Category: My Services

So proud of my editing client, Leigh Jenkins, for launching her first in the Sabina island series, Sun-Kissed Secret Baby on Audible. It was already available on kindle and paperback, and now this! Leigh is growing by leaps and I am happy for her.

Listen to a sample of Sun-Kissed Secret baby here.

Congrats to Hazel Lynch, one of my favourite editing clients and the author of Senor Fluffy, a Cat’s Tale, for her hilarious new novella.

It’s about a Parisian cat who’s uprooted from his posh home and finds himself coping with the hoi-polloi in New York. Belly-busting funny.

Good job, Hazel!

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Here’s her fabulous video.

Here’s a link to a recent Newsday article about her.

And you can find her here.

COVER BLURB FOR SENOR FLUFFY

“I laughed so hard at the adventures of Señor Fluffy and Madame Du Bois, but even more at Fluffy’s friends: a Jamaican Rastafarian cat called Marley; a parrot called Esmeralda who can cook mean Trini street food; a library-card carrying rat called Reena, and so many more. Tears!”

Roslyn Carrington, writer and editor

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Excerpt

SERIOUSLY, MDB?

I, Señor Fluffy, am mystified that my owner, Madame Du Bois, is hell bent on going to New York City—that concrete jungle, of all places. I cannot wrap my whiskers around the idea of moving from Paris, the city of lights, where I was born, bred, and living a life of privilege—to embracing the unknown.

Here, I have butlers and housekeepers at my beck and call; the top floor for myself, toys, and several varieties of catnip. I’m accustomed to water flown in from the Swiss Alps, fresh cow’s milk, caviar, salmon, paté, and whatever my heart desires. I Señor Fluffy, fare sumptuously every day.

            Now, Madame Du Bois is obscenely rich. To be candid, though, she is extremely gullible. Just about anyone who comes knocking at our door with a sad tale, convoluted story, or dangling a how-to-get-rich-quick scheme is welcome. Who in their right mind tries to “get rich quick” when they’re already rich? I guess what they say is true: The rich always want to get richer. My Madame Du Bois—or MDB as I call her when I am in a bad mood—gives them any amount of money they ask for, without ever signing a contract—or even a piece of stripped bark.

After about 29 hair-brained schemes—all gone wrong, all causing her to leak money like a drippy tap—she decides she needs to go where no one knows of her foolishness and no one knows her name. And of all places, New York City. I’ve been there and done that, and I am not impressed.

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It was a joy to work with you, Hazel!

So proud of one of my favorite clients, Alexis Ashlie, who has just released another sensual and heartwarming series of short romances, the Second Chances series. I’m so proud to have been her editor for this darling collection of books.

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Here’s a snippet of what the series is all about:

The Second Chances Antique Store, where the magic of second chances happens.

My name is Tabitha. I’m a third-generation matchmaker, but my gift lies in romantic second chances. My favorite thing is helping people who were meant to be together, but who lost each other somewhere along the way.
Customers walk into my little wonderland and are enchanted by the hundreds of treasures, each of which has been owned and loved before, and each of which will be loved again.
But my special customers, those who have shown themselves to be honest, brave, self-sacrificing and kind, I single out for a special gift. They each leave with a small, semi-precious stone that will bring the magic home to them. They leave holding their own hearts in the palm of their hands.
This is my magic: my ability to offer these wounded people a second chance at a long-lost love.

Yup, it’s about a magical little store where people go to browse through an endless collection of antiques . . . and always stumble upon something that leads to a second chance at love.

Sounds good? Click here to read more about each book.

Glad to share another one of my client successes with you. Client type: Editing.

Permission to Heal: Violence, Faith & Family is the story of two exceptional people from radically different backgrounds who traversed dangerous ground and overcame great challenges to eventually find a place of wholeness, safety and success. It is the story of how an African-American ex-military man, Anthony, and a Haitian-American woman, Denise, followed separate paths, which led them so unerringly towards each other that their life’s direction could only have been ordained by God.