Welcome to my new pixel of metaspace. I’m Marianne Delacourt alter ego of SF writer Marianne de Pierres. Marianne Delacourt writes contemporary humorous crime/romance with a paranormal flavour. Stories that are fast, funny, furious – and definitely pull no punches.
The Tara Sharp series is published by Allen and Unwin.
Tara Sharp drives a car modelled on this Monaro:
However, this is her dream car:
One of my intrepid ‘de-facto publicists’ is on the job in Perth and has convinced yet another book club that they should read Sharp Shooter. Yay for Mrs Hendo! Word mouth is the most effective and coveted form of publicity. Nothing much better than it really. So if you’ve enjoyed Tara Sharp, please tell someone about it. Book 2 is on its waaay… promise.
Week 7 is up. I was planning to finish the story last week but things have kinda grown a little, so it will run for another week or so. Very happy to get feedback on it though tarasharp@live.com.
No signing this weekend. But Southport Park coming up the following week.
Indooroopilly was fun as a few people dropped by to say hello. Belinda-darl brought in her chainmail jewellry for me to have a look at, and we’re concocting a plan to use it (thanks for the fruit clusters, Belinda – I ate them all! My turn to bring them next time).
Sold A&R’s last copy of Sharp Shooter, so many thanks to Cat for having us. Working today, so better get back to it.
Tara’s whodunnit week 6# is now up in the Fully Dead section in the right hand menu. A little bit late as week 7# has started, but the weekend was overrun with an 18th birthday party and sport. Enjoy!
This Saturday (21st) 11am to 1pm. I missed the last signing there, as I was sick, so am looking forward to it. Kylie Chan will also be coming.
And if you haven’t become a fan of Tara Sharp and Parrish Plessis on Facebook – then you should!
North Lakes signing was pretty quiet, though I got to have a good catch up with KC. A few more signings to go before xmas and then I’ll have a break until the New Year. It’s been great to get out into the shopping centres and meet some of the lovely booksellers.
I’ll be blogging on ’switching genres’ at Fleur McDonald’s on December 1st. Fleur has some great guests coming up on her blog, so you should check it out.
And amazingly, it’s Friday again. Tara’s post’s will be up in the Fully Dead section later today. Next week is the end of the first whodunnit. See if you can solve the crime before Tara.
You can download the media release for Sharp Shooter and some good quality pics from this Allen and Unwin page - in essence a media kit. And while you’re there, order a copy for a friend for xmas. It’s a perfect fit for a (lumpy) xmas stocking.
Kylie Chan and I will be at A&R North Lakes on Saturday. Just a warning that there’ll only copies of the Sentients of Orion series (including the new one Mirror Space) on sale. If anyone wants to bring their Sharp Shooter copy in to be signed though, I’ll be happy to do that.
So after the first cover concept, we moved on to this one. I loved this as well, but the ‘Tara’ still wasn’t right.
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