PONDERING: The London Book Fair

Tweet First things first. I stayed at a Travelodge. Hey, they’re clean, and you know exactly what you’re going to get. And if you check at Tripadvisor, you can pick the good ones. I picked a good one. The Waterloo Travelodge has been recently renovated and it has a...

PONDERING: Are Secret Baby Books Worth It?

Tweet One of the accusations frequently leveled at romance books is the amount of tropes we have. Things like secret babies and big misunderstandings. They crop up all over the place, but I’m not totally against them, because when they’re used properly they...

Do you enjoy series?

Tweet I have a problem and maybe you can help. I’m going to be appallingly frank, more than an author is supposed to be, but this is an unspoken problem common to many authors, and maybe they’ll chip in, too. I tend to write in series. I have Richard and Rose, the...

The New Mills and Boon Covers

Tweet The new Mills and Boon covers. I really wanted to avoid writing this, but I can’t. I was so pleased that Mills and Boon/Harlequin took criticism onboard and decided to revise the titles and covers of their category lines. In July, I went to the RNA Conference at...