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Six Sentence Sunday
Welcome to my very first SSS - and if you don't know what that is, click here.
Here are six sentences from my upcoming Riva/Romance, FLIRTING WITH ITALIAN...
Her brain was apparently engaged, busy dealing with a bombardment of signals. The sun hot on her arms, her throat, her breasts. The sensuous sweep of the mouth hovering above her own, the scent of warm skin, leather…
The world seemed to have slowed down and it took forever for his lips to reach hers. Somewhere, deep inside her brain the word “…no…” was teetering on the brink and all she had to do was move her lips, but her butter-soft mouth seemed to belong to someone else.
When it parted, it was not to protest; as his mouth found hers a tingle of something like recognition raced like wildfire through her blood, blotting out reason and her body, with nothing to guide it, softened, melted against him, murmured, “Yes…”
Flirting with Italian
Here are six sentences from my upcoming Riva/Romance, FLIRTING WITH ITALIAN...
Her brain was apparently engaged, busy dealing with a bombardment of signals. The sun hot on her arms, her throat, her breasts. The sensuous sweep of the mouth hovering above her own, the scent of warm skin, leather…
The world seemed to have slowed down and it took forever for his lips to reach hers. Somewhere, deep inside her brain the word “…no…” was teetering on the brink and all she had to do was move her lips, but her butter-soft mouth seemed to belong to someone else.
When it parted, it was not to protest; as his mouth found hers a tingle of something like recognition raced like wildfire through her blood, blotting out reason and her body, with nothing to guide it, softened, melted against him, murmured, “Yes…”
Flirting with Italian
Tempted By Trouble
A big thank to all the six hundred plus people who entered to win a copy of my book.
A copy of Tempted went in the post today to the winner!
I will be doing this again soon - good luck!
A copy of Tempted went in the post today to the winner!
I will be doing this again soon - good luck!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Pausing briefly in the mayhem of the season to wish all my friends on Goodreads a very merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful New Year with your loved ones safe around you.
With love, Liz
With love, Liz
Little Book of Writing Romance
It seems to have taken forever to launch my latest project, Liz Fielding's Little Book of Writing Romance, but it's finally available on Kindle and will be appearing on other platforms in the next day or two.
I'm just about managing to contain my excitement long enough to tell you that this little book is a primer - an entry level aid for the writer who has a story to tell, but is struggling to get it out of her head and onto paper. To quote the theme song for the movie of Erich Segal’s bestselling book Love Story, “How do you begin. . . ”
I know how that feels, I’ve been there and I have written the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out.
My purpose is to explain, in the simplest terms — no jargon! — and using examples from my own work, how to make the transition from the story in your head to words on paper. How to write a compelling opening, deepen conflict, write honest emotion, hopefully with a touch of humour to leaven the mix. How to write crisp dialogue, develop the romance, add a little sizzle.
I'm just about managing to contain my excitement long enough to tell you that this little book is a primer - an entry level aid for the writer who has a story to tell, but is struggling to get it out of her head and onto paper. To quote the theme song for the movie of Erich Segal’s bestselling book Love Story, “How do you begin. . . ”
I know how that feels, I’ve been there and I have written the book I wish I’d had when I was starting out.
My purpose is to explain, in the simplest terms — no jargon! — and using examples from my own work, how to make the transition from the story in your head to words on paper. How to write a compelling opening, deepen conflict, write honest emotion, hopefully with a touch of humour to leaven the mix. How to write crisp dialogue, develop the romance, add a little sizzle.
Here Come the Grooms!
It's time for the annual HERE COME THE GROOMS! contest run by myself, Anne McAllister and Kate Walker. There are three prizes; three copies of the three featured books for three lucky winners!
First up, Yiannis Savas from Anne McAllister 's Savas's Wildcat!
Yiannis Savas, the irresistible playboy of the Savas dynasty, was every girl's dream. But he quickly turned into Cat's nightmare when his idea of a relationship was no more than a fiery affair.
Now Cat MacLean has grown up and out of her girlish fantasies. Determined not to fall prey to smooth talk and fast charm again, she's engaged to someone sensible.
Then she's forced to spend a week with the one man she's never been able to forget...
Yiannis' question is - "Who's Harry?"
Next it's Carlos Diablo Ortega from Kate Walker's The Devil and Miss Jones
Martha Jones has never taken a risk in her whole life. Until the day she runs out on her wedding and succumbs to the magnetism of a man she has only just met! A man she knows only as Diablo.
Lone wolf Carlos Ortega won't promise Miss Jones more than one searing-hot night. Yet Carlos is shocked by Martha's sweet innocence. This runaway bride is a virgin, and it seems the repercussions of their sizzling encounter could last forever . . .
Carlos' question is - What is Martha wearing – and holding when he first sees her?
Finally it's Matteo di Serrone from my own, Flirting With Italian
Sarah Gratton is a history teacher, picking up her life after her fiance falls for someone new. She has taken a job in an international school in Rome and has her heart set on finding out what happened to the woman who saved her great-grandfather's life in 1944. Instead she finds Matteo.
Matteo's question is,- I asked Sarah if she'd found someone. Who was it?
Here's the competition - email Anne, Kate and myself (all three of us!) - subject line Here Come the Grooms - with the answers to all three of the questions posed by our grooms. You'll find the answers in the excerpts on our web pages. Three lucky winners will each win a copy of all three books.
We'll be drawing the prize winners on Sadie Hawkins Days, which, if you've been paying attention you'll know is 29 February.
Good luck!
For more information check out our blogs!
First up, Yiannis Savas from Anne McAllister 's Savas's Wildcat!
Yiannis Savas, the irresistible playboy of the Savas dynasty, was every girl's dream. But he quickly turned into Cat's nightmare when his idea of a relationship was no more than a fiery affair.
Now Cat MacLean has grown up and out of her girlish fantasies. Determined not to fall prey to smooth talk and fast charm again, she's engaged to someone sensible.
Then she's forced to spend a week with the one man she's never been able to forget...
Yiannis' question is - "Who's Harry?"
Next it's Carlos Diablo Ortega from Kate Walker's The Devil and Miss Jones
Martha Jones has never taken a risk in her whole life. Until the day she runs out on her wedding and succumbs to the magnetism of a man she has only just met! A man she knows only as Diablo.
Lone wolf Carlos Ortega won't promise Miss Jones more than one searing-hot night. Yet Carlos is shocked by Martha's sweet innocence. This runaway bride is a virgin, and it seems the repercussions of their sizzling encounter could last forever . . .
Carlos' question is - What is Martha wearing – and holding when he first sees her?
Finally it's Matteo di Serrone from my own, Flirting With Italian
Sarah Gratton is a history teacher, picking up her life after her fiance falls for someone new. She has taken a job in an international school in Rome and has her heart set on finding out what happened to the woman who saved her great-grandfather's life in 1944. Instead she finds Matteo.
Matteo's question is,- I asked Sarah if she'd found someone. Who was it?
Here's the competition - email Anne, Kate and myself (all three of us!) - subject line Here Come the Grooms - with the answers to all three of the questions posed by our grooms. You'll find the answers in the excerpts on our web pages. Three lucky winners will each win a copy of all three books.
We'll be drawing the prize winners on Sadie Hawkins Days, which, if you've been paying attention you'll know is 29 February.
Good luck!
For more information check out our blogs!
SIX SENTENCE SUNDAY GOES WILD!
I think of the three Beaumont Brides cover, WILD LADY is my favourite in both the old paper edition and the new eBook.(Since I haven't been able to figure out how to add that to Goodreads you'll have to go to my blog to see the new cover. I just love how Gabriel is smiling, how happy he is to be with Claudia.
Here's a six sentence Sunday snippet so that you can get to know them better, too:-
Offering up a silent prayer that it wouldn't shake, he raised his hand, holding it out in a wordless demand that she bring her dress to him. Surrender completely.
For one long moment she made him wait, made him endure the torture that he had inflicted upon himself, before bending gracefully to pick up her discarded dress, carrying it towards him in two outstretched hands like a precious votive offering from some heathen priestess. But if her stance was that of a supplicant, her eyes were not downcast, they were bright and knowing and her lips were set in a provocative curve. For a moment his resolve wavered as he realised that she had not surrendered. The game had simply moved onto another level.
I've dropped the price on WILD LADY for this weekend's six sentence on Kindle and at Smashwords, to introduce a newly edited version (although the spelling is still English/English!), so if you like it, fill your boots and tell your friends!
And do go and visit the other Six Sentence Sunday writers - it's a great way of finding out whether an author's voice grabs you.
Here's a six sentence Sunday snippet so that you can get to know them better, too:-
Offering up a silent prayer that it wouldn't shake, he raised his hand, holding it out in a wordless demand that she bring her dress to him. Surrender completely.
For one long moment she made him wait, made him endure the torture that he had inflicted upon himself, before bending gracefully to pick up her discarded dress, carrying it towards him in two outstretched hands like a precious votive offering from some heathen priestess. But if her stance was that of a supplicant, her eyes were not downcast, they were bright and knowing and her lips were set in a provocative curve. For a moment his resolve wavered as he realised that she had not surrendered. The game had simply moved onto another level.
I've dropped the price on WILD LADY for this weekend's six sentence on Kindle and at Smashwords, to introduce a newly edited version (although the spelling is still English/English!), so if you like it, fill your boots and tell your friends!
And do go and visit the other Six Sentence Sunday writers - it's a great way of finding out whether an author's voice grabs you.
Eloping With Emmy
Long ago and far away, hot on the heels of the Beaumont Brides trilogy, I wrote my first book for Mills and Boon with dual viewpoint.
I didn't talk to my editor about it first, I just found myself starting the book with Tom Brodie, my hero, sitting across the desk from a man he disliked, wishing he was having dinner with the silver-blonde barrister with whom he'd been playing kiss-chase with for weeks.
Upstairs, Emerald Carlisle, the man's wayward daughter, was having an equally bad day, but she wasn't taking it lying down.
It's the beginning of a roller-coaster romcom road book inspired by "It Happened One Night", but more akin to a Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn comedy. Smart girl doing whatever it takes to keep one step ahead of equally smart guy.
I had the best fun writing it. I hope you'll have fun reading it.
Here's a clip of ELOPING WITH EMMY:
‘I’ll expect to hear from you within twenty-four hours that this matter has been settled, Brodie,’ Carlisle said, as he walked with him down the steps. ‘I want no delay.’
Brodie considered whether to mention the possibility that the lovebirds might already have flown, probably to one of those romantic destinations where weddings could be arranged in a matter of days, in which case it was already too late. But as they reached the bottom of the steps he decided against it.
What clinched it was the sight of Emerald Carlisle, her dress hitched up about her waist, clinging just above head height to an ornate lead drainpipe about twenty feet behind Gerald Carlisle’s back.
Brodie knew that he should draw his client’s attention to what was happening behind him. Something stopped him. It might have been a pair of large pleading eyes. Or the deliciously long legs wrapped about the drainpipe. Or even, heaven forbid, the glimpse of something white and lacy peeping from beneath her tucked up dress.
Or maybe it was just simple distaste that any father could conceive of locking up a fully grown woman simply because her idea of what made a good husband did not coincide with his own.
Whatever it was he decided to take Carlisle at his word. Emerald Carlisle, he had been told, was no concern of his. And when the girl let go of the pipe with one hand and urged him, with an unmistakable gesture that left her swinging in the most perilous fashion above a well-tended rose border, to get her father inside the house, he didn’t hesitate.
Patting at his jacket pocket he turned and headed back up the steps. ‘I think I left my car keys on your desk, sir.’ The “sir” almost choked him.
Eloping With Emmy has now been released as an eBook on Kindle and at Smashwords and you can download it now at the brief introductory price of 99c.
It'll take a few days for it to work it's way onto the Nook/Sony/iTunes platforms, but it will be there soon.
I didn't talk to my editor about it first, I just found myself starting the book with Tom Brodie, my hero, sitting across the desk from a man he disliked, wishing he was having dinner with the silver-blonde barrister with whom he'd been playing kiss-chase with for weeks.
Upstairs, Emerald Carlisle, the man's wayward daughter, was having an equally bad day, but she wasn't taking it lying down.
It's the beginning of a roller-coaster romcom road book inspired by "It Happened One Night", but more akin to a Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn comedy. Smart girl doing whatever it takes to keep one step ahead of equally smart guy.
I had the best fun writing it. I hope you'll have fun reading it.
Here's a clip of ELOPING WITH EMMY:
‘I’ll expect to hear from you within twenty-four hours that this matter has been settled, Brodie,’ Carlisle said, as he walked with him down the steps. ‘I want no delay.’
Brodie considered whether to mention the possibility that the lovebirds might already have flown, probably to one of those romantic destinations where weddings could be arranged in a matter of days, in which case it was already too late. But as they reached the bottom of the steps he decided against it.
What clinched it was the sight of Emerald Carlisle, her dress hitched up about her waist, clinging just above head height to an ornate lead drainpipe about twenty feet behind Gerald Carlisle’s back.
Brodie knew that he should draw his client’s attention to what was happening behind him. Something stopped him. It might have been a pair of large pleading eyes. Or the deliciously long legs wrapped about the drainpipe. Or even, heaven forbid, the glimpse of something white and lacy peeping from beneath her tucked up dress.
Or maybe it was just simple distaste that any father could conceive of locking up a fully grown woman simply because her idea of what made a good husband did not coincide with his own.
Whatever it was he decided to take Carlisle at his word. Emerald Carlisle, he had been told, was no concern of his. And when the girl let go of the pipe with one hand and urged him, with an unmistakable gesture that left her swinging in the most perilous fashion above a well-tended rose border, to get her father inside the house, he didn’t hesitate.
Patting at his jacket pocket he turned and headed back up the steps. ‘I think I left my car keys on your desk, sir.’ The “sir” almost choked him.
Eloping With Emmy has now been released as an eBook on Kindle and at Smashwords and you can download it now at the brief introductory price of 99c.
It'll take a few days for it to work it's way onto the Nook/Sony/iTunes platforms, but it will be there soon.
Another rainy Sunday...
I think we're about to get another "rain" day, so the latest lot of plants will be staying in their pots. The bee hotel being built by the "best beloved" is coming along, though.
And this is his latest gardening project.
And this is his latest gardening project.
