CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Country Rush is the first book in the Bookstore Romances series which centers around the characters who work in, or pass through, Highway's Book Emporium, a bookstore in a city very much like Melbourne.   When Taylor helps a tall, dark stranger hide from men pursuing him, she embroils herself in the seedier side of city life. With her mother watching over her seriously injured father in hospital, Taylor has dropped out of university to help pay the bills, taking on a second job to do so. The last thing she needs is a rapid exit from the city and a quick trip to the country, but that's exactly what her tall-dark-and-handsome insists on. With a nasty criminal element on their heels, the pair of them take a fast train and a slow bus out of town, before fleeing to a country property to try to work out how to escape their dilemma. Country Rush is now, or very soon will be, available from Smashwords , Amazon-Kindle, Kobo, AllRomanceEbooks and CreateSpace, as wel...

I laid the last word down on Country Rush - written as Madeleine Torr. Now, it's off for an edit before being released. What's it about? E-Book cover - Country Rush by Madeleine Torr Country Rush is the first book in the Bookstore Romances series which centers around the characters who work in, or pass through, Highway's Book Emporium, a bookstore in a city very much like Melbourne. When Taylor helps a tall, dark stranger hide from men pursuing him, she embroils herself in the seedier side of city life. With her mother watching over her seriously injured father in hospital, Taylor has dropped out of university to help pay the bills, taking on a second job to do so. The last thing she needs is a rapid exit from the city and a quick trip to the country, but that's exactly what her tall-dark-and-handsome insists on. With a nasty criminal element on their heels, the pair of them take a fast train and a slow bus out of town, before fleeing to a country pr...

Occasionally, I remember that I'm no longer 'just' a writer, and then I get going with GIMP and some purchased photography, and create covers for the books being released by C.M. Simpson Publishing. It can be a challenge to schedule it all, but it's fun. Here are the covers I created this month: Print-on-Demand Large Print Print-on-Demand E-book E-book cover Print-on-Demand Print-on-Demand Large Print E-book