It’s spring here in Sussex and, like Mole in Wind in the Willows, I am putting my head above ground and sniffing the warm, fresh air. Unlike him, I won’t be messing about in boats – I have history in that department – but my hive at Liberta are taking this moment, when we’re all being given…
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What books will Ella Hayes take to her desert island?
Ella Hayes put her career change down to a “mid-life moment”. After decades of hauling cameras about filming everything from moths mating to athletes competing in the 1993 Barcelona Paralympics, in 2017 she started a master’s degree in Writing Practice and Study at Dundee University. It was a wise decision as, in that same year…
Read MoreCuring the reading slump…
…with the Liberta Shorter Romance shortlist I have been in something of a reading slump for quite a while. To the point where even an autobuy sitting on my Kindle isn’t tempting me away from the comfort of old television series that I’ve seen before. But this week, Sophie Weston, who has had a vile…
Read MoreAustralian Romance Readers Association awards nominations….
…and yes, I’m on the list! I’m completely over the moon to announce that Christmas Reunion in Paris is in the Members Choice category of Favourite Christmas or Holiday Romances. This was the first book in a mini series based around the Harrington Park Hotel, and I’m doubly delighted, that James’ sister, Sally Harrington –…
Read MoreWelcome this month’s castaway, romance author Andrea Bolter…
…to my desert island. In a homage to the British radio programme, Desert Island Discs, which has been running for 70 years with guests as different as politicians, scientists, astronauts, actors, writers and musicians, and First Lady, Michelle Obama, – named by broadcasting experts as the “greatest radio programme of all time” – she’ll be…
Read MoreDonna Alward’s Desert Island Books
My castaway this month is… …bestselling author Donna Alward who, while she was busy studying Austen, Eliot and Shakespeare, she was also losing herself in the breath-taking stories created by romance novelists like LaVyrle Spencer and Judith McNaught. Several years after completing her degree she decided to write a romance of her own and it…
Read MoreHappy New Year
I imagine that the best that can be said of 2020 is that it’s over. Here’s hoping that the vaccine manages to bring the virus under control and we can get back together with family and friends. Stay safe, my friends. May the new year be good to you.
Read MoreTalking about the Holidays…
…well, no one ever expected this This year has been tough, no question. Whatever holiday is your special day has been hit hard. Just as those who suffered through Eid and Hannukah, many of you will not see your loved ones at this special time of the year. But that’s not the biggest thing we’ve…
Read MoreDeck the halls…
…well maybe not the halls… My holiday decorating has shrunk a little from the days when I had the big family house, with an impressive hall, in the wilds of Wales. Then I decked the beams, wound lights and garlands around the stairs and had a big tree loaded with decorations collected over many years.…
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving
Wishing a very happy, peaceful and healthy Thanksgiving to all my friends, colleagues and wonderful readers in the US. The day will be different, but the sentiment never changes.
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