Not getting arrested is fun too…
…or what I did on my vacation, Part 2 I’ve always found the story of the Manhattan project fascinating – this ultra-secret project developed on an isolated plateau in New Mexico. It…
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What I did on my vacation – Part 1.
My head is full of the strangest facts – and it’s all my parents’ fault. When I was a kid, they brought a never-ending stream of books into the house. The types…
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There IS such a thing as a free lunch..
The other day, webmaster John and I were walking around the Rockefeller Centre, looking for a restaurant. We were planning to take friends from the UK to dinner, before going to…
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Up close and personal with alligators
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to spend a day in the Florida Everglades. Wow! I’d read about the Everglades as a kid and always wanted to see them. From an…
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Wow – Girl Racers is a Award finalist.
The best thing that’s happened to me this week was learning the Girl Racers is a finalist in the 2011 Aspen Gold Reader’s Choice Awards – run by the Heart of Denver…
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Writing on both sides of the pond…
In London last week I caught up with my friends at the Romantic Novelists’ Association London chapter. We had lunch and a good chat – and they asked me to share some…
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Exhausted but inspired
I’ve just staggered out of the RWA conference here in New York. The staggering part is due to exhaustion – not anything else!! Although there was a bit of that too… So…
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RWA Conference begins
This week is the RWA conference here in NYC. The fun started today with the Literacy signing event. This is what 500 romance writers look like raising funds to promote literacy. The…
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The best of the first…
A comment from a friend of mine set me thinking about first lines. Great first lines. Lines that hook the reader and drag you into the story so quickly that by the…