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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I've been adding On Writing pages to my blog so that new writers, any writers, can read what I've had to say about writing over the years. Most of it is instilled in my Little Book of Writing Romance, but the latest, Blending Humour with Emotion isn't there. The links are at the top in …
Getting away... Writing is a solitary occupation. Most of the time, we sit at our desks and the most exciting stuff we do is research stuff on the internet. When does a wild flower bloom in the UK. (Hint, it won't the same time everywhere.) What butterflies lay their eggs on nettles? What plant will …
It all started with a koala... Making up stories of her own has always been one of Michelle’s passions. She received her first rejection letter at the age of ten for Keri the Koala Baby, and has been writing ever since. A love of literature led her to major in English at the University of …
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If you're struggling with that pesky start... .If you have so much that the reader needs to know before you get the good stuff, you may find my advice on dealing with backstory useful. Or for more about getting the first chapter down, there's Grabbing the Reader on the First Page . It's the …
Guest Blogging... I'm guest blogging over at Liberta Books, today about the ups and down of writing Christmas Reunion in Paris, and I'd love it if you could come and join me. Blog Tour Itinerary And the blogtour starts on Tuesday, October 13. I'm so excited!
Sixty years ago, a group of romantic novelists got together and set up an organisation to raise the status of their art. Since then, the Romantic Novelists' Association has worked tirelessly to support not just established authors, but new writers, with their amazing New Writers' Scheme which, over the years, has helped a huge number …
When Sophie Weston, Jessica Hart (Pamela Hartshorne), Anne McAllister and I looked around for a setting for our fictional Cotswold village for our Invitation to a Royal Wedding quartet, I immediately thought of Castle Combe - the prettiest village in England. Allegedly. (Other villages are also extremely pretty!) I'd had lunch at the Manor …
I guess most authors have a book in the bottom drawer that, for one reason or another didn't get published. There are as many reasons for this as there are books. The first, the big reason, is that for some reason your editor didn't quite take to it. As an inexperienced author you think she …
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