Dear Tilly
Listen up! I know you have this grand
delusion that you’re going to be a famous singer but, really, nobody wants to
hear it. You think you open your mouth
and you sound like Mary Poppins. The reality is that you crack mirrors, dogs
howl and small children flee. Ditch the
warbling.
Have you thought about writing books? You
love reading, right? You love wordplay and humour? You love happy ever afters?
Sometimes you get grumpy that the story you’re engrossed in doesn’t turn out
the way you want it to? Well, hold the phone, because if you’d written it, it
would have been exactly the ending you wanted to see. See?
I won’t bull you; it’s going to be tough.
Possibly tougher than one of your Sunday joints. Almost certainly tougher and
less financially rewarding than singing (at least, other people’s singing). You
will have to hold down about fifteen jobs for a while. You will have to work
late into the night and get up at the crack of dawn to start all over again the
next day. You will sit in darkened rooms on the sunniest days of the year when
everyone else is out leaping in fountains and eating ice-cream because you have
a deadline. At times your kids will think you’ve left home when you’ve actually
been holed up in the loft for three days crying over a plot that won’t work. There
will be times when you want to throw the laptop from the nearest window, times
when your characters will misbehave, times when it seems that nobody wants to
buy the stories you’re peddling and when they do they only have bad things to
say about them. But one day, one
glorious, heavenly-choirs-massing-in-the-clouds day, someone will love what you
do. Enough to hand you a contract and take you under their wing to nurture what
you grain of talent you have. One day, you’ll publish that book.
That’s when the adventure really
begins. And in the words of a wise old(ish)
Irishman: Life is a rollercoaster, you
just gotta ride it.
That’s my advice. What you choose to do
with it is up to you.
Love from Tilly xxx
The Man Who Can’t be Moved by Tilly
Tennant
Fledgling
journalist Ellie Newton is keen to prove herself when she lands a hard-won job
at the Millrise Echo. So when
reports come in of a man camped on the corner of a local street, refusing to
move until the girl who has jilted him takes him back, Ellie is on a mission to
get the scoop.
She arrives to
meet Ben Kelly, a man she is instantly attracted to. But she has a job to do
and an incredible story to write and has soon pledged to help him win back the
girl of his dreams. With Ellie’s help,
Ben’s plight captures the hearts and imaginations of the public. And when a TV
film crew appears to make a feature on the most romantic gesture the town of
Millrise has ever seen, Ellie’s mission gets its happy ending...
But while Ellie
has been busy fixing the lives of her wayward parents, providing shoulders for
heartbroken friends to cry on, and worrying about her terminally-ill aunt, she
hasn’t noticed that she has also been falling quietly in love – with the very
man she has now ensured is hopelessly out of her reach
Ellie must
choose between doing the right thing, and the thing that feels right. And
whatever choice she makes, someone will get their heart broken.
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ABOUT TILLY TENNANT
Tilly
Tennant was born in Dorset, the oldest of four children, but now lives in
Staffordshire with a family of her own. After years of dismal and disastrous
jobs, including paper plate stacking, shop girl, newspaper promotions and
waitressing (she never could carry a bowl of soup without spilling a bit), she
decided to indulge her passion for the written word by embarking on a degree in
English and creative writing, graduating in 2009 with first class honours. She
wrote her first novel in 2007 during her first summer break at university and
has not stopped writing since. She also works as a freelance fiction editor,
and considers herself very lucky that this enables her to read many wonderful
books before the rest of the world gets them.
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