknown. At the bottom left of the ticket is the Railway sign and on the bottom right are small text which reads : SINGLE 2010. Just below the first ticket is a second one, a beige-brown coloured ticket that has across the centre: Joey Paul. On both sides of the ticket is: 1910. The top of the ticket has “2nd - Single” on it.]