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Ellen Dean

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About Me

Following on from my medical career
I was an entrepreneur for about 15 yrs.
having established two businesses,
one an award winning company....
now, I am an author.
My debut novel,
Beautiful Strangers
- A BEST SELLER -
ISBN 9781425954468,
(written under the pseudonym of Ellen Dean)
published August 2006 was nominated for
a 2007 Golden Crown Literary Award-
Romance Category.
Reader feedback confirms my gut feeling
that it will make a cracking film
or television drama.
I am currently working on the second book
of what is going to be a trilogy.
My website is:
http://www.ellendean.co.uk
You can now order your signed copy of Beautiful Strangers from my website using Paypal.
Also, for a limited period, you can download 48 chapters of Beautiful Strangers in pdf from my website.
For those of you who have read my book,
and are familiar with Hyacinth,
just for fun she has her own myspace site now at:
www.myspace.com/hyacinthdickinson
You can keep up with her there.
I played Ellen Dean (hence my choice of pseudonym)
in The Masham Players production
of Wuthering Heights a couple of years ago.
I have also played Baroness Hardup in Cinderella,
which was great fun and raised
lots of money for charity
and the groupie Columbia in a
'spoof version' of
Rocky Horror.
I "Timewarp" with the best of them.

My Interests

My interests are
complementary therapies,
golf,
photography and amateur dramatics.
I like to have fun with friends,
the video of us
'The Usual Suspects'
on stage performing to
Abba's Waterloo
whilst raising money
for charity.
(see our video)


I'd like to meet:



Abba 2 Bjorn Belief at Settle



Intothebleach live at Glusburn
www.ellendean.co.uk

Music:

My good friend,
Lorraine King
who has a fabulous voice,
you must buy her new album
'Songs from the Celtic Land of Wales',
she also sings comedy songs brilliantly.
I like Opera Babes,
Trinity,
Pussy Cat Dolls,
Sam Fox,
Shania Twain,
Madonna,
Blondie,
Rod Stewart,
Queen,
Meatloaf,
Abba,
Abba 2 Bjorn Belief,
Suzi Quatro
and of course Intothebleach.

Movies:


I just love Rocky Horror,
it's brilliant.

Television:

Madonna Beautiful Stranger Abba Beware

Books:

My favourite,
although I am biased is
BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS
which I am proud to say,
"is my own recently published novel".
Review Velvet mag no. 12:05/07
This is a great read.
The characters are seductive.
Prepare to be seduced,
angered and generally stimulated
by this novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK...
When beautiful and talented
young surgeon Beth McConnell
joins David Dickinson's surgical team
in a Newcastle hospital
her life is changed forever.
David's rich-bitch wife Hyacinth,
gynaecologist,
supreme sailor,
total control freak
and adrenalin junky,
is smitten by Beth
and desperately wants to
initiate her into her
inner circle of personal girlfriends.
So she plans an intimate weekend
for them both in London,
the lovely Lou Scott on the train.
Rich and beautiful women
are drawn together
in a twisting tale
of jealousy, deceit,
blackmail, magic,
lesbian love and longing.
'HYACINTH'
one of the main characters
from my book
Beautiful Strangers
due to popular demand
now has her own myspace site.
Go to:
www.myspace.com/hyacinthdickinson
Or click on the image
in my Top Friends list.
There you can read her BLOG
and see where she goes,
what she does and who she meets
on her very own page.
She is always on the trail
of Beth of course,
but will she ever catch her?
And 'The Secret' by Rhonda Byrne
an excellent book.

My Blog

The Cats Away

It's been a week of drama for Sat Nav and I. First the Magic of the Musicals, and then our local amateur dramatic society Masham Players were performing their autumn production of 'The Cat's Away' on ...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:36:00 PST

The Magic of the Musicals in Concert

Last night Sat Nav and I were excited.We were braving the traffic and heading up the A1 again, in the dark ugh, en route for Darlington to see The Magic of the Musicals Show at the Civic Theatre. For ...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:08:00 PST

My friend Beryls Book Launch

Last night Sat Nav and I were invited to our friend Beryl Hankin's book launch at the Kings Head hotel in Darlington. The book is called 'That Darlington Way' and if you want to know all about Darling...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:49:00 PST

Radio Show today...

I feel like road runner up and down the A1...but I'm not complaining, I'm having a great time. In fact I'm beginning to wonder if this the life of a celebrity lol!!! (if it is then I need a chauffeur ...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:36:00 PST

Dreams...

I keep a dream diary and have done for the last few years...as my dreams tend to come true (pre-cognitive), and when they do I am able to match the dream up with my diary entry. They also say we visit...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:06:00 PST

Im in the newspaper today!

I am thrilled to report that the Darlington& Stockton Times newspaper has included an article about my attendance at YLAF, but not only that - they have talked about Hyacinth having her own myspac...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:02:00 PST

A night at the Theatre

So we live in the country...out in the sticks actually...but on Tuesday night The North Country Theatre Company brought their traveling production of 'The Electrical Wizard of the North' devised and s...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:05:00 PST

Radio Show and birthday

Today is my friend Anita's birthday so I decided to surprise her by dropping in with her pressie while she was on air doing her local radio show this morning. Sat Nav and I braved the traffic to head ...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:50:00 PST

YLAF

A great start to YLAF on Friday night. Sat Nav and I attended the welcome reception at the Holiday Inn York. Thank you Crin and your team for such a warm welcome.We met some of the other authors and a...
Posted by Ellen Dean on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:14:00 PST

Have you seen Hyacinth?

Help! Has anyone seen Hyacinth?...she seems to have gone AWOL! It seems she has a problem with me making an exhibition of myself because it takes away from her limelight. Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeease............
Posted by Ellen Dean on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:11:00 PST