It’s almost October and we’re enjoying pleasant spring weather in Australia. There’s an old saying that we always want what we can’t have. In 2020, the freedom to travel overseas is one thing we no longer take for granted. I’m glad we have the ability to armchair travel to distant lands by escaping into a […]
Another Book Baby plus Excerpt and Giveaway
There’s nothing like the feeling of holding a newborn in your arms. The wonder and awe of gazing down at this new life. Writers feel pretty much the same about their book babies, and I’ve just added another to the fold, again to the Chapel Cove Romances. Having started writing Accept Me back in August […]
Co-authoring a Series in Pressured Times
Back in October, I did a cover reveal on my post, Of Babes and Book Babies, for Accept Me (Chapel Cove Romances Book 8), which I had hoped to release in December. The busyness of a new grandbaby in the house and my son and his family’s move to Cape Town, put pay to my […]
Chapel Cove is growing (#giveaway)
There’s a new doctor in town, and Chapel Cove is growing. So is Choose Me, book 4 in the Chapel Cove romances. When I first started writing this story way too many weeks ago for my liking, I wondered if I’d manage to get a 35K novella out of my ideas. Well, my characters had […]
Multi-author series – love ’em or loathe ’em?
Happy July! I hope yours has been a good one, whether sweltering in summer or wrapping-up-warm in winter. Or somewhere in the middle like England, where the weather doesn’t seem able to make its mind up about the season! I realized recently that all my new books this year will be in multi-author series. Oops! […]
Love sees with the heart
In reader groups, I’ve seen many readers complain that there are very few romances with less-than-model-perfect heroes and heroines. I’ve written a romance with a plus-sized heroine (Teapots & Tiaras), a highly unconventional heroine with a stuffy upper-class hero (Least Expected), an eighty-something heroine (Innamorata), and a couple of stories where the heroine needs a […]
Let’s Talk About Giveaways
This year, I felt led to do as many giveaways as possible. I love doing them because it gives me a chance to reward my readers (okay, at least the readers who win the giveaway) and to give back to them for all the support they are providing to us. It also gives me the […]
If music be the food of love?
Okay, I promise those of you who know the quote, I’m not going to misquote Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night! When Duke Orsino says If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die, he wants so much music played he gets sick of […]
When life begins at forty… #giveaway
Way back in September 2000, I turned forty with a bash! Surrounded by family and close friends, I hosted a fun “Color Me Forty” party. I donned my brightest, most colorful blouse, and we had a lamb roasting on the spit while we sat outside under our large willow tree drinking brightly colored sodas, playing […]