Henderson Manor near completion!

So, Henderson Manor, the second installment in the Patrick McLaughlin series is almost complete. I have some proof readers ready and waiting and it WILL be out by February 28th. I will be doing an online launch of Henderson Manor with competitions and giveaways so be on the look out for some great prizes. 

Henderson Manor is going to be full of twists and surprises so I hope that you will enjoy them. I have worked very hard on this book and I am really going to miss writing it when it is done. I already have a third book trying to burst out of me so as soon as Henderson Manor is out I will be working on that. It doesn't have a name yet and it is not going to be paranormal crime, it will fall into the fiction genre. 

I hope that you all have a lovely Christmas and fantastic New Year. Thank you so much all of you for your support and I genuinely hope that you all have a lovely time over the Christmas break. 

Love Emma x

Author event and more...

Hi everyone. I know it has been a while since I have posted anything. But I just wanted to pop on and say that I had my author event at Clydebank library on Thursday 31st October... quite fitting for a paranormal crime novel event to feature on Halloween. However it went fantastically well and I am so overwhelmed with the response and turn out on the night.

I sincerely enjoyed chatting with those who took the time to come out to see me and I had fun answering their questions. I am now focusing on the completion of Henderson Manor and will perhaps do a cover reveal in the very near future. 

If you visit my Facebook page you will get to see some of the video clips from the evening. I hope that if you attended that you enjoyed it and if you didn't then you enjoy the videos and pictures. 

I will be back soon. 

Emma 

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Best Crime Books : Book Review: Beyond Evidence by Emma Clapperton

Best Crime Books : Book Review: Beyond Evidence by Emma Clapperton: My Rating: 4/5 Synopsis: In an alley way of the back streets of Glasgow there lies a decomposing corpse of a slain female  ba...

My 'to read' list is longer than my arm.

My to read list is getting longer and needless to say, I love it. I am currently reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon and it is by far one of the most intriguing books that I have ever read. I will be rewarding this book with a five star review.

The last book that I read is called Whisky from Small Glasses by D. a Meyrick. Set in a Scottish village called Kinloch, this book follows the journey of DCI Jim Daley's work to solve a grim murder in the small town. It is a great Scottish murder mystery with a lot of twists and turns that I did not expect. I also gave this a five star review and was lucky enough to meet the author himself, who is a witty and kind man. I highly recommend that you read this. 

If you would like to follow my reading list and would like to talk about any of the books I have read or will be reading soon, then please feel free to get in touch. I will post some links to the books and my goodreads page below. Enjoy. 

My goodreads page;
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/7190035-emma-clapperton

Whisky from Small Glasses by D. a Meyrick
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whisky-from-Small-Glasses-ebook/dp/B00A05ZF0U/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1371552914&sr=8-1&keywords=whisky+from+small+glasses

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Shadow-Of-Wind/dp/0753820250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371552953&sr=8-1&keywords=shadow+of+the+wind

Other authors you may be interested to look at are; Mandasue Heller, Kimberley Chambers, Casey Kelleher, Mel Sherratt, James Herbert, James Patterson, Joseph Eastwood, Heather Reid, 
Denise Mina, Iain Banks, Stephen Leather and Lynda Renham There are many more however I am sure you'll find them all on the goodreads link. 
Here are just some of the books I have either read or still to read. There are many more on my kindle. 

Happy reading. 

Promotions

Hi everyone. Hope you're all well. I have had some great local promotions going on this last two weeks and have a few 'mini' events coming up. A local restaurant in my home town of Clydebank called, McMonagles Boat has been promoting my book Beyond Evidence and it has become quite popular. I am doing a signing there on Wednesday 24th April at 5:30pm and a question and answer session.
I am also appearing at Waterstones in Glasgow for a crime book group meeting where a group of people will be discussing my book and asking me questions.

I have to say I am so looking forward to these little events, they're a great way of building up a base of readers. I hope to hear some constructive feedback from those who have read my book.

Just a quick post, I hope to write a more detailed after the events I have mentioned.

Radio interview for promotion

On Friday 25th January 2013, I was lucky to be interviewed by my local radio station, Your Radio FM. I was so nervous but I needn't have been, John Scott, the DJ, was so calm and kept me calm. My voice was a little shaky at first and I don't think that it helped that I had the beginning stages of a cold, however it could not have gone better if I wanted it too.
John asked all sorts of questions and the answers just fell out of my mouth and in the end I could have stayed there all day.
I am so grateful for a local radio station to have supported a local author and I couldn't be happier with the outcome. And, the DJ bought a copy of the book in the studio!
If you want to hear the clips, I will receive them via email within the next week so I will post them on here and my other pages soon.

Thanks for your support Your Radio. www.yourradiofm.com

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Do you believe?

Emma L Clapperton – Aspiring Author of Beyond Evidence.

 The paranormal is one of those things that either you believe in, you don’t or you are open minded. I was open minded to begin with, that was until I lost my Grampa to a heart attack in June 2002. After that, I wanted to delve more into the world of spirits, life after death and all the other stuff that comes with it. I totally believe that when you die, you don’t just die but you move on to a higher plane, another level. I suppose I believe this because I am terrified of death itself. The thought of your heart suddenly stopping or your brain haemorrhaging absolutely chills me to the core. Surely you can’t just die, your soul, your personality, your mind. Surely all of your lives work and achievements can’t just disappear with you when you go, if so...what is the point? I attended regular spiritual meetings that raised funds for cancer charities a few years after my Grampa passed away. The mediums were amazing, to say the least. Not only could they tell me about my Grampa and his life, they could tell me things that I had only ever told my partner (Chris) and this is what stretched my mind into thinking that we are not the only life level out there. You may read this and think “Yeah, she’s a nut!” or you may read this and think “I absolutely get you!” but whatever you think, it’s your mind and your opinion and I will never disrespect that. In the last ten years I have thought about the afterlife and wondered what it must be like... Is it just a bunch of souls floating around the sky using memory to project the images of past life, like faces of those who have also passed or a simple pavement to walk along? I work in childcare and one child asked me “How do we get to heaven?” and when I said I didn’t know, his reply was “Maybe we can use the clouds as ladders and climb up.” I liked the sound of this, not because I am religious but because it sounded like a peaceful and happy place to be when your soul makes the transition from human to... whatever it is afterwards. I suppose I will never know until I experience it for myself. Some people I have spoken to are a mix of opinions but I have a very close friend Maxine, who lost her brother to the war in Iraq and she has been told that she has psychic abilities however she is too afraid to learn how to use them. The reason I mention her brother is because she senses that he is with her most of the time. But not only him, she sensed the spirit of a little girl who died when she was a little girl herself. She does not see the spirit now but she does sense the spirit of a girl named Victoria who follows her mum around a lot of the time. When she spoke to her parents about it and described the little girl, it turns out that the friend of her parents had lost a child matching her description. Maxine was a little freaked out by this but has learned to live with it. I had never truly experienced the presence of a spirit until I participated in an over night stay in Edinburgh Vaults in Scotland – an old historical haunting to raise money for PTSD for ex servicemen and soldier’s of today. It was called Niddry Wynd and I have to say that it has been one of the best experiences to date. There were around 30 or 40 people involved and we had a psychic medium and a paranormal investigator and a parapsychologist so that every angle (logical explanations as well as paranormal explanations) could be covered while we investigated the Wynd. I took part in a Ouija board and I was extremely shocked when I experienced shortness of breath and hot sweats... after I challenged the evil spirit of a paedophile to try and see if he could take on someone who would stand up to him. I was pleased of the experience but I did hold my hands up and say “OK” when the medium told me to stop winding him up. Things have happened to me at home that I will admit could be explained rationally, like light bulbs shooting out of the ceiling onto tiled flooring but not smashing, a sudden smell of Old Spice when I leave a room in my flat (Chris does not wear Old Spice), my cats suddenly sitting up and intently watching the hallway of my home... Yeah, I suppose the bulb could have been loose or the scent could be a desire of my imagination and the cats could see a tiny fly that only a cat’s eye would see. But it comforts me to think that it’s my Grampa and I hope that he is here keeping an eye on all of us. It would just be disappointing if I was proven wrong. I hope that day never comes. I try to see a medium whenever I can and I love to read anything paranormal, especially James Herbert, the best selling British Horror Novelist. And now, I love to write about it too. I hope that if your are sceptical, you could give it a chance, just once... you may be pleasantly (or unpleasantly) surprised. I am now a strong believer in the paranormal and life after death but believe me, I am in no hurry to experience it for myself.