Just for a bit of fun, here’s one of the blog posts I’m posting on the 21st of this month on The Romance Studio’s End of Summer Bash… Hello All! Welcome back! Here’s another excerpt… with Scotty, horses and sparks flying between Aleksandra and Xavier… ~ ~ ~ ‘Oh no, the Furs! And …
Hi everyone! I was invited to an interview with Cynthia Wolf, Historical Romance author extraordinaire! Click Here! Here’s the header on her lovely page! Come on by and learn a little about where I got interested in writing, how the series began, and some things about me you might not have known! Leave a comment …
Hello everyone! Today I’m blogging at not one, but two other sites, about New Zealand and a BEAUTIFUL place there, and how it happened that seeing the sign, and then the place, radically changed the ending of my third novel, A Sea of Green Unfolding! The first (because it was really yesterday) is at The Romance …
Hello All! I’m blogging right NOW on over at TRS, in the UK, so they should be waking up to it, at this link… The Romance Studio Blog– TRS Come on over and take a look! Please Share? Thanks so much! FOR any of YOU from Polska!!! Plenty of Polish bits, including my …
Hello All! Here’s a bit of the story from when Aleksandra and Xavier have just met… and clashed, just a little… 🙂 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She saw the men exchange glances over her head. ‘Aleksandra, is that safe? You know about the unrest between the Pah-Utes and the settlers’ army, don’t you?’ Xavier brushed his hair back from his face …
Hello All! A Long Trail Rolling is finally live. BUY LINKS: For those of you who have asked, here are the best buy links! Softcover: CreateSpace Ebooks: Smashwords Ebooks and paper: Amazon BOOK LAUNCH: Come along to our USA BOOK LAUNCH of A Long Trail Rolling! 14 January 2015 in Placerville, CA! please RSVP at Eventbrite: https://eventbrite.co.nz/event/15130485690/ Looking forward …
If you’ve ever met me in person….. (grinning sheepishly…), I probably don’t have to tell you how excited I am that NaNoWriMo (nanowrimo.org) starts this Saturday, 1 November. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, which happens every November. I’ve started a Facebook page for those who wish to be in a NaNo group and …
A big Thank You to Annie Featherstone, aka Sophia James, for mentoring me, my award for winning the Pacific Hearts Award. Thanks to Annie, A Long Trail Rolling is on its final edits, and the balance of The Hills of Gold Unchanging should be completed by end of November during NaNoWriMo! A Sea of Green …
Yes, you heard me right… I’ve given in… Some of my fantastic beta readers have told me things like….. “Too much has happened between A Long Trail Rolling and its Epilogue.” (Hmmm… I didn’t really think so, but your other comments were well-received, Kate…) Thanks, Kate L. Matt’s been a bit more blunt… “You need …
Here’s a post I wrote for Bethanne Strasser’s Through the Heart Shaped Glasses blog earlier this month. I thought some of you might appreciate it! What draws us to history? Is it the romance of a different time from our own? Is it what history can show us about ourselves? How we’re different from or …
It happened on the way to St Cath’s Faire, an SCA reenactment event, last Sunday near Clevedon. A massive change in the direction of my new novel, A Sea of Green Unfolding. It came to me while I drove past the Waihou River (Called the River Thames by Captain Cook when he first landed …
Hello All! Well, first day, I didn’t make my goal of 1700 words on the new novel I began on 1 November, A Sea of Green Unfolding, the sequel to Express Desired, wherein Aleksandra and Xavier are still reeling from the death of their first newborn child when they discover that they have lost Rancho …
A new signature, thanks to my son Elliot and his awesome skills with Photoshop! For NaNoWriMo! The new short synopsis… This sequel to Express Desired is about a young couple’s journey to adventure in the turbulent wilderness of 1861 New Zealand. Tragedy strikes in Aleksandra and Xavier’s newly found paradise on their California Rancho …
Today I began planning my new novel… It will be entitled…. A Sea of Green Unfolding A sequel to Express Desired, it will be about Aleksandra and Xavier’s journey to a new life and adventure in the turbulent wilderness of 1861 New Zealand. Plotting has begun today and the first 50K words …
Hello all, I am very pleased to announce that the manuscript for Express Desired is done! Hmmm… Let’s just say it it nice to see that I’m making progress in my writing skills… and finally implementing my new skills…. especially incorporating ‘showing’ vs ‘telling’, (and my critique partner will be so PLEASED) . It’s good to …