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Auriel Roe
- Mar 15, 2019
- 4 min
An Interview Avec Moi!
As part of the blog tour, I was interviewed by New Zealand author and book blogger Val Prozorova... 1. Congratulations on the release of Swine! This is your second book - was it less stressful going through the process with this one than it was with Blindefellows, or just as nerve-wrecking? It was quite a cathartic book to write. I've been working in international schools for the bulk of my teaching career so I was brimming with weird stuff - place a group of western teacher
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Auriel Roe
- Mar 12, 2019
- 2 min
Latest reviews by Fabian and Leah...
Today's review is from Fabian who is one of the top 100 reviewers on Goodreads, the world's largest book review site! Many warnings are skipped merrily by our main man Tristram Randolph, a Lucky Jim-like figure who stands as figurehead (headmaster) of a new school. He is compiling a staff for his boarding school outside of England, in the ficitional land of Diskebapisbad. Logos, emblems are all comically wrong, dirty anagrams placed upon the uniforms; the staff all represent
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Auriel Roe
- Mar 10, 2019
- 1 min
Review #2... Let The Swine Go Forth
Review #2/10 for Let The Swine Go Forth on this month's blog tour is kindly provided by Leah of Reflections of a Reader... I was delighted when author Auriel Roe approached me about reviewing her second novel Let The Swine Go Forth. A Blindefellows Chronicle was published last year and I adored that. I wondered what could possibly follow that up and I wasn't quite prepared for what did... Let The Swine Go Forth contains the signature melding of ideas and thoughts that made me
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Auriel Roe
- Mar 9, 2019
- 2 min
Let The Blog Tour Commence!
I was completely new to the phrase "Blog Tour" when my first novel was published two years ago and wondered if it involved an air guitar. It doesn't. For novices such as I was, it is a week or so of very nice literary bloggers publishing a review every day on your new book which help it to reach a few thousand readers. In addition to the reviews appearing on their websites, they're also kind enough to paste them to the biggest online book review site, Goodreads. "It's all
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