Some people can never get enough of a good thing – so come and see me in New York next year at the RWA conference. This is such a brilliant event – don’t deny yourself the pleasure. Hundreds of authors – hundreds of readers – dozens of publishers and editors and agents and other industry [...]

stretches much further than the small town of Haworth. The church where Patrick Bronte used to preach is quite some distance away, in fact But this is the country that inspired those wonderful books – and, no doubt, those wonderful sermons. The Yorkshire moors on top of the Pennines – the backbone of England – [...]

Yes, I know – only a mother could get away with a heading like that… 100km in 3.55 uphill – and I mean uphill – well done sprog Who’d a’ thought that the woman who believes in preserving her body by never using it would produce such relentlessly sporty children!! Major congratulations to all the [...]

Not only was I feasting on frienship at the AMBA meeting, but I have just heard from a really good friend who shared the M.A. course in Music with me some years back – and who was also kind enough to be my wonderfully talented accompanist at my final MA recital. Hello Anne – so [...]

Yesterday was the annual meeting of AMBA The Mills and Boon authors gathering in London. On the train home I started thinking how we transform ourselves to fit certain circumstances – It’s never too soon to introduce children to animals, to teach them respect and love and care – along with all the fun they [...]

Jilly Cooper – but we already knew that. How excited, btw, are we devoted fans to know that we have a new book, imaginitively entitled JUMP! to look forward to – I have already pre-ordered my copy and am in the process of loading all JC’s books onto my new Kindle. Stieg Larsson… We already [...]

And so I had to re-write the second half of my book – Honestly, when I think it took me 18 months to write my first book And this next book has to be in on Monday – How was I to know someone was going to set the barn on fire? Yes, yes, a [...]