A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to draw on my (too many) years as a broadcast journalist to offer some tips on how to make the most out of those rare opportunities to talk about our writing on TV or Radio. I thought I would share some top tips with you here…
There’s been a bit of excitement in my house this week…. and a very warm and fuzzy feeling for the US state of Colorado. The reason – The Wild One is a finalist in the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence. Excellence! What a truly… um… excellent word that is. I’m having a bit of…
I never throw away anything I write. Even if it’s terrible. It’s not just because I am a pack rat and have trouble throwing anything away (although I am and I do- as testified to by my messy office). It’s because there’s no such thing as a bad idea. A bad idea is just an…
Writing is a fairly solitary occupation – well, depending on your definition of solitary. I do spend a lot of time sitting at my desk talking to imaginary people in my head. When I put it like that, it does sound a bit strange – but you know what I mean (I hope). But this…
This week saw the annual Romantic Novelist Association Awards – the RoNAS. It’s THE event of the year for a lot of us. A time when the RNA honours the best of the best. As always, I was one of the workers… which means I was so frantically busy, I didn’t get to talk to…
It seems only fitting that on Valentine’s Day, I should do a blog devoted to Romance – ah, but not just any romance. This is all about my love affair with books – specifically books about relationships and love, because after all our relationships with other people are the most important part of our lives.…
I stepped back in time a little this week – back to my days as a journalist when I was doing radio news reports. But this time – I was on the other side of the microphone. Some of my writer chums and I went over to Radio Marlow FM to talk about writing romantic…
I remember as a child being chastised by my teachers for using made up words. If it wasn’t a ‘real’ word, I wasn’t allowed to use it in my school work. To be fair, those teachers were trying to give me the kind of education that would allow me to make a living when I…