A new story…
I’m very excited to say I have a new short story available in a wonderful new anthology – Kisses and Cupcakes. It’s a great selection of stories from the Choc Lit authors…
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Vive la différence…
What’s your favourite – historical or contemporary? YA perhaps or fantasy? Maybe a little futuristic romance? This weekend the London RNA chapter had a workshop on different romantic genres. The speakers were all…
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More recent reads…
I seem to have collected more than 400 books on my Kindle. How did that happen? Add to that the eight – yes 8 – bookshelves in my house, most…
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It’s not the just real world changing
I’ve been re-reading a few of my favourite old books. Well – not so old. Some were written in the 80s and 90s… and I was immediately struck by how much technology…
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The battle at Battle
It’s not the most imaginative name really – Battle. The town built on the site of the Battle of Hastings – which of course didn’t happen at Hastings at all – it…
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Judging books by their covers
According to ancient wisdom – we’re not supposed to… but we do it all the time. Book lovers will stick with a favourite author and just buy everything they write (hence the…
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It's all about image…
As writers – we paint pictures with words… right? But what about those times we need to paint pictures with – well… pictures. With blogs and Facebook and Pinterest and other social…
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A love affair with books…
Can you imagine a whole weekend devoted to romantic novels – filled with people who love reading and writing them? The lovely market town of Leighton Buzzard was inundated with writers…
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A love/hate thing…
I woke up the other morning – and saw a few leaves falling from the tree in my back garden. It was also a tad chilly. Not cold – just chilly.…