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Addiction to romance novels is a thing – and science proves it!
freedigitalphotos.net / Stuart Miles Last week I was at the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association conference, and there was plenty going on – old friends to meet up with, cyber friends to get to know...
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Good to meet you…author Beverley Eikli
My guest today has come all the way from Down Under. Normally when my Australian friends and family visit me in northern England they often mention the cold, but luckily today has been one of the...
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A man’s world? The lot of the heroine in contemporary romance
At the Romantic Novelists’ Association Conference last week I attended a seminar entitled Universal Elements of Romance Fiction, hosted by Catherine LaRoche. Woman taking debit card. Is this romance?...
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Good to meet you…author Renee Charles
Today’s been another lovely summer’s day. We’ve had brilliant weather all July, and the roses in my garden have great, heady blooms. Their scent is gorgeous, too, and it’s the perfect place to sit with...
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My contemporary romance A Way from Heart to Heart is released…today!
Today my contemporary romance, A Way from Heart to Heart, is released by Accent Press – hooray! After all the hours of planning and thinking and agonising about my characters, I can’t tell you how...
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A Christmas recipe for real Italian Pizzelles, with author M.L. Guida
It’s great to welcome author M.L. Guida today with another delicious recipe for the holidays – this time all the way from Italy. Magnifico! M.L. Guida is one of the contributors to our Bake, Love,...
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#Romance15: an online weekend Romance Festival for authors, readers and...
This weekend is the second virtual Romance Festival organised by Harper Collins and Mills and Boon (Harlequin). The event begins at 2pm on Saturday (UK time) and runs all day Sunday. The organisers...
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Author Marie Laval’s recipe for Provençal romantic suspense
Hebden Bridge – great spot to talk romance! Today author Marie Laval returns to my blog to give us the ingredients for a great romantic suspense. Marie was one of my first visitors ever – you can find...
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My favourite interview questions
If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know every Tuesday I interview an author. We generally sit and have a chat over a pot of tea by the fire, or, if the weather’s warm, we head outside to my back...
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Good to meet you…author Linda Chamberlain
It seems a long while since I started one of my interviews in an upbeat fashion. Since last week the weather has actually taken a turn for the worse, and it’s now even colder. Not only that, Bradford...
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A fresh take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream #midsummerdreams
Today is the release of Alison May’s novel, Midsummer Dreams, a delightful take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Besides writing a fresh take on Shakespeare, Alison has come up with a fresh...
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Good to meet you…author Deirdre Palmer
Deirdre Palmer has travelled all the way from the south coast to be with me in Yorkshire, and today’s a landmark day for me because Deirdre is the first person called Deirdre I’ve ever actually met....
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Jill Barry’s Crazy Days of Christmas, plus a scrumptious recipe for trifle
Well, the weather outside really is frightful, but sadly not in a “Let It Snow” sort of a way. It has rained and rained and rained. Thanks very much to my guest today, Jill Barry, for taking a break...
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The importance of setting in a romance novel, with author Jennifer Young
I’m chuffed to welcome back Scottish author Jennifer Young today. Jennifer is a fellow member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and she came to my blog last year (you can read her interview...
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How conflict can be understated, plus a #FREE romance novella
Another month – and another Round Robin already! This month the topic is “Confrontation creates powerful drama. Use one scene you’ve written (published or not) that shows confrontation between...
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Have your romance novel title in print…and win a lovely prize!
If you’ve followed my blog for a while you’ll know that over the past year I published two romantic suspense novellas – Palace of Deception and The Scottish Diamond. I’m planning to combine these two...
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Are romance writers devaluing their work with free and discounted books?
What do you think about free and discounted ebooks? Do you have hundreds of them on your ereader that you never read? Would you sign up to someone’s newsletter just to get a free book? Or do you think,...
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