It has recently occurred to me that I don’t listen to audio books any more. I used to listen to them am lot, when I lived in Australia; mostly in the car. My introduction to quite a few classics was via a voice telling me a story as I drove long distances from the small…
I’m a bit late blogging this week – blame the Romantic Novelists Association conference and all those lovely people who ‘forced’ me to spend four days talking and attending workshops and eating chocolate and drinking red wine. Shame upon you ladies and gentlemen. Normal service will be resumed next week – but in the…
I was totally thrilled this week when my website – this very website – won the Viewers’ Choice vote in the West Houston RWA Romancing the URL contest. Because I also run the RNA website, and because of my somewhat uber-geek background, a lot of people ask me what makes a good website. Well, now…
This week I almost but not quite managed to accidentally on purpose bump into James Bond. I was working at Pinewood movie studios – and Daniel Craig was too. The latest Bond film – Spectre – has been in production there. A couple of my (female) colleagues came into the office all agog because they’d…
What do you dream about? What is your worst nightmare? My good friend and sometimes co-conspirator Alison May has a new book out – Midsummer Dreams. To celebrate, she’s holding a world-wide multi-mega-blog post on the subject of dreams. Midsummer Dreams is a romantic comedy – but that isn’t keeping nightmares from sneaking into the…
It sounds like a rock concert tour doesn’t it – but I’m referring to all the fun I’ve been having on the book tour. This isn’t a tour that involves planes and hotel rooms – I see them all the time on the day job. This is a blog tour – and, to tell you…
It’s such a joy to go back to a favourite book and rediscover it. I did that recently with The Thorn Birds. Re-reading a long-time favourite after many years can be disappointing. Sometimes the book is not as we remember it. But in this case, it was exactly as I remembered it. The writing was…
I am totally thrilled to announce (drum roll, trumpet fanfare … etc) the second Coorah Creek novel – The Wild One. I know I say this about all my books – but I totally loved writing this book. It was great to re-visit the town and the characters from Flight To Coorah Creek – but…