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Newsletter number one
Feb. 6th, 2010 03:44 pmWelcome to the inaugural Charlie Cochrane newsletter, (available directly by e-mail if you sign up at [email protected]). I promise these will be high on information and low on “Squee, squee, look at me”. Please let me know if there’s anything you’d like included that I haven’t put in (and vice versa).
Coming up:
14th February
Sees the release of I Do Two from MLR. In support of Lambda Legal, I Do Two is an anthology of short stories featuring such great authors as Alex Beecroft, Neil Placky and Rick Reed. My story, The Uneven Chance, has a blurb stolen straight from Jane Austen, “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
'A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a
civil partner'.
“That’s not quite what the sublime Miss Austen wrote”, Roger Nicholson reflected, although the girl did seem fairly enlightened. Perhaps if she’d lived two hundred years later she might have come up with a ‘Pride and Prejudice’ de nos jours where Mr D’Arcy would encounter a handsome young man full of spirit if lacking in breeding. Roger couldn’t work out what was more unlikely; a novel of the quality of Austen’s becoming a classic even though it dealt with the love that still encountered difficulties with speaking its name, or meeting his own equivalent of Fitzwilliam D’Arcy.
16th February
Is e-book release day for Lessons in Seduction, book 6 of the Cambridge Fellows Mysteries series.
Poor old Orlando has to go undercover as a dancing partner at a posh hotel. Jonty, of course, has no sympathy for him:
Jonty almost danced all the way back up the Madingley Road, full of the prospect of the seaside, dancing and high society.
“Of course, you’ll love every moment of this investigation.” Orlando took a swipe at a branch which had dared to get in his way.
“Absolutely. And so will you. Don’t pretend you won’t be thrilled to have a murder to solve. You like them as much as your beloved mathematical puzzles.” Jonty’s broad, handsome grin made him look like a boy at Christmas, bouncing with excitement at the prospect of the weeks ahead.
“I suppose so. Only…”
“Yes?”
“I was just wondering—” Orlando felt himself colour, not just with annoyance, “—what a gigolo actually does.”
“I love Miss Peters more than any other woman to whom I’m not related, but I could cheerfully have killed her today, coming in and saying that. In front of the bursar and all. You will *not* be a gigolo.” Jonty sighed. “No one expects you to be anything more than a professional dancing partner at the hotel.”
Back catalogue:
The first I Do anthology came out just over a year ago in e-book and print.
It’s still raising money for Lambda Legal and features stories from Erastes, Clare London and Lee Rowan among others. I chipped in with The Roaming Heart, a short about two leading lights of the black and white cinema who don’t live out their private lives quite like the gossip columns suggest.
Inspiration:
A lovely article about some of the ‘real’ Jontys and Orlandos, here.
Coming up:
14th February
Sees the release of I Do Two from MLR. In support of Lambda Legal, I Do Two is an anthology of short stories featuring such great authors as Alex Beecroft, Neil Placky and Rick Reed. My story, The Uneven Chance, has a blurb stolen straight from Jane Austen, “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
'A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a
civil partner'.
“That’s not quite what the sublime Miss Austen wrote”, Roger Nicholson reflected, although the girl did seem fairly enlightened. Perhaps if she’d lived two hundred years later she might have come up with a ‘Pride and Prejudice’ de nos jours where Mr D’Arcy would encounter a handsome young man full of spirit if lacking in breeding. Roger couldn’t work out what was more unlikely; a novel of the quality of Austen’s becoming a classic even though it dealt with the love that still encountered difficulties with speaking its name, or meeting his own equivalent of Fitzwilliam D’Arcy.
16th February
Is e-book release day for Lessons in Seduction, book 6 of the Cambridge Fellows Mysteries series.
Poor old Orlando has to go undercover as a dancing partner at a posh hotel. Jonty, of course, has no sympathy for him:
Jonty almost danced all the way back up the Madingley Road, full of the prospect of the seaside, dancing and high society.
“Of course, you’ll love every moment of this investigation.” Orlando took a swipe at a branch which had dared to get in his way.
“Absolutely. And so will you. Don’t pretend you won’t be thrilled to have a murder to solve. You like them as much as your beloved mathematical puzzles.” Jonty’s broad, handsome grin made him look like a boy at Christmas, bouncing with excitement at the prospect of the weeks ahead.
“I suppose so. Only…”
“Yes?”
“I was just wondering—” Orlando felt himself colour, not just with annoyance, “—what a gigolo actually does.”
“I love Miss Peters more than any other woman to whom I’m not related, but I could cheerfully have killed her today, coming in and saying that. In front of the bursar and all. You will *not* be a gigolo.” Jonty sighed. “No one expects you to be anything more than a professional dancing partner at the hotel.”
Back catalogue:
The first I Do anthology came out just over a year ago in e-book and print.
It’s still raising money for Lambda Legal and features stories from Erastes, Clare London and Lee Rowan among others. I chipped in with The Roaming Heart, a short about two leading lights of the black and white cinema who don’t live out their private lives quite like the gossip columns suggest.
Inspiration:
A lovely article about some of the ‘real’ Jontys and Orlandos, here.
