I’ve have been wondering… How do you get to be called ‘the great’? Presumably, someone else has to give you the title because taking it for yourself would be a bit vain (although I’ll bet there were a few who did). I understand Alexander the Great – after all, he conquered most of the known world.…
My mother used to say that the very first word I spoke wasn’t Mummy or Daddy – it was horsey. I am entirely willing to believe her. Like most young girls, I loved horses. But in my case, it was a love affair I never grew out of. Circumstances over the years changed the nature…
My recent reads list is a pretty varied one. When I’m writing, I do try not to read books similar to the one I’m working on. I don’t want what I am reading to influence what I am writing. So I have travelled far and wide these recent weeks. And the best book award…
This week – I had the joy of spending a few days in Melbourne at the RWA (Romance Writers Of Australia) conference. It was great to make so many new friends and meet so many writers.. And there were some unexpected bonus moments…
I found out this week that I am a finalist in the Aspen Gold Readers’ Choice Awards, run by the Heart of Denver Romance Writers. I am thrilled for two reasons. First, it really is an honour to be included on a shortlist that includes so many fine writers And secondly, because I have been…
It’s August and the sun is shining (well – occasionally) and that means I am to be found on most weekends camping in a field listening to music with fifteen or twenty thousand of my closest friends. I always know it’s festival season by the sudden appearance of that strange and rarest of creatures –…
It has recently occurred to me that I don’t listen to audio books any more. I used to listen to them am lot, when I lived in Australia; mostly in the car. My introduction to quite a few classics was via a voice telling me a story as I drove long distances from the small…
I did something amazing this weekend. I wrote two words. Those two words you can see there on the left. Those two words of course had been preceded by about 70,000 other words. I have finished book number eight. Well, when I say finished… This first draft has to be re-read and polished. There are…
Last weekend, I joined a couple of hundred other writers for the annual Romantic Novelists Association conference. This year it was close to home at Queen Mary University in east London, but in the past I have travelled some distance to attend the conference. I’ve also made my way to other such events overseas. Why?…
