My friend, Jeff, (you can find him at FourFoxesOneHound) has set the benchmark for support to his colleagues and I want to do the same for mine: All this month and through the Festive season, I will be featuring your books on my blog. All you have to do is leave a comment on either […]
Interview with Ilsa Mayr: The Widow
Ilsa Mayr, Avalon Romance and Mystery writer, talks with me about her latest release, The Widow. Ilsa takes an age old story and brings it to the brink of contemporary conflict.
Wait a Lonely Lifetime: April 2012
My editor at Avalon Books has just told me that Wait a Lonely Lifetime will be published two months earlier than originally scheduled. Avalon Books releases 60 titles a year, the majority of which are romance novels. Wait a Lonely Lifetime will be in the April releases so I’ll be editing/proofreading the book early in […]
Defending Romance – Again.
USA Today Interview with Sarah Wendell (Smart Bitches Trashy Books) While there is an erotic subgenre for romance fiction and this seems to be overwhelming the market at the moment, there are many more areas of the commercial genre, as in any other type of genre fiction. Crime fiction often has major sexual overtones but […]
Summer Reading
Is there any activity more iconic to the warm weather than picking up a book and losing yourself in another world? Probably, but I’ve had the extraordinary pleasure of actually 1) finding the time and 2) discovering books that warranted the commitment of precious hours. On a day when the sun hasn’t found any break […]
What Fiction Can Do For Us
While at the RWA National Conference in New York at the end of June, I attended a media training workshop. The workshop concentrated on preparing yourself for interviews – particularly hostile interviews. The questions running through my head were: “Why do we have to defend our writing like this? Why is Romance under constant attack?” […]
Guest Blogging: 28 April 2011
I’ll be a guest at Four Foxes One Hound this coming Thursday, writing about how Wait a Lonely Lifetime developed from an idea to a soon-to-be-published novel. http://fourfoxesonehound.wordpress.com
Current Reads – April
The Long Good-Bye – Raymond Chandler. This is my introduction to Chandler’s novels and I’m hooked. I love it that I knew who the killer was before Philip Marlowe revealed the truth and why Terry Lennox did the noble thing. I’ve never been a fan of crime fiction, not since I read a P D […]
Books & More: Reviews & Comment
Books & More: Reviews & Comment Dipping into the Past to Read the Present, 13 Nov 2010 Lyonesse Abbey & Time at Tarragon, Jill Tattersall Now, this book was a revelation and sparked my interest in the romance genre. Lyonesse Abbey is gothic romance at its best. Fun and memorable.
Books & More: Reviews & Comment
Books & More: Reviews & Comment. Beauty and the Beast in Cactus Bend, 6 Nov 2010 When Love Comes, (Paperback) Leigh Greenwood Published April 2010, The Night Riders series – this will tug your heart-strings.