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save a horse
I'm back at the Contemporary Romance Cafe today, with a gratuitous cowboy butt shot: http://contemporaryromancecafe.com/cowboy-take-me-away/ There's lots of other exciting stuff coming soon - my first-ever cover reveal, a new title reveal for my holiday novella, and...
if at first you don’t succeed
Last spring, freshly returned from two weeks in Cape Town and the Western Cape, I stumbled upon an old documentary about the Special Task Force, the South African Police Service's answer to the SAS. The guys featured in the documentary were like human tanks. They went...
guest post – Romy Sommer
Whilst preparing for my ever-nearing move to South Africa, I stumbled upon ROSA, a local community of romance authors. The warm welcome and unfailing support I've gotten from this bunch has already been staggering, and one of the best introductions to my new home I...
the cafe
Once a month I'll be posting at Contemporary Romance Cafe, a fabulous blog of Carina Press authors that's chock-full of contemporary romance goodness. Check out my first post, on finding inspiration in the littlest...
my sophomore effort
After a long time spent sitting on my hands, I'm delighted to announce that my novella, Love at Last Sight, has been accepted for publication in one of the annual holiday anthologies compiled by Carina Press! This novella, about a wounded infantry officer returning...
select all + delete
I’m a huge fan of the NaNoWriMo project (National Novel Writing Month for the uninitiated), wherein one sets a goal to write a novel (defined as 50,000 words) in a month’s time. The original event is held in November, but there are also ‘Camp’ NaNoWriMo months in...
sometimes you feel like a nut
The Easter weekend – for which we get two public holidays in the UK – is always a phenomenally productive time for me, writing-wise. With my fiancé and most friends out of town for the holiday, it offers a great excuse to spend the whole day in front of the computer...
going native
I was moments away from drafting a post about the horrific weather we've been having in the UK this spring, when I noticed a massive article about it on the Guardian's homepage. Not only have the few weeks of wet, cold, and windy weather merited several inches of...
just now
By the time Sky finally transfers our broadband account to our new flat and switches it on, we will have lived there for almost three weeks. Having grown up with the instant-gratification expectations of most Americans my age, a few years ago three weeks without home...