Category: #ChocLitSaturday (Weekly Chat)

#ChocLitSaturday | A spooktacular chat about #Halloween + a 5-part fey short story round robin!

Posted Monday, 31 October, 2016 by jorielov , , , , , , , 0 Comments

#ChocLitSaturday banner made by Jorie in Canva.

This weekend, I changed things up a bit as I was going to talk about Jules Wake’s debut ChocLit novel “Talk to Me” – however, noticing how close Saturday hugged itself to Halloween, I decided to take a spooky route instead! I wasn’t sure if it was the holiday – as the UK is starting to whoop up Halloween on a larger scale than in previous years, a nod to their American cousins who have loved the holiday for centuries (or so it would seem!), but this particular Saturday was a bit low in attendance! I knew our numbers would start to fall off a bit towards early to mid November, as that is the time of year where we take a bit of a ‘holiday hiatus’ til after the New Year rings in!

Happily one of the ChocLit authors came round and we had a lovely time chatting about our shared joys of Halloween and why this season of Autumn is such a wicked joy to embrace! Towards the end of the chat, Ms Cornwall dropped in on the festivities and shared in the convo before it was time to close and say ‘good-bye’! Or in this particular case, a spookily ghoulish hope of having a wicked blast over the holiday weekend!

To read our convo in full, you’ll be delight to find the archives are right here for your spooky pleasure! We kicked off the chat talking about the fey (a more proper way of saying ‘fairy’), whilst encompassing why Halloween is such a fun holiday to celebrate & what we love about it the most – of course, this deviated into talking about candy and bakery delights – you know it would happen, it’s the holiday of spooky treats! Laughs. If you find a tweet you love, RT it or respond! Never too late to join in on the fun of #ChocLitSaturday!

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Posted Monday, 31 October, 2016 by jorielov in #ChocLitSaturday (Weekly Chat), Blog Tour Host, British Literature, ChocLitUK, Fairy Tale Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Folklore and Mythology, Gothic Literature, Modern British Literature, Parapsychological Suspense, Supernatural Fiction

Weekly Twitter Chat | #ChocLitSaturday (@ChocLitSaturday): Chat Log 24 Jan 2015

Posted Saturday, 24 January, 2015 by jorielov , , , , , , , 0 Comments

#ChocLitSaturday Chat Banner created by Jorie in Canva

Bookish Topic of Discussion:

Short Stories, Novellas, & ChocLitUK Treats 

How do you fuse character & story to be capture a reader
in Short Story, Novella, & those ChocLit Treats!

I wanted to jump start a conversation about the wicked awesome promotional ‘shorts’ ChocLitUK puts together for their established readership inasmuch as their emerging growth as an Independent publisher of quality relationship-based Romance for readers who want to temper the heat in Romance with a solid grounding of a relationship-driven story! I have also held a special appreciation for writers who can curate a ‘short’ breadth of a story within the shortened expanse of ‘short story’, ‘novella’, and then, there are these one page wonders of ‘ChocLit Treats’ which is an email subscription-based story delivery of romantic loveliness!

You can subscribe to the ChocLit Treats via email send the subject ‘Treat’
to info(at)choc-lit.co(dot)uk. (as mentioned in this tweet)

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Chat Archive | Participant Stats | Replay the Chat

 278 convo tweets exchanged | 3 RSVP (+1 unseen) | 9 logged #Nurphers

{ I found closer to 350-400 tweets }

As of the 28th of January, this chat was replayed 27x!

Special ChocLit’er who contributed “ChocLit Treat” insight: Ms Janet Gover!

Chat Co-Hosted by: Juli @universeinwords | Book Blogger | Freelancer

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Attendees of the Chat:

Ms Liz Harris | @lizharrisauthor | Archive of Posts featured on JLAS

Ms Janet Gover | @janet_gover | Archive of Posts featured on JLAS

Christine Stovell | @chrisstovell | Author Blog (see also Review)

Kate Johnson | @K8JohnsonAuthor | Author Blog (see also Review)

Lisa Kirazian | @kirazian | Author-Director Blog

Julie Stock | @wood_beez48 | Author Blog

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{ Main Conversation Threads }

  • ChocLit Treats | Little ‘glimpses’ of ChocLit Author’s writerly voices!
  • Bringing back the lead male character from “The Untied Kingdom” by Kate Johnson*
  • The Great British Bake-Off series on PBS | Lead-in to a convo about “British words”
  • Strawberry Sweet Vidalia Onions
  • Coorah Creek series by Janet Gover (review of Book 1)
  • Cover Love on behalf of Berni Stevens, cover artist/designer for ChocLitUK
  • Celebrating the new book cover for “Evie Undercover” by Liz Harris

*listed on Jorie’s Next Reads for ChocLitUK Read More

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Posted Saturday, 24 January, 2015 by jorielov in #ChocLitSaturday (Weekly Chat), A Universe in Words, ChocLitUK, Jorie Loves A Story Features