Being Barbara Cartland
This article was a guest blog on the brilliant Chicks, Rogues and Scandal in June 2016 and can be viewed HERE in its original format...
Thank-you Mr Darcy...
I read my first romance novel somewhere around twelve, and from then on I was hooked. However, it took another thirty years for me to...
A Weak-Willed Woman's Guide to Buyers' Remorse
About five minutes ago I was sat on my sofa avidly listening to an impassioned sales pitch on QVC while I was eating my breakfast. “This...
7 Invaluable Things I have learned as a Debut Author…
The biggest dream of every aspiring writer is to be published. However, now I have a publishing contract, I realise it is not as easy as...
Erratic Breathing and the Steely Glare...
This article was originally written for, and published on, The Romance University http://romanceuniversity.org/2016/04/08/erratic-breathi...
How the smugglers helped shape the English language…
For most of us, our knowledge of smugglers in the 18th and 19th centuries comes from the stereotype we have seen on films and television....
I guess I'm an author now...
Since I was lucky enough to receive The Call from Harlequin Mills and Boon a few weeks ago, I have gone from an amateur writer to a...
21st Century Technology & the Crispy Prawn...
I really do try not to be useless. I am great believer in the old adage that change is good and that being able to adapt to change is a...
What ifs, Procrastination & the Obligatory Crisis of Confidence...
Being a writer is a strange thing. You live the majority of your day inside your own head, talking to yourself. Any person, not a writer,...
Regency Reformers, Radicals & Revolutionaries
As a lover and writer of Regency romances, it is easy to get swept away with Jane Austen’s view of that world, where ladies and gentlemen...
