December 22, 2009
Love Writing
Here’s my first ‘how to’ book! Publication date is actually 4th January but it has gone live on Amazon already and Accent are sending it out.
If you’re interested in any of Accent Press’s range of writing books they’re on offer at the moment. Click here and enjoy their 3 for 2 bargain.
I was going to post a picture of my garden in the snow, too … but I guess most of you have snow of your own! And mine’s no different – white and crunchy and a pain in the proverbial.
But I will wish you all a peaceful and prosperous new year.
December 11, 2009
For a cracking review of STARTING OVER, click on the image. I was SO pleased!
November 24, 2009
STARTING OVER has received a lovely review from Judy Jarvie at her bright and interesting blog at http://judyj.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Judy!
If you’d like to see the YouTube presentation that goes with the book, it’s at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P68uC3d6nHc – my son wrote and played the music.
November 23, 2009
I look abashed to be standing there, don’t I? The W H Smith shop on the lower level of St Pancras Station is not the largest in the world but I just about made enough space to have my photo taken with STARTING OVER showing in the chart AT NUMBER 12!
But I look as if I feel slightly foolish for doing it …
Had a great few days in London, including two parties and Choc Lit presenting me with a bottle of champagne and a lovely big bar of Cadbury’s chocolate! Could also put up loads of stuff about cruising along the Thames, climbing around inside Tower Bridge and watching a string quintet in Covent Garden. But am just focusing on STARTING OVER being on the shelves …
Ooh! All excited ...
November 23, 2009
Cheers!
On Wednesday evening, we had a book launch for LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT at the Cavalry and Guards club, Piccadilly. Here are the authors of the fabulous stories in the anthology.
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
I had to give a speech. Most of the photos from that made me look like my granny – but this one isn’t too bad.
Clinging to my champagne
Thanks to all the contributors and to Mira Books, especially Cath Burke for being so unflappable and easy to work with.
Like this photo by Roy Connelly:
October 30, 2009
Chocolate Box
I’m indebted to my mate Jan Jones for this picture of something new to me in chocolate – and I didn’t think there were many!
This is a dessert called The Chocolate Box from the Galleria Restaurant by the river in Cambridge. The outer casing is a light sponge and the inside is filled with chocolate mousse and caramel. I had to give the blob of cream away, as cream is yuk, to me. But the rest was just sublime …
Choc Lit, who are publishing STARTING OVER on November 30th, ask for all their heroes to be likened to chocolate. Miles Rattenbury is a Lion Bar because he’s spiky and roars a bit. Now I’m working ALL THAT MULLARKEY and finding myself wondering what kind of chocolate I’ll choose for Justin. Can’t, offhand, think of chocolate that equates to a mercurial temperament that’s usually set to ‘laughing’ but does take dives in the other direction.
Do feel free to leave suggestions!
October 20, 2009
Yesterday, Midas Books put on a great lunch in Soho House for journalists from women’s monthly magazines to launch the anthology written by members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association to celebrate the Association’s fiftieth anniversary, LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT. As you can see, it’s a handsome volume.
And I might be biased but I think it contains some fabulous stories – 44 of them, in fact.
It was a great lunch – any lunch featuring chocolate brownies has my vote – and terrific company. I sat between Cath Burke, the editor at Mira who has nursed the project through with unflappable enthusiasm, and Fanny Blake from Woman and Home magazine and across the table from Victoria Gallagher, book news editor of The Bookseller.
Katie Fforde, the RNA’s chairman, Adele Parks and Judy Astley represented the contributors to LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT. A few of us went on to celebrate with a further glass of wine – blagging our way into a part of the club that is for members only – and rounded the day off as we British must, with a pot of tea.
No more brownies, though. Curses.
Judy Astley, Katie Fforde and Adele Parks
Katie's speech
Cheers, Judy!
September 19, 2009
Here it is! This is the cover for Starting Over and I love it.
It will be published on 30 November 2009 but you can download the first chapter for free here at the Choc Lit site.
Starting Over
Choc Lit have received some cracking feedback from their readers and I hope that everyone who reads it will enjoy it just as much.
It’s a book that I loved writing.
I just have to finish my final polish of LOVE WRITING and then I can begin on the next novel, tentatively scheduled for next summer …
August 26, 2009
THE BLOG GOES LIVE!
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Saga writer Anna Jacobs has launched the Loves Me, Loves Me Not blog!
www.rnaanthology.blogspot.com/
Anna Jacobs is always worth reading, whether she’s writing sagas, sci-fi – or blogs.
August 16, 2009
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
This fabulous anthology of fabulous stories from fabulous authors is ‘my baby’, as I am its editor.
It’s a collection to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Romantic Novelists’ Association in 2010.
Lots of your favourite authors are in there: Katie Fforde, Joanna Trollope, Adele Parks, Carole Matthews, Judy Astley, Benita Brown, Anna Jacobs, me and loads more. There are 44 brilliant short stories.
It would make a great Christmas present!
And here are the first three contributors with their copies: me, Jan Jones and Louise Allen.
Sue Moorcroft, Jan Jones and Louise Allen
