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Not run out of things to talk about yet?

Today you'll find me over at Elin Gregory's blog discussing the history of chimney sweeps.

I must confess the post got rather depressing considering it is promo for a Christmas story. Luckily, When Love Flue In contains none of these elements. I'll apologise now, though.

For goodness sake woman put a sock in it

Today I'll be over at Meredith Russell's blog (check out the link to her cover art work while you're there).

My inane ramblings today will involve additional content and the type of scenes guaranteed to strike fear in my heart when I'm asked to knock one up.

Me again

Hello again. Yep, it's me.

Today I'm discussing one of my favourite festive treats over at Katherine Halle's blog.

The Mince Pie. Where did that idea come from and why do we eat it at Christmas?

Stop One

On the first stop of my mini tour I'm blogging over at RJ's blog. Well, Reagan is actually. He's going to tell you all about life as a modern day chimney sweep.

To recap

I know the links in Friday and Saturday's posts were misbehaving. These have been updated to the correct links but I'll list them here as well.

Female First

ARe Cafe

This has been a public service announcement.

Announcing a mini blog tour and a chance to win

So When Love Flue In has been out a couple of days and already I've blogged in a few places that were arranged by Totally Bound. (Thanks Holly.) But feeling the need for the familiar I decided to gather (aka pester) some friends and arrange a mini blog tour of my own.

The stops for the tour will be

RJ Scott 
Katherine Halle
Meredith Russell
Elin Gregory
Therese Woodson

Follow each of these posts and at the end of the tour I'll pose a question. It could be taken from any of these five posts. Cor...

Wherein I babble on again

So if you didn't hear enough of my opinions yesterday there are yet more oportunities to listen to me going on in the coming week.

Today you'll find me over at ARe Cafe discussing what type of read I hope to find whenever I pick up a Christmas story.

When Love Flue In released today

Today sees the release of my Christmas novella 'When Love Flue In'.

To celebrate this release I'm blogging over at Female First  about book titles and the importance (or not) of getting them right. Join me over there and let me know what you think.



A soot-haired chimney sweep, an exploding flue and an uncooked turkey. It’s an unholy trinity that may make all of Dominic’s Christmas wishes come true.

Dominic is celebrating his first Christmas since his divorce, and although he’s spe...

December and what I hope to achieve

To be fair the answer to that is very little. By its very nature December is a slow writing month for me at the best of times. There is just too much family stuff going on to actually make any plans. But this year has the added chaos that is a new release.

For anyone who hasn’t been to this blog in a while ‘When Love Flue In’ will be released this coming Friday, 5th December. Many blog posts will ensue where I wax lyrical about chimney sweeps or all things Christmas related. I’ll also be givin...

December Planned Reading List

With so many books in my TBR pile I like to get some idea of what I intend to read during the coming month. It doesn’t always work, some books are still floundering unread even though they been on my planned reading list since January.
December is easy, though. December is Christmas and Festive Holiday reading. There are a couple of books on this list that I don’t own yet. Also I have pre-ordered Dreamspinner’s Celebrate package so I shall have all of those individual stories to read too.
This...