Yes, yes, yes, this was supposed to be photos of Spain-Unfortunately, your techno-daffy friend has lost them – Shall try to retrieve for later post if DH remembers to return the camera – and I didn’t delete them… So many imponderables I’m surprised you’re still here- Okay, book 15 I did get a bit carried [...]

What’s this for? Why are we celebrating? Now you, know you didn’t forget to say, Susan – Tell the truth. DH forgot to bring home the camera! Yes, yes, let’s blame him… We’re celebrating minimus achieving an excellent result in her Law conversion course- Blimey – with all these lawyers in the family I really [...]

Here I am trying to concentrate when Thorntons choccies keep on mail-shotting me- Spam them? Are you mad???????????? A little of what you fancy does you good, remember. A gross of bears, please, nice Mrs Thornton- No need to wrap them I’ll eat them as they are Sxx

I am in awe. Watching Supernanny in action, I can only wonder how my children survived me and went on to become the people they have become… Okay- maybe when I heard myself referencing a hotel by saying, ‘Oh, yes, I know it- that’s the hotel Wiggy absailed down’ – or, ‘Yes, you pass the [...]

Writing as part of a team to create a fantasy country and a potential heir to a throne, was certainly something different… The problems were self-evident. How to create the alpha male readers love when I already knew he would not be the successful candidate? Give him another career- another life, and then add a [...]

I know it’s possible to do this in New Zealand, and maybe in several other countries too- Corsica is one I can think of- but the idea of snow sports and sea sports all within a short driving distance is seductive, and this is what I found in southern Spain. But in case I’m beginning [...]

Beach-lite My hero just stepped out of shot A Sue Stephens-size portion of paella The vivid colour in this desert golf course landscape in Spain is extraordinary…I feel a hero coming on More from my fabulous research trip to Spain soon- Sxxx

The idea firmly planted in my head when I started this book was how everyone evolves as they go through life. I wanted to explore the changes that might occur in an impressionable young girl from the moment she discover she is pregnant to the day, years later, when she is called on to help [...]

Well, that’s another one off my desk- and this book isn’t even contracted. But when you’re a compulsive writer you’re a compulsive writer- I know there’ll never be time to get all those stories down- but I have to try (someone should clear out those boxes of discs in the drawers in my study before [...]