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Continue reading →: From Brief to Bag: My Dog Food Packaging Illustration ProcessA behind-the-scenes look at how I created a dog food packaging illustration—from research and rough sketches to traditional colouring, digitising, and layout.
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Continue reading →: A New Creative Direction for The Book Bump: Writing, Art & Indie Author LifeThe Book Bump is evolving! As my creative life expands into thriller writing, self-publishing, illustration, and book talk, this blog is growing with me. Here’s what’s changing, what’s staying, and what to expect in the months ahead.
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Continue reading →: Why I Write Psychological ThrillersDiscover why I love writing psychological thrillers: exploring the human mind, moral tension, and the thrill of not knowing who to trust.
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Continue reading →: Why I Self-Published My Debut Psychological ThrillerFor years, I dreamed of seeing my name on a book spine in a bookstore. I thought that dream had to begin with finding an agent, signing a deal, and following the traditional path. But when I finally reached the crossroads between waiting and doing, I realised something important: there…
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Continue reading →: Book Review – It Ends with Us“Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.”
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Continue reading →: Book Review – Moscow BabylonRoman Lambert is a British expat living in Moscow in the 1990s. He enjoys the post-Soviet decadence until he meets Sonia, a tragically beautiful woman. Their relationship blooms until Roman commits a heinous crime—one for which his beloved Sonia will never forgive him.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – The Jigsaw ManBody parts start turning up on the banks of the River Thames. The murders have all the hallmarks of The Jigsaw Killer, except he is serving a life sentence. It would seem DI Anjelica Henley has a copycat killer on her hands.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – VerityStruggling writer Lowen gets the deal of a lifetime when the husband of famous author Verity Crawford hires her to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife cannot finish.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – IcebreakerAnastasia Allen, a competitive figure skater looking to secure a spot on Team US, and Nate Hawkins, the hockey team captain, must put aside their difference when they are forced to share a rink.
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Continue reading →: Book Review – HomeTen years ago, two schoolboys are kidnapped from their family home. The kidnappers demand a ransom but go silent. No trace of the boys is ever found until, one day, one of the two boys turns up in London. What does he remember from that tragic day? What does he…
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I’m Charlotte
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