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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…
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Things to remember
I’m a bit late blogging this week – blame the Romantic Novelists Association conference and all those lovely people who ‘forced’ me to spend four days talking and attending workshops and…