Category: Writing

  • What J-Lo got wrong..

      Microphobia… …. is really the fear of microscopic things, but let’s pretend it’s also fear of the microphone. The second part of these media blogs deals with interviews for broadcast, and the simple mistakes that even a super-celebrity can make…

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  • A media workshop

    Yesterday I led a media workshop for the London Chapter of the Romantic Novelists Association. The chapter’s theme for this year is ‘Sisters are doing it for themselves’ and my contribution to the theme was to draw on my years working in the media to talk about how authors can use the media to help…

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  • What a great welcome home

      Hello from London…  Most of the terrible things they say about the weather here are true – especially this time of the year… but that doesn’t matter. It’s great to be home. One of the first things I have done since arriving – and one of the best – is to attend the book…

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  • The next big thing …

    I usually don’t say much about my books until they are finished, but I’m about to make an exeption. Last week my dear friend and fellow writer Jean Fullerton tagged me in the “next big thing” round. That just happened to coincide with me typing ‘the end’, which is always a reason to celebrate. Except…

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  • What's in a name?

    This morning I received these in the post – copies of the Norwegian edition of my novel “The Farmer Needs A Wife”. It’s such a pretty cover- it made me smile immediately.. But now I’m wondering what the title is …

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  • Simply aMAZEing

      I was wandering around London’s South Bank the other day, soaking up the atmosphere of my favourite city, when I stumbled across something rather fabulous in the ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall. It’s called aMAZEme – and it’s a maze made of a quarter of a million books – with the design based…

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