The complete manuscript of Lady Dixon’s Niece is complete and in the querying stages with publishing houses.
I have been very fortunate to have full manuscript requests and I’m watching this space (fingers and toes crossed that they too will love the story and characters of Lady Dixon’s Niece as much as I do!)
In the meantime I had some fabulous ‘first readers’, as I call them, preview the novel and I am absolutely over the moon with the positive feedback and food for thought that has come out of the experience. My first readers included an Amazon number one best-selling author, another published writer and founder of a wonderful writing group, an avid reader with a degree in English who very much is my target audience, and a head of Policy and Strategy in local government in the UK with a PhD in Science to boot, who has a keen eye for catching typos. I’m extremely grateful for these four readers giving me their time and their insights. It is fantastic to hear each reader’s perspective and which character gave them the warm and fuzzies or the ick!
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Chele Crawley is a teacher, a wife, a mother and writer based in the midlands of Ireland. With a background in journalism and print media, Chele has a nose for a story and likes a good yarn.
Chele is currently working on a romance historical fiction series, Of Social Standing, set during the regency era. She is a member of Inklings writing group based in Mullingar, and regularly has her short stories printed in the local newspaper, Westmeath Examiner. In July 2025, Chele Crawley was double longlisted for the Writers By The Sea Literary Festival competition in both the memoir and short story category. Chele's dystopian short story, Clean Cut, recently was published in the 2025 National Science Week publication, Experiment with Words.
Keen to hone the literary craft, Chele spends equally as much time reading as writing as she believes that reading for a writer is as essential as oxygen. Not surprising, Chele particularly enjoy reading romance historical fiction novels.
Chele has her own blog, https://www.chelecrawley.com and is a member of Writing.ie https://www.writing.ie/member-emerging-writers/chele-crawley/
You can find Chele on social media; Instagram and Facebook, where she regularly posts about her writing journey.
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