Shannon’s Law – Bright Star Of The Zodiac

Dagenham Stallion.

The road to blast off edges nearer to the launch tower. The missile is in sight. I’m pulling myself along in my heat proof suit waiting for that shock-wave of searing gas as the first public eyes fall on my sexually abandoned syntax in Shannon’s Law. There’s gonna be trouble, I just know it. I wake up with sweats. 

Nerves? Me?

Today my Pinterest striptease takes me to Venture Galleries which is a classy writer’s resource site where you can pick up all kinds of insight into the business. I’ve been discussing the use of Pinterest as a writer’s tool. The pinned item is nothing less than a beautifully restored Ford Zodiac from the 1960’s. My father had an old one. I’ve waited many years to pay it literary homage. Shakespeare had his Phoebus’s chariot. I have my my stallion of Dagenham. (A famous British Ford car plant). 



Emma Thinx: The nearer you get to something big, the less you see.

Ring For A Belle – Historic Jewellery on Tour with @RobertsoKing

Gems for an Empress

Today’s Pinterest reveal is a most wonderful piece of jewellery. You can see my full post on Celtic Connections. The site is owned by Melanie Robertson-King. She’s a silver medalist sword dancer from the 1000 Island highland games. That’s a big Wow from me. There’s just gotta be a story to write around that. She also writes fiction where the sword of authenticity enhances the drama. Check out her novel A Shadow in the Past



Emma Thinx: If he means to give you a ring he’ll know your number.






Does my rear look big in this? Let’s #review it with @jennymarston_xo



The first review for Shannon’s Law goes to…. Jenny Marston, a UK uber-blogger and book reviewer.  

I do believe she liked the book…

http://jennyinneverland.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/shannons-law-emma-calin-author-interview/


I like her review A LOT!

Luckily the rear end of my book was bare and still in production so I was able to include an excerpt before the launch-day print run and publication.

She was closely followed by Anneli Purchase from Canada and Petra Rovere from Slovenia.  They enjoyed it too and are also quoted.  Watch this space for their reviews later in my Pinterest Reveal Blog Tour

I can’t thank my early reviewers too much. All feedback is welcome and hard to get. I feel very privileged to have folks out there who have given me their attention above the clamour of this world.

Emma Thinx. A true friend knows your flaws and defends them. 






Amazon GC 30$/£20/€25 and book giveaway – Celebrate SHANNON’S LAW pre-launch blog tour

To celebrate the pre-launch blog tour of Shannon’s Law I have set up a fabulous Rafflecopter Giveaway with a first prize of $30 £20 €25 Amazon Giftcard and of course, paperback and digital copies of Shannon’s Law.  All entries are free – you can gain extra entries by commenting daily on blogs hosting the tour, following on Facebook or Pinterest etc.

To make the party go with a swing, all entrants get a FREE digital copy of “Cop’s Kitchen.” This is the companion cookbook to the romance – so you too can cook the meals and recipes that Shannon enjoys in the story.


The Rafflecopter giveaway runs from 1st of February 2014 and finishes in early March.

Enter here:



a Rafflecopter giveaway


Follow the tour for extra entries:

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…and the launch day online virtual tea party:              28 Feb
https://www.facebook.com/ShannonsLaw   

Roll up. Roll up. It’s all the fun of the fayre.


Emma Thinx: You’re in the soup when the cops throw the cook book at you. 












Avington Park, a true stately home – an inspiration for a #romance

Find out about the real life stately home that inspired the creation of ‘Bloxington Manor’.   My international blog tour continues in the USA on the Writers and Authors Blogspot:
http://writersandauthors.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/how-im-launching-my-book.html


You can also visit and follow my Pinterest Board which assembles all the posts in the tour as they are revealed.

Shannon’s Law comes out on 28th February 2014.

Passion in the Parsnips and Love in the Lettuce – SHANNON’S LAW #romance #novel….. and allotments?

Day one of the “Shannon’s Law Pinterest Reveal Virtual Book Tour” kicks off by getting down and dirty…. in the allotments.  

Read all about it on Nancy Adam’s blog

Or visit my Pinterest Board


The tour runs throughout February until the launch on 28th. At each stop new background info about the characters, locations, food, music etc. from Shannon’s Law will be revealed….

http://fancynancyadams.blogspot.ca/ 31 st Jan
http://jennyinneverland.wordpress.com/ 3rd Feb
http://writersandauthors.blogspot.com 3rd Feb
http://readingintwilight.blogspot.com 3rd Feb
http://www.urbangirlreader.com 5th Feb
http://bookstolightyourfire.blogspot.com 6 Feb
Celtic Connexions 7 Feb
http://everafterromancebookblog.blogspot.com 7 Feb
http://venturegalleries.com/author/emmacalin/ 8th Feb
http://sherylbrowne.com/blog/  9 Feb
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http://reviewsbycacb.blogspot.com/ 10 Feb
http://nightskydarkstar.blogspot.com 10 Feb
http://www.loveahappyending.com/ 11 Feb
http://julielynnhayes.blogspot.com 11 Feb
http://www.allthingsbookie.com/291105966 13 Feb
http://www.longandshortreviews.com 13 Feb
http://chicklitpad.blogspot.co.uk/ 14 Feb
http://crooksonbooks.blogspot.co.uk/ 17 Feb
http://lisahaseltonsreviewsandinterviews.blogspot.com 18 Feb
http://cometbabesbooks.blogspot.co.uk/ 19 Feb
ttp://sharinglinksandwisdom.blogspot.com 19 Feb
http://www.mandybaggot.com/apps/blog/ 20 Feb
http://queenofthenightreviews.blogspot.com// 20 Feb
http://www.cluereview.blogspot.com 21 Feb
http://kimthebookworm.blogspot.co.uk/ 21 Feb
http://patriciasands.wordpress.com/ 23 Feb
http://wordsfromanneli.wordpress.com/ 25 Feb
http://www.harliesbooks.com 27 Feb
http://thesaucyreviewer.wordpress.com/ 27 Feb


Cooking the books with frit-lit

Kitchen scales for a King

Okay – you write a hot sexy action romance novel. So what? These days everyone’s mother is an author. So – you think about what people do on this planet. They work blindly and hopelessly trying to please insatiable faceless bosses. They declare wars and pour hate on the other tribe.They divide and sub divide tribe so there’s always an enemy. They work out how to keep money in their own pocket. They work out how to get it out of the other guy’s pocket and into theirs. If you wanna applaud that endless circus leave now! Still there? Here’s the real deal of ennobling human experience.

There’s nothing better than a nice tart.


They have loving unselfish sex. They hunger, dream and eat. They taste and worship the other.  This is my department of life. Oh yes – they savor and flavor. They concoct and consume. They tempt and create longing. They mystify and reveal. Their appetites come together in bed and in the kitchen. Forget the wars and and greed. Love and eat. Eat and love. Dip in to the juice of the others and their tribes and know the true meaning of life, belief and human joy. Fellow wo-men  – scrape off all the dividing junk food you’ve been fed all your lives. Take off and bake off. Fly and get hot. 

Fuel your passion with a meaty sausage



No decent romance novel should ignore food. I’m not talking here about chocographic flavored encounters of the flesh. This kind of stuff is for the sun bed sugar daddies of sclerotic friterature. I’m talking the food and flavor of sexy love. Whether it’s a rich sausage toad in the hole, silky salmon slither or tantalizing tart, it’s all food for love. 

In my latest book SHANNON’S LAW, boy do they eat and love. The front burner of unleashed passion needs to be fed and fanned. There was only one thing a dedicated novelist and philosopher could do. There’s no formula for love – but there’s a recipe for passion. Nothing but an accompanying cook book would do. If those lovers you’re following can taste it, so can you. Whether it’s a heart revealed raw in Venice or a canteen meal in a south London police station, the food of love in SHANNON’S LAW is now a sister book. It’s a munchin’ of luncheon, its an eye full of trifle it’s a stuffed heart palpitating with love. It’s COP’S KITCHEN.


Every erotic moment of sexy passion shared is in the novel. Every morsel of tender taste is in the cook book. It’s more than love. It’s the love of love itself expressed in perfume, aroma and appetite. It’s the front line and burner of desire.

If you want to check out how to get the absolute fuel of total world saving love, follow Shannon’s Law on Facebook or Pinterest or join my mailing list and get a free copy of Cop’s Kitchen. (shipping after 28th Feb).



Emma thinx: Books are hotter than any fire that can burn them.

Shannon’s Law: New Emma Calin Romance

Gurus differ about titles. Some say you should have one right from the start. Rival gurus think it should be designed as part of the cover. I can’t recall the names of any books by gurus. My new novel is called “Shannon’s Law”. It was born at a healthy weight of 94,000 words and is so much alive it even has its own Facebook  page for you to “like”: https://www.facebook.com/ShannonsLaw

Now, during the long incubation period, I had to make a rather serious decision. A wonderful publisher actually wanted it. This is what I had looked for all my life. At last I could become a member of the Romantic Novelists Association. So, perversely,  I turned them down. Professional acceptance will have to wait. The industry has changed so much and since I published “Knockout” I have learned a lot. I’ve even set up Gallo-Romano Media, my own publishing business that now handles third party books.  With breathtaking arrogance I have decided to go it alone again. “Knockout” was always intended as the first in a series of hardcore modern police romance stories. The flavour is very much girl cop on top. They’re tough but not rough. There’s handbags, toe-rags, sandbags and glad rags. It’s Passion Patrol.

A view with a room (or two)

If you check out the Facebook page you’ll find a cool competition  http://tinyurl.com/qy6rxvp to win a signed pre-release printed copy or tickets to the live launch event in the UK. Yes – a live stately home launch. I can’t reveal the story but here is a full frontal view of our launch venue, complete with hard upright pillars at the entrance. Much of the action takes place here. 

I am a woman with a plan. The countdown has begun. The Facebook page is up. The cover reveal will be on 6th January 2014. A Pinterest board has developed in parallel with the book, featuring nearly everything from venue to menu. Teaser silhouettes will proceed a Pinterest reveal International blog tour. The book will launch on February 28th  with a virtual tea party. The live launch event will be on 2nd March 2014. Only Nostradamus can take us beyond that date. 

Emma Thinx: Pillar talk -it’s what architects do in bed.







A Fanfare for the launch of The Love In A Hopeless Place Collection

Why blow your own trumpet if you can blow your own trombone? On Sunday I had the very chance to get up there and show the world my glissando. The clip shows me performing the Muppet Theme.

The trombone fanfare announces the launch of my 


There are five stories included in this ‘boxed set’. The theme is that of life and love among folk at the poorer end of society. My impression has often been that working class life is less examined by fiction than higher income groups. The more beautiful and educated are more appealing. Suave heroes and elegant heroines tread the world in pursuit of high ambitions. All the while there’s a guy pushing a broom and a woman packing boxes in a warehouse. Sadly these days the term “working class” often means those with no work or those clinging to marginal insecure jobs. There are the illegal immigrants who pick fruit, prepare meat, prop up the sex industry and rinse the rice for our gourmet restaurant dinners.

In my life I have been drawn to these situations. Seeking to be a writer I have chosen not to have a career path but to work in food processing plants, warehouses and as a bus driver. There is passion, colour and humour in these places. These stories represent what I feel has been the best of my experience. 

Here are just a couple of words about each title.

Sub Prime – This has been a successful prize winning piece for me. A guy down on his luck gets some casual work and encounters those far less fortunate. He has to examine his strength of character and is never the same again.

The Chosen – Two guys at the margins of society have very different ambitions. One is a cynical survivor. The other is a believer in the dream of wealth and success. They unite in a desperate throw of the dice. It’s about luck, winners and losers.

Escape To Love – A woman faces a future bringing up her handicapped child alone. In her past lies an abusive relationship from which she has escaped. When her child is rescued by a man on the run, she has the chance of a new life and love. Can she trust her own judgement? Could a new lover entirely trust her?

Angela – This is a true short story. What we believe in often affects what we see or how we interpret what we have experienced. A chauffeur encounters an enigmatic client at a point of indecision in his life.

Love In A Hopeless Place – A working class woman has settled into a resigned acceptance of the second half of her life. Suddenly she learns something about herself and of her true possibilities. Change can often engender passion and violenceA chance moment brings everything down around her and brings even further surprises.


The Love in a Hopeless Place Collection is available on Amazon Worldwide.


And of course, there is a competition. All you have to do is spot the differences…

1)How many differences are there between the first and second pictures?
2) Who is the elegant sophisticated glamour model posing in the third picture?

Enter your answers here to win your own copy of the collection and a customised iphone 5 case.



Hear some more tunes from the band as the  ‘Blowing My Own Trombone Blog Tour Continues’….

20th July Sheryl Browne
21st July Nicky Wells
23rd July Miriam Wakerly
26th July Patricia Sands