Becoming 'the great'
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
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In praise of horses
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
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Recent reads
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
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RWA Conference
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
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Loving the Big Blue Bear
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,
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An Englishman’s knees
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
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Books to listen to
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.
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Nervous about number nine
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
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Concerning conferences
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