It's a Bank Holiday here in the UK this weekend and traditionally that means it will pour with rain but fear not. Download His Desert Rose #free at Amazon this weekend and you will sizzle in the heat as first Prince Hassan kidnaps journalist Rose Fenton to prevent her from being used by a Regent who is …
It’s party time!
Gosh, what a roller-coaster of a ride I've been on since Murder Among the Roses was released last month. It started with a blog tour and the book shot up to No 1 in Noir Crime on Amazon with a lovely Bestseller flag. And it was a "Hot New Release" surrounded by Richard Osman. And …
Promoting a new book…
...or a new genre! With a new book - in a new genre - I have written a blog on the Liberta Books blog on a subject very close to every author's heart. Here's a quote from the latest issue of The Bookseller, which sets out the problem -- “One of my first bosses in …
Found in a Bookshop Blog Tour
Found in a Bookshop I'm delighted to be asked by Headline to take part in the blog tour for Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland. I absolutely loved Stephanie's first book, Lost for Words (which I found when looking for books set in bookshops). It was so good that I did something unusual and …
The reviews are in!
What a week! My goodness it has been the most exciting week. Having changed direction, writing crime rather than romance, I didn't know what to expect, but it has been incredible. Number 1 in Noir Crime in the US! It started with the gorgeous video from Joffe, my publisher. That moment when the rose crumples... goosebumps! …
Release Day!
It's finally here! It has been a long journey since I made the decision to write the crime novel, my book of the heart, that had been in my head for many years. I had to look back at my files to find out exactly when I started and was quite shocked to discover that …
Do you review?
It's getting exciting! The pre-order links are live on Amazon, the book is up on Netgalley and the reviews are starting to come in on Goodreads! If you're a reviewer, get in touch and I'll sort out an ARC for you. Reviews Everyone knows that it's a mistake to read your reviews, but I stumbled …
Free book!
A Royal Wedding A while I ago, at the invitation of Tule Books, I got together with three writing friends and we wrote a quartet of books set around a royal wedding. It began with emails flying back and forth as we decided on locations. The much travelled Sophie Weston found us the perfect spot …
My big news…
The Maybridge Mysteries I've had to hang onto this news for months while my new publisher, Joffe Books, put together a title and cover for the first of my Maybridge Mysteries. It's set in the ancient fictional Cotswold town of Maybridge, which many of my regular readers will know, and features garden designer and very …
What do writers do when they’re not writing?
Well, obviously they do all the things that other people do. They cook, they clean, they go shopping and they watch television. Tangled plots are frequently unravelled over an ironing board. The contents of the cleaning cupboard can provide ideas for murder. And television documentaries are an endless source of ideas. My next book, published …
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