It’s been an exciting week – mostly postage related. It started when the nice parcel delivery man knocked on the door to give me a big brown cardboard box. It contained my paperback copies of Little Girl Lost. The paperback is officially released this month. It’s lovely to have a copy to pat. And no,…
A little while ago, Bob Dylan was award the Nobel Prize in Literature – the first songwriter ever to receive the award. I found this really interesting for two reasons… Firstly that some people should question that a songwriter should be given an award for literature. And secondly – why hasn’t it happened before? Personally –…
Don’t you hate it when someone’s phone goes off at a really inopportune moment. Like during a film, or a live performance. That’s why I always turn mine off, or to vibrate. Last Sunday I was at a folk club, listening to some really good music, when the phone started to vibrate in my pocket.…
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks looked away in my editing cave… putting final touches on the next book before it goes out into the world. Editing is both a technical and emotional process…. Here’s the emotional…
We all have them – the ‘one day’ house. Go on… confess. I bet you have one too. ‘One day – when I win the lottery….’ or ‘One day when I am fabulously rich…’ It’s otherwise known as the dream house. I think I started designing the house of my dreams when I was about…
Can you imagine writing with the world’s biggest-selling novelist? Taking his ideas and turning them into chapters – and then… gasp… he looks at those chapters and criticises them. He tells you exactly what you got right and wrong. My knees shake at the very thought, but that’s what working with James Patterson is all…
Ok –authordom isn’t a real word, but bear with me. I think it should be. According to the Oxford dictionary, dom is a suffix which denotes a state or condition (freedom); rank or status (earldom); a domain (kingdom) or a class of people (officialdom). That’s us – isn’t it?
A balcony, a sunset, a sea view and a glass of wine – no, not a romantic weekend away (I wish) – it was the 25th Annual Romance Writers of Australia conference. This had the theme Ain’t Love Grand, and was held in the lovely city of Adelaide. This is the second time I have…