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…
I was writing when I heard the news that Terry Pratchett had died, and that made it even more heart-breaking. Is it wrong to cry on the death of someone you haven’t met? I don’t think so – and I am certain I was not alone in doing just that. We all knew it was…
It was magical! How often have we heard that said? People say it about special moments in their lives. About Christmas. And weddings. Birthdays and trips and even unplanned and unexpected moments. Just what do we mean by magical? A couple of weeks ago, magic was the topic of a fabulous workshop I attended, led…
There are times I really hate sex – literary sex, of course – what else? Everywhere I went this week, I was confronted with posters advertising the film version of 50 Shades of Grey. Not exactly unexpected, but it got me to thinking about sex in story-telling. To be honest up front, I haven’t read…
There it is – hovering in the top corner of my screen like some digital vulture. Do you see it on your screen too … the SEND button. I’ve recently sent a new book off to my lovely publisher. And am about to send my equally lovely editor the corrected pages of my soon-to-be-released second…
It’s awards season… We all know what that means – Hollywood on show. Gorgeous men in tailored suits, beautiful woman in fab frocks and far too much time spent on the internet looking at both. But Hollywood doesn’t have a monopoly on awards – there are book awards too. I write romance and women’s fiction…
Whenever you get a group of writers together, at some point the conversation is going to swing round to the eternal debate – whether it is best to write in the first person or the third. To explain…. ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ This is the opening line of Daphne Du…
Where did 2014 go? It seems like only yesterday I was preparing for the launch of two new books. So – 2015. Wow. My resolution – if you can call it that – is to release another two new books (both already written) and to write two more. And I promise you, they will be…