10 Questions To Get To The End
COLUMN FOR LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE Romance writers get to play with plenty of fabulous words – for example, ‘I love you’, ‘I want you’,...
My Writing Year in Review
It's that time of year when I stop and reflect on what's happened in my life over the past 12 months. For a writer, the big news is...
Brand Power - Helping You Buy Better
LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE COLUMN I am a great believer in brand power – that unique promise that differentiates one product from another....
Write What You Know, Write What You Don't - Just Make It Good
PINK HEART SOCIETY COLUMN A recent conversation on one of the romance fiction industry Facebook pages I follow got me thinking about the...
It's November, So Break Out The Wine
My life changed in 2013. That was the year I finally landed my dream job as a romance author, after what felt like a thousand years of...
Poldark: The Joy and the Terror of Series Reading
PINK HEART SOCIETY COLUMN I’m prefacing this column with a my nutshell view of the good and the bad of reading a book series – and by...
Playing Dress-Ups Is Not Just for Children
LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE COLUMN I don't like fancy dress parties. Okay – that is not strictly true. I actually love seeing the...
The Joy of 'I' - writing in the first person
THIS FIRST APPEARED AS PART OF AN ARTICLE ON FIRST PERSON/THIRD PERSON WRITING IN HEARTS TALK, THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE ROMANCE...
Fred...Ginger...Avril...?
PINK HEART SOCIETY COLUMN The last job I had in Australia was for an ASX 100 company. Despite its considerable importance in the business...
Colour Me Happy
LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE COLUMN I love experimenting with hair colour. It might have been different if I’d been born with honey blonde...