Charming. Moving. Uplifting

If you're a first-time author, then somehow you have to try and dig up some quotes from a celebrity or a journalist to stick on the front cover.

These quotes can really help sell a book - and they are incredibly difficult to come by.

You plead, you grovel, you weasel, and at the end of it all, you might just get a quote from your local paper. If you're lucky.

Well I've been grovelling for well over a month, and, with just two days to go, I still didn't have a word to put on the front cover.

And then ... nothing short of an absolute miracle. I got the quote: "Charming. Moving. Uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?"

And from not a bad paper either ... The Wall Street Journal.