Guest author, Stevie Turner has very kindly written a good introduction to herself and her writing so I’ll hand straight over.
Stevie Turner is a British author who has been writing for about two years now, in between working as a medical secretary. In this time she has written 5 books which mainly focus on the darker side of relationships, but are usually sprinkled with quite a bit of humour too.
She has a website http://www.stevie-turner-author.co.uk/ with details of all her books and sample chapters for reading. The website also has details of her book club, and also has interesting interviews with other authors. Her Amazon author page http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stevie-Turner/e/B00AV7YOTU/ and AuthorsDen page http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=183378 along with her Smashwords author page https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/StevieTurner have links to all her works for sale.
One of her books ‘A House Without Windows’ has achieved a Readers’ Favorite 5 star award https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/31349 and at one point was in the top 100 bestsellers in the Amazon Fiction/Crime/Kidnapping section.

Excerpt
CHAPTER 1 of A House Without Windows, by Stevie Turner
Copyright Stevie Turner 2014
Mummy wonders if it will be Christmas soon, but I don’t know what she means. She says that when she was a little girl she would get lots of presents on Christmas Day, and there would be a big tree in her house with lots of twinkling fairy lights on the branches and shiny baubles that she could see her reflection in. I’ve never seen a tree, so Mummy drew one for me in my colouring book and showed me. I don’t understand why there was a tree in her house.
My name is Amy, and Mummy thinks I could be seven, eight or nine years old because my big front teeth are growing in. I have long blonde hair like Mummy that I can sit on. Mummy puts it in a plait and she showed me how to plait hers, and she taught me how to read. She says I can read and write really well, and I like writing stories. I write everything down in a secret diary and keep it under the mattress. Mummy writes things down too. The Man brings us paper, pencils, exercise books, and colouring books for me, but he doesn’t speak much. Mummy tells me to keep out of his way, so I run to the toilet when he comes. Sometimes he finds me and smiles, and says that I’m getting a big girl. I don’t like him. He’s nearly as tall as the ceiling and he has hair all over his face. Mummy told me his name is Edwin, but I don’t like him so I call him The Man.
Our house is small and dark. There’s a light bulb hanging from the ceiling that stays on all the time, even when we go to sleep. It’s too dark without the light on, and I get frightened. I get in bed with Mummy because there’s nowhere else to sleep. When I lay in bed I can see all the rest of the house except the toilet and sink, which is around a little corner and out of the way. All the walls are greenish-grey, and Mummy says they’re made out of concrete. When I touch them they’re cold.
Mummy sticks my pictures on the walls with something called Blu-tack, and she says they brighten things up a bit. My best picture is the one of Prince, a ginger cat that sometimes follows behind The Man when he brings our food. I’m allowed to stroke Prince until he goes back out, but then Mummy says I have to wash my hands before I eat anything.
Last week The Man brought me a reading book. I’d never had a reading book before. He said I had to look after it because he’d kept it safe for years since he was a little boy. It’s got thick pages, large letters, and a sort of yellowy cardboard cover. I’ve started to read it. A lady called Enid Blyton wrote it, and it’s called The Island of Adventure. It begins where a boy called Philip who loves animals is at some sort of summer school and is bored as he sits under a tree doing something called algebra (I asked Mummy what algebra is, and she said it’s a different kind of maths). He hears a strange voice telling him to blow his nose and wipe his feet. It turns out the voice comes from a parrot sitting in a tree nearby, and he follows it as it flies off down the hillside back towards his school. That’s the only bit I’ve read so far.
I asked Mummy what a parrot is, and why I can’t sit under a tree. She told me a parrot is a colourful bird that flies around in hot countries, but that some people in this country keep them in cages as pets. I think that’s cruel. If I had a parrot I’d let it fly about.
I had to ask her again why I can’t sit under a tree. Mummy sighed and told me that trees grew outside, and we weren’t allowed to go outside. When I asked her why, she said that The Man doesn’t want us to.
It’s boring in our house. I do maths with Mummy like Philip had to do at school. I know how to add up lots of numbers in my head and come up with the right answer, and Mummy says not many eight year olds can do that. She always asks me to spell words and read even longer words. She helps me with the ones I can’t do, because she’s a doctor and she’s cleverer than me. When my felt tips run out I have to wait for The Man to bring more. There’s no parrots flying around to look at, and I want to sit under a tree. One day I will get outside, but I’m not sure yet how I’ll go about doing it.
Stevie is also active on the following social media sites:
WordPress: http://steviet3.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @StevieTurner6
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stevie-Turner/432183066899400?ref_type=bookmark
Stevie is working on another suspense story, which will be published at the end of the year.
Thank you Stevie for that rather disturbing excerpt. If you were aiming to intrigue and unsettle you succeeded with me anyway.