Holidays!

   Right now as I organise four people to pack I have chest pain BUT tomorrow when the holiday starts I am so looking forward to tuning out from my everyday world and exploring a new one.

I’m off to the North of Australia… to Darwin and Kakadu and Bathurst Island. I’ve never gone away on holidays in the middle of a book so it will be interesting leaving Emily and Linton behind for a while. I have to open myself up to a new story set in the Northern Territory so I am ready to write it come September. I hope I don’t get all my characters jumbled up in my head!

CU in a few weeks!

My First Man!

Oh happy day!

When I walked up the drive this morning all rosy cheeked after a brisk walk to school in the freezing weather, I saw a little brown box on the front porch. Oooh! Books!

Yes, I have the Hard-covers for A Woman To Belong To… aka the Vietnam book! (paperback out in Nov/Dec)

For those of you who follow this blog you might recall that after five books I am yet to have a man on any of the covers Things just changed!

I have a man. A rather lovely, olive skinned, dark haired man

There is a scene in the book where Bec and Tom are sitting on the beach cooking their dinner over an open a fire at sunset. The cover is Bec and Tom on the beach cuddled up together.

So what do you think of my first man? I’d love to hear.

Getting into Character

It’s cold and I’ve spent the weekend getting around in my jeans, my Aaron jumper and my RM Williams boots.

Every time I pull on my books I find myself thinking about Emily, the heroine of my current book. Raised on a sheep and cattle station in north central NSW, the Australian outback, she can muster cattle, drench sheep and shoot pool with the best of them. Raised by a father and four brothers, she hasn’t really had a lot of time to be a girly-girl or even been allowed to be one. She found being ‘one of the lads’ was the easiest way to get by. But life is getting complicated now she’s met Linton. She’s always been everyone’s mate but being Linton’s friend is causing her a lot of grief.

Putting on my boots helps me get into the groove of writing outback books. It is so very cold here today though that perhaps I should think about writing a Sheik book and turn the heater up to 38C! and warm up

Twenty-Four Hours

I’ve just had twenty four hours in the ‘big smoke’. I love Melbourne CBD and I was lucky enough to be staying at the Grand Hyatt. Our room overlooked the Yarra. We could see the Rowing Sheds and the Sunday rowers as well as the MCG, the tennis centre, the Cirque de Soleil tent and the big ferris wheel which blinked and shimmered after dark. We walked down the hill the the Ian Potter Gallery and visited the Australian Impressionists Exhibition. Just glorious – made me all teary-eyed looking at the Australian bush I love so much:-). To see so many of my favourite paintings in the one place was very special.

It was a lovely relaxing interlude for DH and I before catching up with the children again. We went from quiet and contemplative to watching the swashbuckling action of Pirates of the Carribean 3! How did you spend your weekend?

 

 

 

 

 

New UK Covers!

The French Doctor’s Midwife Bride is now available on line at Mills and Boon UK

Read all about this book, the back story and see photos at my website

The UK books have had a makeover and the green has been replaced by blue and the picture is bigger. What do you think?