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 …

Writing Craft

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 …

Australian 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 - …

One small dog…

Sometimes a character comes out of nowhere It was like that with Dora. I had recently been widowed, was living on my own for the first time in nearly fifty years and I had this completely out of character yearning for a dog. I'm not a dog person. I've always had cats as pets, but …

How to build a book…dogs included…

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm blogging at Liberta Books, my other home today, on how I built my latest book, The Billionaire's Convenient Bride. There are dogs! This is my muse, Dora the dachshund.