A short stop in the Twilight Zone.
On a weekend excursion into upstate New York, we stopped for lunch at a small town called Binghamton. It was an unremarkable town, in which we ate a reasonable but unremarkable lunch.…
Category: Writing
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Under Northern Lights
Imagine sitting in a tiny cottage, snowbound in a winter where the sun never peeks over the horizon – and a book lets you escape into the sweltering heat of the…
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A master class in story-telling.
In a small bar in lower Manhattan last night, an Australian singer-songwriter showed me just what great story telling is all about. Paul Kelly has written a lot of songs in the…
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Wow – Girl Racers is a Award finalist.
The best thing that’s happened to me this week was learning the Girl Racers is a finalist in the 2011 Aspen Gold Reader’s Choice Awards – run by the Heart of Denver…
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Writing on both sides of the pond…
In London last week I caught up with my friends at the Romantic Novelists’ Association London chapter. We had lunch and a good chat – and they asked me to share some…
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Exhausted but inspired
I’ve just staggered out of the RWA conference here in New York. The staggering part is due to exhaustion – not anything else!! Although there was a bit of that too… So…
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RWA Conference begins
This week is the RWA conference here in NYC. The fun started today with the Literacy signing event. This is what 500 romance writers look like raising funds to promote literacy. The…
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The best of the first…
A comment from a friend of mine set me thinking about first lines. Great first lines. Lines that hook the reader and drag you into the story so quickly that by the…