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Special ops tough guys

Want to read the story this tough guy inspired?

TAG TEAM, my first venture into full-on Special Ops, is out now in the anthology THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SPECIAL OPS ROMANCE.

Doesn't Callan Mulvey have bad boy written all over him?

For those who can't wait...

For those who can't wait until my double release hits the shelves May in the UK and June in North America, both my upcoming releases are available NOW! For Harlequin Romance, THREE TIMES A BRIDESMAID, here. For Harlequin Modern Heat, OVERTIME IN THE BOSS'S BED, here . I'm waiting rather impatiently myself for my UK copies to arrive because I can't wait to gobble up Liz Fielding's latest. I adore Liz's books so to be paired with her is beyond exciting!

Easter greetings

Going offline the next few days to enjoy Easter with my family, so taking this opportunity to wish you all a lovely Easter.

(Weekend Book Club will resume next weekend!)

Boo boo?

Okay, so here's the thing. I'm a tad overworked at the moment, juggling several projects at once, school holidays, hubby's business stuff so I totally missed this. In yesterday's post, I was super excited about my new cover for my May release OVERTIME IN THE BOSS'S BED. The fact it was different from my USA cover didn't matter, as sometimes covers change. Didn't even register that this hasn't happened for a while...So this morning the lovely Mira Lyn Kelly, my shelf buddy in May with her...

Hot stuff

UK copies of OVERTIME IN THE BOSS'S BED haven't arrived yet so imagine my delight when I stumbled across the UK cover last night (Google Alerts is a wonderful thing!) How hot is this?Definitely my hottest Mod Heat cover yet. I love it.The cover fairies have waved their magic wands again! While Callum's story is soon to hit shelves, I've heard back on his brother Rhys' story. My editor absolutely loved the revisions, going as far as to say it's one of my strongest Mod Heats yet. Emotional...

A cast of thousands

So last night I jumped back into Holly and Joss's story, something I'm loving to bits. With the rest of the book roughly outlined into key scenes, a playlist compiled 2 nights ago, I collaged yesterday and it's gorgeous, really evocative of the book and it spurred me into writing 2000 words afterwards.

The thing is, the cast is growing.
A few days ago, I posted Jonathan Rhys Meyers as new inspiration for Quinn, Holly's 'other guy'.

This is the guy I first had pegged for the role, Drew Tyler Bel...

Working through the process

This man has left the building for a second time (and as much as I love my rebel ranger Rhys, I hope I don't see him back until GETTING WILD WITH THE BOSS is in print!)

Yep, finished revisions late last night, always satisfying.
During the last fortnight I added over 5000 words in new scenes: tightening conflict, layering more emotion, getting inside Rhys and Jade's heads more.

I love how editors can pick up on key points from a scene, make a suggestion or two to get a writer's imagination tick...

Rich writing

I've been so caught up with life and writing and business stuff, all while trying to get over throat infection, that last week passed in a bit of a blur.

So I know some Aussie mates finalled in the RITAs but I hadn't seen the whole list. Yesterday I took a squiz and was absolutely delighted to see one of my all time favourite authors there, Barbara O'Neal, with this book.If you haven't read any of Barbara's books, do yourself a favour (her original women's fiction novels are written under Bar...

Weekend Book Club

This week, I read my first Jeffery Deaver novel, THE BROKEN WINDOW.

I love a good suspense/thriller novel and this one had me riveted.

Many of you have probably seen THE BONE COLLECTOR, with Denzil Washington and Angelina Jolie? Well, this book features Lincoln Rhyme again, the quadraplegic criminalist who's an absolute whiz at solving crimes.

Loved the characterisation, the plot and the suspense in this book, though my eyes glazed over at the computer/data/technical side of things at times (b...

The juggler

With working on several stories at once, I'm becoming an expert juggler.

Early morning starts (I actually started writing at 5am yesterday!) are for working on 'Holly and Joss', a story that excites me so much I'm bursting with the urge to blab (but won't, until later...)

Nights are for revising Mod Heat and once that's done, hopefully this weekend, back to writing the Romance.

I don't usually work on 2 books at once, hence my post about playlists yesterday. I'm going to create one for Holly an...