666!
nope, not the devil in me… but a very very lucky number for us.
Secrets was published 6 weeks ago
Secrets has spent 6 weeks in the national Top 10
Secrets is number 6 in this week’s chart!

I’m just back from a week in Spain - and top of my to-do list is to update you with all my news, photos and videos…

In the meantime, follow this link…  It’ll take you to my first short story written for radio, which BBC Radio 4 commissioned.  Many of you will know that I famously HATE writing short stories - give me 140,000 words to play with, any day!
For ‘Fish And Chips‘, I was allowed 2,000 words…and I was told “No sex and no swearing, Ms North”
Listen and enjoy…and please let me know what you think!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ktbf2/Afternoon_Reading_More_Love_in_the_Afternoon_Fish_and_Chips/

stop press!
You’ve done it again, you lot!
Your support and enthusiasm has seen Secrets climb the Top Ten to a fabulous no.5 this week - just 40 copies off the no.4 spot!  Thank you so very much.
I’m just back from a jam-packed but fun and fantastic trip to promote the book - and I’ll be blogging AT LENGTH in the next day or so.  For the time being, sending you my gratitude, I wish you all a great weekend.  Freya x

Thank you Thank you Thank you!
I’m delighted (over-excited) to be able to tell you that… after only 3 days sales, Secrets has gone straight into the national Top 10!
I’m absolutely cockahoop and want to thank you, one and all, for your incredible support….
That’s all for now - I need to run around the garden like a mad thing… x

Well, what better way to spend a glorious sunny Tuesday…than down the local bus depot!
In London, Secrets is being advertised on the sides of 150 double deckers all over the network!  I thought it would a giggle - and a bit of a thrill - to put up one of these impressive ads.  They’re HUGE!
First, you have to stick the visual on a board - and it’s a massive sheet of sticky back plastic!
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Here I am at the CBS warehouse in Walthamstow with the lovely John Steer and his team

Next it was off to the Arriva bus company’s London North depot, at Enfield, with the wonderful Mick who kept the ladder steady and told me what to do!

off with Nokia! Up with Freya!

There are 150 buses across the London network, emblazoned with Secrets!  If you see one - give it a big wave… and let me know!

A hearty thank you to all the great guys at CBS, to everyone at the Arriva depot - and especially to the fab CBS girls - l-r: Catherine, Michelle and Stephanie.

You made my day - you really did!

The Author and Her Assistant
(who tried to charge me 50p)
(we settled on an ice-cream… which turned out to be a damn sight more expensive!)

Well!  What an exhausting, exhilarating day! My 10th novel is now, officially, published - and it was an utter thrill for your author to be out and about, nipping into book shops left, right and centre and seeing Secrets on the shelves!  For me, the excitement of publication simply has not diminished one jot over the years.

Bizarrely, in Selfridges, the sales assistants refused to let me sign copies of Secrets until they’d had a long (rather stern) look at my author pic in the book to verify I was indeed who I claimed to be!
There are currently signed copies at Selfridges, at Waterstones opposite Selfridges and at Borders, Oxford Street.  I’ll be sure to let you know as and when and where I sign more!
Hope you’re enjoying the new video section on the website - and that you’ve found the competition too!
What a day!  So many lovely messages from you lot.  Where would I be without you?  Your seal of approval is more precious, more ‘real’ to me, than a month in the Top 10 (though that’d be rather nice too!)