Thank you and Competition Results...

First I wanted to say thank you to all of you lovely people/friends who left comments to help me celebrate the second birthday of this blog last Thursday: Fiona, Patsy, Marion, Paula, Shirley, Rosemary, Debbie and Helen.

(Do visit their blogs/website, you'll find them interesting and useful.)

And to Anonymous who couldn't subscribe to my blog feed- I'll have a look into the problem and see if there's a resolution.

Now to the competition results- drum role...

The prize was for the person drawn out of the bag with the right answer to the question set and would win a copy of Jayne Castle's 'The Lost Night'.

This was the question: What is the name of the paranormal society that has featured in a number of the author's books?

The correct answer is, the Arcane Society.

Now as there were only two people who attempted to answer, Debbie and Helen, and both gave an understandable answer- the heroine of The Lost Night was raised in a Harmonic Enlightenment community, which was mentioned in the free to read first chapter on Amazon's Kindle.

So I decided that I would still make the draw between the two people who attempted to answer, and the winner's name is Debbie W.

So Debbie, please e-mail me at my blog e-mail address (on the sidebar) so I can arrange to send you the book. Congratulations.

Year 3 starts...

My Blog is 2 Years Old Today...

I started this blog on the 13th September 2010, and it's now 13th September 2012. Time sure passes quickly...

To celebrate I have a little competition to win a book- more later.

Since last September I've been busy.

I've entered a few outside competitions, sent off a story to Woman's Weekly- no rejection yet and it's been out just over three months. I won the Romance novel trophy at the writers' club in December. And in April I became Chairman of Nottingham Writers' Club (NWC).

In May I enjoyed a day long workshop on Writing Romantic Fiction led by Kate Walker, at NWC.

Even social media hasn't been safe from me. I joined Twitter earlier in the year, and in the last month, Facebook. (Contact details are in the sidebar.)



I've recently started using my new office area and can say it certainly has made my writing life easier. I have the phone by the computer so I can limit disruptions; and like this morning, when I was working on my novella, I could slide my chair a short distance over to the bookshelf and pluck the reference book I needed off the shelf to check something.

I don't know what year three will bring, but I'll be sharing the writing related aspects with you.

I appreciate everyone who takes the time to read my blog, and an especial thank you to all of you who leave comments.

Virtual birthday cake for everyone...

                        Image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Now to celebrate I have a copy of 'The Lost Night' by Jayne Castle (otherwise known as Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick) to give away. (Sorry, only to those within the UK postal system.) You can read the start of the Kindle version here.

Question: What is the name of the paranormal society that has featured in a number of the author's books?

Leave your answer in the comments and all correct entries will go into a bag and I will pick one out at random on Sunday, and announce the winner on Monday. Good luck.