To celebrate the sequel to the wonderful Mistress of the Storm, author Melanie Welsh set sail on a blog tour last week to talk about Heart of Stone.

Melanie’s first stop was Nayu’s Reading Corner where she wrote about how her knowledge of sailing the sea inspired her writing. To find out if Melanie can actually sail visit the blog post here:  http://nayusreadingcorner.blogspot.com/2012/01/heart-of-stone-blog-tour-review-plus.html

Next stop was at Madhouse Family Reviews where Melanie gave 6 very good reasons why Verity deserves to be a lead character (my personal favourite, No. 1 She’s a bit dumpy)  http://madhousefamilyreviews.blogspot.com/2012/01/heart-of-stone-blog-tour-guest-post.html

Day three on the tour and Melanie stopped off at Fluttering Butterflies blog to discuss if happy endings are important to a story. To find out what she thinks read  http://www.flutteringbutterflies.com/2012/01/blog-tour-heart-of-stone-by-ml-welsh.html

Read 2 Review asked Melanie how her characters find their voice and she describes how one of my favourite characters in the book, Henry, just popped into her head, fully formed at the very start!  http://read2review.com/2012/01/12/how-did-your-chatacters-find-their-voice-a-guest-post-by-m-l-welsh/

Melanie’s final visit was to the Girls without a Bookshelf  blog where she discusses how to choose the setting for a story. One of the things people have loved about Mistress of the Storm and Heart of Stone is the strong sense of place you get when reading them. You can feel the wind whipping your hair and taste the salt from the sea – that is a true skill! http://withoutabookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/heart-of-stone-blog-tour-setting.html 

If you’d like to read more about Verity and what influenced Melanie you can visit her website: www.veritygallant.co.uk

Just want to say thank you for asking me to host on this tour. It was a really fun event and I hope Melanie enjoyed it too =)

Posted on January 16th, 2012 at 10:21 pm by Kate