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It’s awards season… We all know what that means – Hollywood on show. Gorgeous men in tailored suits, beautiful woman in fab frocks and far too much time spent on the internet looking at both. But Hollywood doesn’t have a monopoly on awards – there are book awards too. I write romance and women’s fiction…
With a bit of spare time during the holidays, I was able to catch up on some reading (not that my to be read pile seems any smaller). I tried to spread my wings a little and try some new authors as well as some old favourites. Here’s a selection that I thought you…
Whenever you get a group of writers together, at some point the conversation is going to swing round to the eternal debate – whether it is best to write in the first person or the third. To explain…. ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ This is the opening line of Daphne Du…
Everyone has heard of this classic HG Wells book – but not necessarily because of the book itself. This early sci fi tale is one of my favourites. It has stood the test of time – and of adaptation. Since its publication in 1897, it has never been out of print. I recently saw it…
Where did 2014 go? It seems like only yesterday I was preparing for the launch of two new books. So – 2015. Wow. My resolution – if you can call it that – is to release another two new books (both already written) and to write two more. And I promise you, they will be…
I have not sent a single Christmas Card this year … I would like to say it’s because I’m saving trees, being environmentally friendly and not giving in to the commercialism of the season. But to be honest – I have just been terribly disorganised this year. So – if I owe you a card…
Novelists don’t get out much. We spend a lot of our time on our writing place, talking to imaginary people in our head. So when we do get out and get to spend time with real people – we talk a lot. Or maybe I just talk a lot… My second week of Christmas was…
It’s that time of the year again – and for me, Christmas officially started with the Romantic Novelists’ Association London and South East chapter Christmas Lunch. Why? Because Christmas is all about family and friends. It’s about the people we care about – and the people who care about us. That’s who these people are…
Yesterday I broke a curse… well, kinda… As some of you know, I knit. And the dreaded pink thing is one of those projects that I think all knitters trip over from time to time – the project from hell! It’s taken me months… no… if I’m honest, years to get it right. But I know…
Accolades are pouring in for the movie The Imitation Game – featuring an amazing performance by Benedict Cumberbatch as the Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing. The movie has served to focus attention on Turing and his work at the secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. It’s also served to highlight the injustice…