The lost art of letter writing
Valentine’s Day still has me thinking… … about the lost art of letter writing. It was sparked off by a line in Christina Jones’s book Moonshine. The sixteen year old Elvi is hopelessly lost in first love and can’t text her beloved for fear of having her phone confiscated. How she longs to contact her […]
What the RNA had to say …
“Fresh, lively and humorous.” So said the Romantic Novelists’ Association about Pursued by Love. That’ll do for me! For the full quote, visit the Reviews page.
Close – but no cigar!
Well readers, this country mouse went up to the Big Smoke to attend the Romantic Novelists’ Association Summer Party to hear the winner of the Joan Hessayon New Writers’ Award announced. Sad to report that it wasn’t me but very glad to say it went to Lucy King for her book Bought: Damsel in Distress. […]
The peculiar art of self-publicity
You know the funniest thing about this writing lark is all the stuff that comes with it … I’m still having trouble acknowledging that I’m a writer. I find it very hard to say ‘I write books.’ Harder still is to take in the news that Pursued by Love has been nominated for the Romantic […]
Anyone for ‘cheap’ music?
‘Extraordinary how potent cheap music is,’ said Amanda in Private Lives (a production of which, starring Matthew MacFadyen and Kim Cattrall, has just closed at The Vaudeville Theatre). Extraordinary indeed. I love my early evening Saturday night telly. It’s one time in the week when I know I can settle down and relax. Don’t mind […]
