What do you Think?

I love getting a new book in the post. When your editor says ‘we’re buying the book’ and you have come down from your high, then you turn around and fill in the ‘art fact sheets’. This is the time you try and convey to everyone what your book is really about so that can be captured on the cover. This time they nailed it!

The Playboy Doctor’s Wedding Proposal is is the sister book to A Wedding in Warragurra and is Emily and Linton’s Story.  What do you think of the cover?

(the hardback is out in the UK in July 08 but there is a bit of a wait for the Paperback…october)

Name My Hero…please!

Book Eleven is slugging along at a snail pace but I have made it into chapter three and finally feel I am getting a handle on my characters. Sometimes one character is so real in your head and this time it is Kirby, my heroine.  This is how I picture her.  But my hero? The guy who is making Kirby melt into a puddle of lust every time she lays eyes on him, the guy who is making her question her new rule in life…no men…well he is giving ME grief.

First he started off as Fraser, then he was Mitchell for a while and now he is Matthew. Matthew feels closer but I’m still not sure it is right. My hero is recovering from a heavy duty illness but he is well now…a bit thin, but he has the body of a man who is all muscle. My hero is farming as part of a ‘tree-change’.  

So I needed more than a pretty face…I needed a man in his mid thirties who had seen some life. So today I found this model and I’m wondering if he might help me ‘capture’ my hero.  ANd if you have a name for me, I’m all ears!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Mini Break

                                                                         

Number One son had a four day mid term break so we went to Tasmania and had a lovely mini break. The weather was divine with blue skies and the night skies dazzled us with stars. We ate waffles and berries at Kate’s Berry Farm, we went beach combing, we rugged up in coats and huddled in the dark watching the Fairy Penguins come ashore and we played numerous hands of 500. It was a lovely relaxing time!

But now we’re back and that is the hard part – dealing with the mountain of washing that four days away seems to generate, ignoring the bad cold from the plane aiconditioning and trying to get to know Kirby and Mitchell, the new H&H in my new story. Not even sure he is Mitchell…

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos which are at the top when they should be here but hey, me and wordpress…always a mystery

Readers’ Vote!

Writing is a solitary occupation. You sit in your office and lose yourself in a fictional world which can give you grief as well as pleasure but the bottom line is you’re hoping a reader is going to pick up your book and read it cover to cover and love it.  Sometimes readers write to you telling you what they enjoyed about your story which is special.  Being chosen as a finalist in the Oklahoma RWA chapter’s National Readers Competition is really special!

Two Australian writing buddies of mine are in that situation! Annie West and Robyn Grady.

Annie West who writes for Harlequin Presents (Modern in UK, Sexy in Australia) says, “there’s a special reception for finalists at the San Fransisco conference. The idea of being invited to a reception there is very exciting as I sit here in my quiet little corner of Australia! The book is For the Sheikh’s Pleasure which was released in the US last August. It’s the second in a pair of linked books.”

And to give you a snap shot of this great book….

Will she surrender to the sheikh? Rosalie Winters is a challenge. Beautiful and aloof, she doesn’t play the games of flirtation and seduction that Sheikh Arik Kareem Ben Hassan expects from women. She intrigues him with her lack of sopistication and guile.

Arik realizes he must move slowly to gain her trust. Rosalie is quiet, even withdrawn, as though something has changed her. but Arik also knows that once she’s at his command Rosalie will welcome the loving that only he can give her…” 

 

 

 Robyn Grady’s debut book for Silhouette Desire, The Magnate’s Marriage Demand is also a finalist.

In name only?
Marriage and children played no part in Armand De Luca’s plans. Then the hard-driving tycoon learned he had to marry and have an heir or lose his company. When he discovered his late brtoher had fathered an unborn child, Armand saw the perfect opportunity.
 
But expectant mother Tamara Kendle was not at all sure she wanted any part of Armand, his millions, or his convenient marriage. And she was so desirable, he wasn’t sure this union could ever be strictly business.”

Congratulations to Annie and Robyn!