A Country Mouse Goes OutOut
It’s been a long three years since the last author party was held and even longer since I was able to attend. It’s a pretty hot ticket so you can guess how thrilled I was when the invite popped into my inbox. Yes, this country mouse was going to the Harper Collins Summer Party! The […]
North and South – going back to the very beginning
https://armitageauthors.wordpress.com/ I’m taking part in a conversation about the phenomenon that was North and South – and John Thornton! You can find it over at the lovely Armitage Authors Network. See link above. It makes me very nostalgic for those heady days. Mr Thornton was the inspiration for quite a few of my heroes – […]
Parties, Poppies and a Thames Cruise
http://poppies.hrp.org.uk/ This week I went along to the Romantic Novelists’ Association Winter Party. As the last train I could catch leaves at 8pm and the party doesn’t even begin until 6.30, this involves a mad cross-country drive and a two night stay with my Mum instead. It’s worth it though. It was especially so this time […]
Summer is finally here!
So sorry – haven’t blogged for ages. Have been trying to rewrite number 4 and it’s been like pulling teeth. Hopefully, I’m now nearing the finishing line. Then I can concentrate on The Big Project, as it’s known. I’ve been busy being sociable too. I had a wonderful, if exhausting, day at the Romantic Novelists’ […]
And another photo …
The lovely Dan, from Tread the Boards Theatre Company, with Phillipa Ashley and Georgia Hill.
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. […]