Friday Reads -Making Memories at the Cornish Cove by Kim Nash

It’s time for another Friday Reads post and my featured book this week is the heartwarming Making Memories at the Cornish Cove by Kim Nash. I’ve read this and it’s a really lovely story. 🥰 Grab yourself a cuppa, get comfy and let’s get chatting to Kim.

Blurb

It’s never too late…

After five husbands and five broken hearts, Lydia feels like she’s always been chasing something. But now she’s found her purpose, and having moved to Driftwood Bay to spend more time with her daughter Meredith, she’s happier than ever. 

But there’s still life in these old bones yet! With her newfound sense of identity, she’s keen to re-explore the things that made her happy as a younger person. Lydia’s passion was dancing – she used to compete in her younger years, and there’s no place she’s more at home than on the dancefloor. 

So when widower and antiques restorer Martin tells her about a big dance competition, she’s ready and raring to bring more joy into her life. But while making memories with Martin, the more she realises that both of their hearts need restoring too…

Making Memories at the Cornish Cove : https://mybook.to/memoriescornishsocial

Making Memories at the Cornish Cove is the third book in the Cornish Cove series. Here are the three books together.

You can buy the books here:

Hopeful Hearts at the Cornish Cove

Finding Family at the Cornish Cove

Welcome to my blog Kim. I’ve read and loved all your books. As a popular, multi-published author do you have any advice for other writers?

Thanks for inviting me onto your blog again, Karen. Here are seven things I think are important for an author to know or do.

1. Comparison is the thief of joy – there will always be someone who is selling more books, higher in the charts, in more magazines.  It’s not important and looking at what you achieve in this way will absolutely zap your pleasure and your creativity. Don’t spend your life wishing you were the next Stephen King/Marian Keyes/JK Rowling.  They are their own fabulous! You are your own fabulous!  Be unique! Be the next you! 
2. You should celebrate everything! Celebrate the small wins so when you do your edits, when you’ve done your proof read, when you’ve written a synopsis and also celebrate the big things too – celebrate publication day, a new deal etc.  What you’ve achieved is amazing and what most people say they’d love to do but never even try let alone achieve it.
3. This is your journey, not anyone else’s.  Everyone’s journey will be different. We will have all started from a different place and will all end up in a different place.
4. There’s no right or wrong way to do write a book.  There is what works for you. If you want to do a first draft, then go back and edit – do it.  If you want to edit as you go along – do it.  Do it your way and the way that works for you.  But do be open to learning.  Someone may just have a little nugget that will make your life easier. 
5. Enjoy your publication day.  So many authors I know say they get really stressed. That is the day that your book is out in the world and it’s too late to change anything about it.  Don’t stress about it to the extent that you forget to celebrate.  Enjoy your publication day and those celebrations that we talked about earlier.  Mark the occasion in some way that’s right for you whether that’s a launch party, afternoon tea with your best friend, a family get-together. You’ve put another book out in the world and that’s brilliant.
6. Think about what you want.  If you want an agent, that’s fine.  If you want to be Top 100, that’s fine. If you want to be Top 10 that’s also fine. If you won’t be happy until you reach No 1, that’s ok too.  If you want to be published by a traditional publisher, that’s fine.  If you want to see your books on supermarket/bookshop shelves that’s fine.  Hope you are getting my drift. But then align your goals.  So, if you want your books on shelves, then a digital publisher might not be the place to go, because that’s not their key aim.  If you won’t be happy unless you’re published by a traditional publisher, concentrate on that goal.  You will only be happy if you are working towards what you want, rather than making do with something you don’t really want.
7. Find your writing tribe – find the people who will encourage you and teach you to be a better writer, we can always learn.  Find the people that you can brain storm with, talk honestly with and who will support you and cheer you on!  Find those who want you to be the best version of you that you can be.  And find those, who make you laugh so much you pee yourself!

That’s brilliant advice, Kim. Thanks so much for dropping by today to talk to us. Wishing you lots of writing success.

About Kim Nash

Kim Nash is an author of uplifting, funny, heartwarming, romantic, feel-good fiction and has wanted to write books since she was a little girl. The Cornish Cove series is set in the fictional seaside village of Driftwood Bay in Cornwall and is published by Boldwood Books.

She lives in Staffordshire with her son Ollie and English Setter rescue dog Roni, is Digital Publicity Director for publisher Bookouture (a division of Hachette UK) and is a book blogger.

When she’s not working or writing, Kim can be found walking her dog at Cannock Chase, reading, binge-watching box sets on the TV, and dreaming of living by the sea! She’s also quite partial to a spa day and a gin and tonic (not at the same time!) Kim also runs a book club in Staffordshire and organises local and national reader/author events.

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