Today, I am delighted to welcome Choc Lit author, Kirsty Ferry, as she joins my Christmas countdown!
Welcome to my blog Kirsty, I would love to know how your characters will be spending Christmas…
They’ll be having an extended celebration – if Zac can reach Ivy in time! She’s in Glastonbury, just around about the Winter Solstice. So they might get involved in the celebrations there, by climbing the Tor and visiting the Chalice Well. Then, if, say Ivy heads up to the Isle of Skye where Zac lives, they might have a more traditional Island Christmas, with church, food and drink, the company of good friends, a pub or two and finish it all curled up in front of a roaring fire at Zac’s converted croft. It’ll all be revealed in the book!
OO, it sounds fabulously festive and to tempt readers further here’s the blurb:
How far would you go to be with the one you love at Christmas? How far would you go to be with the one you love at Christmas?
The Isle of Skye is a magical place, especially at Christmas, and there’s no place Zac Fallon would rather be. But whilst Zac has everything he needs on Skye, there’s still something missing – and that something is a somebody called Ivy McFarlane.
Ivy used to work with Zac but then spread her wings and moved to Glastonbury. He’s missed her ever since. Now it’s almost Christmas and Zac realises that the Ivy shaped hole in his life is too big to bear. So starts his festive mission to the mainland – but will he be back in time to spend Christmas in Skye? And, more importantly, will Ivy be with him?
With plenty going on for your characters in the lead up to Christmas, I’d love to know how you will be spending this festive season…
The celebrations will start on Christmas Eve, when we will go to the Family Crib Carol Service at our local church with a big group of friends. The kids have all grown up together and remain very close. Every year we get a photo of them in the same place outside the church. Then we will go home and watch Muppets Christmas Carol and order in a Chinese. Then drink prosecco and wait for Santa – putting out his prosecco, a mince pie and a carrot for Rudolph. Christmas Day we will visit my parents, then come home for lunch. The after that it’s pjs, chocolate, trashy tea, more prosecco, chocolate and relax!
I love the fact that Santa gets prosecco at your house; I must work on the fact that my children leave him milk 😉 Before you go, Kirsty, I’d love you to answer five quick questions from my Christmas selection:
Mince pie or Christmas pudding? Mince pie – I can wolf on down on the hoof, therefore I don’t have to invest any time in sitting down and eating properly.
Favourite Christmas film? Tough one. Either Elf or Muppets Christmas Carol.
Black forest hot chocolate or gingerbread latte? Gingerbread latte. If I had a black forest hot chocolate during the day I’d fall asleep!
First Quality Street flavour to disappear from your tub? Runny caramel, then chewy caramel then strawberry creams.
Who did you play in the school nativity? I can only remember being in one. I was an angel, complete with tinsel halo.
Thank you so much for joining my Christmas countdown and I wish you and your family a fabulous festive season! xx
About the author:
Kirsty Ferry is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 with the ghostly tale ‘Enchantment’.
Her timeslip novel, ‘Some Veil Did Fall’, a paranormal romance set in Whitby, was published by Choc Lit in Autumn 2014. This was followed by another Choc Lit timeslip, ‘The Girl in the Painting’ in February 2016. ‘The Girl in the Photograph’, published in March 2017, completes the Rossetti Mysteries series. The experience of signing ‘Some Veil Did Fall’ in a quirky bookshop in the midst of Goth Weekend in Whitby, dressed as a recently undead person was one of the highlights of her writing career so far!
Kirsty’s first timeslip novel ‘The Memory of Snow’, commended in the Northern Writers’ Awards, is set on Hadrian’s Wall, with the vampire tale ‘Refuge’ set on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. She has also put together a collection of short stories, a non-fiction collection of articles and writes Gothic Fiction under the pen name Cathryn Ramsay.
Kirsty has had articles and short stories published in Your Cat, Peoples Friend, Ghost Voices, The Weekly News and It’s Fate, and her short stories appear in several anthologies. She was a judge in the Paws ‘n’ Claws ‘Wild and Free’ Children’s Story competition in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and graduated from Northumbria University in December 2016, having achieved a Masters with Distinction in Creative Writing.
You can follow Kirsty, and find out more about her work here: Facebook | Twitter | website | blog
Don’t miss author Kitty Wilson, joining my Christmas Countdown, on Thursday 19th December! xx
