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The Next Big Thing

I've been tagged by the gorgeous Heidi Rice has tagged me to join in with THE NEXT BIG THING, a series of questions on my next book. So here's the skinny:


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Kiss Me Under The Mistletoe: Hero and Heroine

I've been using all my words to work recently, but in the meantime, I'll leave you with a couple of pics.


 Here is how I imagined Ben and Louise from Kiss Me Under The Mistletoe:

RWA 2012 - part four: plans gone wrong and more food...

If anything, Saturday was even busier than Friday. I saw that Michael Hauge was doing another workshop, so decided to get another fix. Unfortunately, they had given him a room half the size of the one yesterday (which had been full), and people were lining the walls. I decided to sit on the floor at the front of the room.

 It was only after Michael started talking that I realised this was a repeat of the workshop I'd been to yesterday. Note to self: read programme properly before you plon...

RWA 2012 - part 3: Fan-girl moments and crazy dancing...

Michael HaugeBy Friday things had shifted into high gear at the RWA conference.  I spent Friday in two double-length workshops given my screen writing guru Michael Hauge. If you frequent this blog, you’ll know how I rave about his approach to storytelling. I’d heard his workshop about internal conflict and romantic comedies before, but I always get something new out of it. And in the afternoon I listened to him give a breakdown of Pretty Woman, showing how it applied to his ideas – somet...

Three books out!

I'm pausing from my RWA re-cap to mention it's publication day for Always The Best Man in the US! 

Take one perfect best man, add a less-than-perfect, sassy bridesmaid and a borrowed honeymoon and you've got a recipe for romacne!  
To read more about the book, you can check out my website.
 
But that's not all! Three Blind-Date Brides is out at the M&B site, and will be on general release in September. A few years ago I did a trilogy of books with authors Jennie Adams and Meli...

RWA 2012–part 2

After my adventures at Disneyland it was back to the hotel to get reader for the Readers for Life Literacy Signing. Each year RWA holds this charity event to raise money for literacy charities. Publishers and authors donate books for the event and all the money raised goes to the charity. If you ever wanted to wander through a room full of more than 400 authors, all happy to chat and meet readers and sign books, you really need to pop along if it ever happens in a city near you! This year RWA...

RWA 2012–part 1

I hadn’t planned on attending the RWA conference this year, much as I love the craziness of the whole event, but then my best writing buddy Donna Alward was shortlisted for a RITA I counted up my pennies and decided to go. How could I not be there to cheer her on? (Lest anyone think I am completely saintly, I did really want to go anyway.)

It’s a long old flight to LAX from London. Thankfully, fellow Harlequin/M&B author Heidi Rice and I had organised to sit together and gossiping between...

Having fun with sticks

M&B have been running a romantic story featuring stick men and women on their Facebook page. Such fun. Readers have been voting for their preferences for names, characters, locations and plot twists. I thought it was so cute I decided I'd have a go myself!

So, this is what an author gets up to on a Sunday evening... Excuse the patchy colour, but it seems we have tons of felt tips in the house, but none of them actually have ink inside. Had to resort to colouring pencils in the end (sorted...

Stuck in the middle?

I'm a busy little bee at the moment. Revisions are in for my Valentine's story, and then I'm working on another book that has to be done and dusted by mid-July.

In the meantime, I'm blogging over at the Pink Heart Society today, talking about story structure and character arc - especially that sticky middle point.

Almost there...

I wrote the final scene of my current book (working title: The Valentine's Trap, part of a duet I'm doing with Nikki Logan) this morning.

Hard at work at my local Waitrose!I had the scene all planned out, but I couldn't get my head in the right place to put it down on paper. So what did I do? I went shopping. No, not shoe shopping - grocery shopping. Writing in cafes is my trick when I can't seem to settle to write at home. Nothing to distract me there, especially if I take pen and paper and d...