The good news arrived too late for Sunday's post, so I'm sharing it today... I have received the report from this year's RNA New...

It's the last day of the month and as of 4.30 am (BST) this morning, my submission to the RNA's New Writers' Scheme went in. N...

One week to go to my final deadline. Today (Sunday) I've done about seven hours at the keyboard- obviously I did get up to make coffee...

Two weeks to go and lots still to do. I've had a couple of days break, rewarding myself for all the words I've achieved by attendi...

I have one month to get my manuscript in to the RNA's New Writers' Scheme. Fortunately I can submit a partial if that's all that...

It's hard to believe that a week ago I was in Lancaster at the 2019 Conference of the Romantic Novelists Association. Apart from the r...

I can now reveal that my fun weekend (mentioned in my last blog post) was at the 2018 Romantic Novelists Conference at Leeds Trinity Univers...

Love has been very high profile this weekend with the marriage of the Queen's grandson Prince Harry to Meghan Markle at St. George's...

I'm catching up and getting back into a routine- slowly. Last week was very busy, as I was 50% of a talk given at Nottingham Writers...

February seems to be bringing lots of competitions, so here's another one you might like. It is Valentine's Day this coming Sunday...

Where has this year gone? In just over a month it will be Christmas again. I'm now a year older, but let's forget about that...:...

I've been having a down day on my writing. You know those times when you think your writing is awful and you can never improve it? Wel...

April seems to be the month for competition announcements. Following on from my Sunday post, about Choc Lit, there's now another oppor...

This opportunity, from book publisher Choc Lit, arrived in their regular e-newsletter today. My head is full of cold, so this post is very...

I'm roughly at mid-point in the first draft of my contemporary romance, and I'm now trying to get on with the post emotional scene (...

If you read my post about Awards Night early last month, you may recall that it was the announcement that I'd won the Nottingham Writers...

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. I'm not quite back into normal routine yet as all the family have been here, but this...

Now that Awards Night is over I can finally reveal that I won the Nottingham Writers' Club, Mary Street Memorial Shield for Romance Writ...

In the 30+ years I've been reading historical romance novels, there has been a lot of change. But...I don't believe the change has...

A couple of days ago I realised that I'd been blogging four years- where has that time gone? Persuaded by writer friends that I should...