The book of the heart

  I spent a fabulous and challenging morning yesterday, courtesy of Zoom, at a workshop for…

Met any good themes lately?

Doing a guest blog post for Books in my Handbag recently, on the subject of themes…

What next?

 A Wedding on the Riviera has been out just over a week, and I’ve been doing…

Well, it’s out there now…

 Yesterday was publication day for A Wedding on the Riviera.  This is the scary bit –…

Less than a week to go!

 It’s getting closer! A Wedding on the Riviera is released on 22 September as an e-book, with…

Are you ready for the most fabulous wedding?

Save the date! A Wedding on the Riviera is out on 22nd September. That’s just under…

Now it’s getting closer.

It’s September. In three weeks time my fifth book, A Wedding on the Riviera, will be…

The evolution of romantic suspense

If you speak to a UK writer of romance about the things that have inspired or…

Working in two dimensions

The first set of edits went back last week and when you are waiting for the…

Now it’s real

A book really gets real when the cover is revealed and it’s up for pre-order. So,…

Stop Press – Hot News

 Cover reveal next Tuesday. 11th August. Trust me it is GORGEOUS.

Quiet please, I’m editing. And going dark.

The edits arrived for A Wedding on the Riviera, and it looks like I’m keeping the…

Creating a smokescreen.

I had a good weekend with the WIP, which is coming along fine, creating some smokescreens.…

And the next book is on the horizon …

It’s been a busy week, as lock-downs go – several zooms, including the Romantic Novelist’s Association …

Time line – then or now?

There has been a certain amount of discussion in writing circles about what people are doing…

On being improbable

First – with an update on last week’s post, there is now no dust under the…

National Writing Day?

Well – Riviera Rogues 2 went off to the publishers last week. Now we just have…

Vision and Reality

The second in the Riviera series is very close to being ready to go to the…

Power of the Imagination

Yesterday the Cariad Chapter of the Romantic Novelists’ Association did a Zoom workshop with the lovely…

In a virtual world

Many organisations are showing remarkable ingenuity in presenting events that would have been live, in alternative…

Destination – Italy?

It seems hard to believe that it’s a week since I took the stage at the…

Ten things to think about when choosing locations.

We’ve all read the reviews that claim that the location is almost a character in the…

Just checking

I have to say that I am a bit obsessive about fact checking for the manuscripts.…

Finally getting there?

One from the archives this week. In the midst of lock-down, I decided to have a…

But where is it set?

When an author talks about books, the subject of location invariably comes up. It can be…