Can you imagine writing with the world’s biggest-selling novelist? Taking his ideas and turning them into chapters – and then… gasp… he looks at those chapters and criticises them. He tells you exactly what you got right and wrong. My knees shake at the very thought, but that’s what working with James Patterson is all…
Ok –authordom isn’t a real word, but bear with me. I think it should be. According to the Oxford dictionary, dom is a suffix which denotes a state or condition (freedom); rank or status (earldom); a domain (kingdom) or a class of people (officialdom). That’s us – isn’t it?
A balcony, a sunset, a sea view and a glass of wine – no, not a romantic weekend away (I wish) – it was the 25th Annual Romance Writers of Australia conference. This had the theme Ain’t Love Grand, and was held in the lovely city of Adelaide. This is the second time I have…
They say you never forget your first – and in this case, my first first. I am talking about the first story I have written in the first person. Normally I’m a third kind of girl… that is to say all my books are written in the third person and from multiple viewpoints. But I…
Drum Roll Please… It’s here – the fourth book in my Coorah Creek series. Little Girl Lost takes us back to Coorah Creek, where we meet up with Sergeant Max, Trish at the pub, Dr Adam and Dan the park ranger… all our old friends. And there are some new faces in town too.…
My visit to the Aran islands (see last week’s blog) was all about knitting, but there were two more island groups I had to see while I was in Ireland. This time it was all about language and literature and puffins with light sabres. Both islands are uninhabited, but both have stories to tell. It…
This week has been all about covers for me… First of all there was the staggering news that not one but two of my books had received an Award of Excellence for their covers from the Colorado Romance Writers – a chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Of course, I hasten to point out…
I seem to remember that on this blog some time ago, I vowed to make sure that this year I read some new authors – AND some of the TBR paperbacks on my bookshelves. I’m trying – honestly I am, but I have been travelling a bit lately, and the e-reader is so much easier…