I've had some lovely feedback on The Refusal from men. And I guess it surprised me, it shouldn't have done, but sometimes it's difficult...

Many famous authors (E.M Forster, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen) were born or have lived significant periods of their...

I'm proud to be an indie publisher. Throughout the centuries, writers such as Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Walt Whitman, and Virginia...

... What more could you want in life? My fellow romance author Debbie Cromack introduced me to the Australian Firefighters Calendar via...

The Wishing Shelf Awards were created for authors by an author. The awards were set up by Edward Trayer who became disillusioned with the...

Because I ran my own business for a long time, when I started writing romance, I knew I wanted a good amount of control over the whole...

What makes a good sex scene for you? Long and drawn out or fast and furious? Perhaps the interesting use of accoutrements (honey, rope,...

Los Angeles. Hmmm . . . movie industry, bright lights, famous actors, wannabes and scriptwriters . . . There's something about LA that...

In last week's post, I talked about finding notes from my kids, but also another set of notes that I found on the internet: notes to and...

The notes people leave or give to each other are like shining a light into the crevices and cracks of how we behave as people: Everything...

I meet with a group of friends in Edinburgh to ruminate over writing, actually write (if there is not too much gossip to be shared),...

I entered The Refusal for the prestigious Global Book Awards because I liked the idea that they would look at every aspect of the book,...

The Tech Boys Series revolves around a set of college friends who live in New York, so I was excited when restrictions lifted after COVID...

Another day, another award. Sigh. It's just so tedious how people keep giving The Refusal these things . . . hahaha. Being serious for a...

Another great joy of launching The Refusal was finding out what readers had to say. It was such a delight to see all their edits when...

I put The Refusal in for as many awards as I could find, expecting that the competition would be fierce and maybe I'd win something if I...

I am so thrilled to be a semi-finalist in the Indies Today 2021 book awards. Their book review for The Refusal is amazing too (see...

One of the joys of being involved in the bookish community on social media is exploring fun things to post, alongside promoting my books....

So I was scrolling down the page thinking . . . yeah, yeah, won't even have got placed. There's not even a romance section . . . there's...

One of the great joys of being on social media is all the amazing readers who get in touch. When @romance.novel.junkies (find her here)...