My friend Rhoda Baxter is celebrating today – the best kind of celebration for an author – a new book. Some of us have a splash of champagne to celebrate ( yep, that’s my favourite too), and today Rhoda is doing a blog splash to mark the launch of Girl in Trouble. She’s asked a…
I am really enjoying writing these posts. It’s great to look back and remember the books that I have enjoyed. I’ve been writing a new book during the last couple of months, so not reading as much as I normally would… but that still means I am reading a book a week. I have however, stayed…
Fine spring evenings are wonderful. And they are even better when you can spend it in one of your favourite places. For me this week that was Cecil Court in the centre of London. Cecil Court is a lovely old street, now a pedestrian way, filled with lovely old shops selling books – old and…
Today is one of those days that authors love. It’s publication day for Wedding Bells by the Creek – the 5th book in the Coorah Creek Series. Publication day is the culmination of months of work. It’s not just the writing. Before the first word is even written, I have to spend time thinking about the…
At last I can show you the cover of the new Coorah Creek book… Isn’t it just beautiful? This novella features all your old favourites in Coorah Creek. Trish and Syd are there. You’ll get to spend more time with Max and Tia who you met in Little Girl Lost. There’s a new face in…
The last couple of months here in London have been cold and wet and grey. My determination to find new authors disappeared with the sun, and it’s been a couple of months of comfort reads for me. I’ve posted the books in the order I read them – not in any sort of preference…. although…
Last night the Romantic Novelists Association held their Romantic Novel of the Year Awards Ceremony. This is a glittering evening of canapés and bubbles in the wonderful Gladstone Library in Whitehall Place. It was particularly special for me this year, because my book Little Girl Lost was shortlisted for the Epic Romantic Novel of the…
This week for me has been about diversity… and the many different ways we express our individuality. The reason – books and knitting. To explain. I was looking forward to the Knitting and Stitching Show at London Olympia – the exhibition space and convention centre in Kensington. It’s huge. I had forgotten just how big it…