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Saved my blogging until Tuesday this week to coincide with the announcement of the contenders for this year’s Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award. The list includes little me!!!! Fellow Choc Lit authors Lynda Stacey and Victoria Cornwall are contenders too, so I’m sure we will have a fun time on 18 May 2017 in London,… Continue reading Exciting News

My blog guest this time is fellow Choc Lit author, Sheryl Browne. She writes edgy, sexy contemporary fiction and psychological thrillers. A member of the Crime Writers’ Association, Romantic Novelists’ Association and awarded a Red Ribbon by The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, Sheryl has several books published and two short stories in Birmingham City University anthologies, where… Continue reading Spotlight on Guest Author Sheryl Browne

I recently visited the Powerscourt Estate near Dublin and discovered a new favourite place. I love the Avoca café’s in Ireland and that was what initially drew me to the location, but the gardens and the views are superb. The house was commissioned in 1730 by the 1st Viscount Powerscourt and a 68-roomed mansion was… Continue reading Delight in New Places

Jane Lovering, another Choc Lit author, joins me on the blog this week. Her latest novel, The Little Teashop of Horrors was published on 26 March 2017. Jane has been a published author of romantic comedies since 2008. Her novel ‘Please Don’t Stop the Music’ won Romantic Novel of the Year in 2012 and Best… Continue reading Spotlight on Guest Author Jane Lovering

This week I decided to do a shout out for meeting up with like-minded people. It doesn’t really matter where your interests lie, you cannot underestimate the value of conversing with people who share the same interest. On Saturday, I attended the Romantic Novelists’ Association Birmingham Chapter meeting. This meeting is for people in the association… Continue reading Birds of a Feather

I’ve been answering blog questions on numerous sites for a while now and thought I would share a selection of my favourite questions with you today, just in case you missed them. Where do I get my inspiration? Inspiration is a strange thing. I find if I’m looking for it, I don’t necessarily find it,… Continue reading Favourite Blog Questions

My blog guest this week is fellow Choc Lit author Clare Chase. Clare writes mysteries set in London and Cambridge featuring crime-solving couples. She fell in love with the capital as a student, living in the rather cushy surroundings of Hampstead in what was then a campus college of London University. (It’s currently being turned… Continue reading Sp0tlight on Guest Author Clare Chase

When I was working towards publication, I used to think it very strange that authors referred to their books as their book babies. Now that I am published I understand… It is easy to compare the writing and editing phase of writing a novel to being pregnant. You also choose the nursery furniture and baby’s… Continue reading Giving Birth to a Book Baby

Fellow Choc Lit author, Kirsty Ferry joined me for a Spotlight on Guest Author blog on 29 August 2016. Today, she returns with news of a new book – The Girl in the Photograph. Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 with the… Continue reading Returning the Spotlight to Choc Lit Author Kirsty Ferry

This week I’m joined by fellow Choc Lit author Evonne Wareham. Welcome, Evonne. Evonne writes romantic thrillers – known in the States as romantic suspense – and her books have won and been nominated for awards on both sides of the Atlantic. Most notably, her first published novel, Never Coming Home, won the Joan Hessayon award… Continue reading Spotlight on Guest Author Evonne Wareham