Ten things about me you may or may not know

It seems like forever since I originated a post for my own blog. I’ve reblogged a couple of things but haven’t managed a new post. Here’s my list of excuses:

• Summer is my busy time as I’ve led courses in Italy (Arte Umbria), Derby (Swanwick) and Devon (Fiction on the Taw). A fact about running courses is that there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work, not just preparing the course but being in contact with organisers for admin reasons and perhaps reading work of the participants.
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  Proof copies of The Christmas Promise have arrived!

  The Christmas Promise approached production and I had proofs to check bonus material to write  and promo ideas to talk over. One of the many lovely aspects of being an author.

• I also took a holiday in my beloved Malta. I had beer to drink and sunshine to enjoy. That took two weeks.
• I received a lovely invitation to write a two-part story for My Weekly to go in their Christmas issues (3 and 10 December. Look out for that story because you can win a free book!).
• Throw in the RNA’s conference in the middle of that lot and you begin to get the picture.

Now I’ve realised how much I’ve neglected my blog I can’t really think what to write about! Whenever I’m asked to guest on someone else’s blog I can think of a subject but for my own blog? I’ve come up blank. So, in place of a proper post, here are ten things about me you may or may not know.

1. My parents were both in the army. My mum originally outranked my dad and he got in trouble for talking to her with his hands in his pockets. He only rose higher than her when she left the army.
2. I can’t ride a bike no-handed.
3. I have no tattoos but five piercings.
4. Chocolate is my favourite food group.
5. My Saturday job when a teenager was in a butcher’s shop.
6. I can do the ‘waterfall’ with a pack of cards.
7. I find it hard to join in conversations about TV because I watch so little.
8. But I know a lot about Formula 1.
9. I’m incredibly thankful for good friends.
10. I try only to read books I love. Life’s too short for those I’m told I ‘should’ read.

Blogpost done! 🙂

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Research: Sue shares her methods

From the Take Five Authors site – my thoughts on research and my methods.

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I love the research connected to my books. Research trips for The Christmas Promise took me repeatedly to London – Camden (including cafes that sold great cake and shops that sold incredible shoes), Balham, and an exhibition of graphic art at the British Library. My next book, due out next summer and currently bearing the working title of Just for the Holidays, necessitated (yes, truly necessitated) a four-day trip to Strasbourg and a helicopter pilot taking me up and pretending to crash (read about it here). The helicopter event is  my happiest research moment to date.

The book I’m just beginning to plan, which currently has the snappy title of My Next Book, is causing me to watch a lot of property programmes and learn about being an interior decorator. (Fun, but nothing on the helicopter.)

As people frequently ask me about my research (‘You went…

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#Bookreview – The Wedding Proposal Sue Moorcroft #Romance

Thanks to Suzanne of Visions of Zarua for this fantastic review of The Wedding Proposal. 🙂 I love to share my love of Malta, too.

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The Wedding Proposal by Sue Moorcroft.

Genre: Romance

Blurb

Elle Jamieson is a private person, in relationships as well as at work – and for good reason. But then she’s made redundant and with no ties to hold her, Elle heads off to sunny Malta.

Lucas Rose hates secrets – he prides himself on his ability to lay his cards on the table and he expects nothing less in return. He’s furious when his summer working as a divemaster is interrupted by the arrival of Elle, his ex, all thanks to his Uncle Simon’s misguided attempts at matchmaking.

Forced to live in close proximity, it’s hard to ignore what they had shared before Lucas’s wedding proposal scared Elle away. But then a phone call from England allows Lucas a rare glimpse of the true Elle. Can he deal with Elle’s closely guarded past when it finally comes to light?

My…

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