'Hell's Belles' Competition winners!

We got loads of entries to the competition to win copies of my new Brenda and Effie novel, 'Hell's Belles', which is published by Headline on November the twelfth. Here are my five favourite entries, all of which completed the sentence:

'I want to travel to Whitby to meet Brenda and Effie because...'

The winners will receive their copy of my new book pretty soon!

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Anthony Townsend:
I want to travel to Whitby to meet Brenda and Effie because...
... a holiday just isn't a holiday without them. I long to be alongside them, unmasking those pernicious purveyers of paranormal delinquency that frequent the Yorkshire coast. Or a cuppa and some cake would be nice.

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Jon Bishop:
I want to travel to Whitby to meet Brenda and Effie because...
...I need a quiet break! Starting the day with coffee and cake at ‘The Walrus & Carpenter’, later lunch at ‘The Christmas Hotel’. Teatime supper at ‘Cod Almighty’ ending up in Brenda’s attic drinking spicy tea, and not a single adventure in sight!!

OR WOULD THERE BE??

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Ali McNally:
I want to travel to Whitby to meet Brenda and Effie because...
...If we met we'd be friends. I'd lend Brenda my blackest eyeliner, Effie'd covet my massive boots. We'd grab fish&chips in salt-tangy air with snakebite&blacks to shake our hair under April Skies returning to the B&B where beautiful PVC-clad boys serenade us with Poe and dream of sunrise.

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Ian Potter:
I want to travel to Whitby to meet Brenda and Effie because...
.... at the edge of hard land there's a town made of stories, where old fictions hide among those seduced by their glamour- the hopeful are robbed of their dreams in the harbour front arcade with no need now for hands of glory, Prussian Blue rinsed old dears, fat on john dory, tut at the young skinny monsters with their Jet black eyes, History and Legend battle politely here, Yorkshire Grit and Kensington Gorey.

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Jonathan Dennis:
I want to travel to Whitby to meet Brenda and Effie because...
...it shall have a sky of lightning and glitterballs and the streets are paved with assorted chocolates and ice creams, or did I just forget my meds?

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But well done everyone else as well, and thanks for sending in your emails!

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