I’m visiting New Orleans for the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention all this week. I will try to post some news – and some photos – but it’s going to be a busy week. There will be literally thousands of readers and writers here – all talking about romance novels. Wow! New Orleans is also…
It is amazing what we think we know… but don’t. Actually – I didn’t really think I was terrific at punctuation. But I thought I did OK. After all, I’ve written seven novels. I had to have some idea about punctuation. Right? This week, I joined a group of about 30 fellow RNA members in…
In the words of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons – Oh, what a night! All the ingredients were there as we celebrated the launch of Flight to Coorah Creek
It’s done. The second Coorah Creek novel is now in the hands of my lovely publisher Choc Lit. And I am having what webmaster John calls my post-book meltdown. After months of working on the book, of living with the characters and their story every day – letting go is hard. So for the next…
Being a writer involves a lot of sitting at a computer in a small room talking to imaginary people in our heads. But every now and then, we get let out. This week was THE most glamorous event on my social calendar… the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards. But glamour isn’t easy – for…
This week was the official release of the paperback of Flight To Coorah Creek. It’s always terrifying to send something you care about out into the wild world. As previously mentioned on this blog, when it comes to our books, we authors are an insecure lot. Always afraid that this time we got it wrong…
This started out as a blog about my writing space, but soon became a record of my never ending struggle to claim my space from an interloper… And there are, after all, not enough cute cat photos available on the web. I am fortunate to have an office in my house – it’s terribly cluttered…
I did something last week I’ve never done before (usually a good thing). I took part in a Valentine’s Day writing collaboration – with some of my lovely Choc Lit friends. The idea was to do a ‘round robin’ story – with each of us writing a part of the story… For me, at least,…