This week I spent a lovely evening as a guest of She Voices – a group of women writers based in Richmond, in London. We gathered at the Tea Box for an evening of music and words with an added layer of cake, tea (and wine) and fellowship. I was struck by how important evenings…
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to draw on my (too many) years as a broadcast journalist to offer some tips on how to make the most out of those rare opportunities to talk about our writing on TV or Radio. I thought I would share some top tips with you here…
There’s been a bit of excitement in my house this week…. and a very warm and fuzzy feeling for the US state of Colorado. The reason – The Wild One is a finalist in the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence. Excellence! What a truly… um… excellent word that is. I’m having a bit of…
I never throw away anything I write. Even if it’s terrible. It’s not just because I am a pack rat and have trouble throwing anything away (although I am and I do- as testified to by my messy office). It’s because there’s no such thing as a bad idea. A bad idea is just an…
Writing is a fairly solitary occupation – well, depending on your definition of solitary. I do spend a lot of time sitting at my desk talking to imaginary people in my head. When I put it like that, it does sound a bit strange – but you know what I mean (I hope). But this…
This week saw the annual Romantic Novelist Association Awards – the RoNAS. It’s THE event of the year for a lot of us. A time when the RNA honours the best of the best. As always, I was one of the workers… which means I was so frantically busy, I didn’t get to talk to…
It seems only fitting that on Valentine’s Day, I should do a blog devoted to Romance – ah, but not just any romance. This is all about my love affair with books – specifically books about relationships and love, because after all our relationships with other people are the most important part of our lives.…
I stepped back in time a little this week – back to my days as a journalist when I was doing radio news reports. But this time – I was on the other side of the microphone. Some of my writer chums and I went over to Radio Marlow FM to talk about writing romantic…