The Festival of Romance has opened the doors for authors to sign up to take part in the Festival in its second year. Following a successful debut last autumn in Hertfordshire, the Festival is moving a few miles north and to a town centre location in Bedford. "We want to take advantage of a variety of…

I am tremendously excited to share my great news with you today!  I'm still dancing around like a wild thing, but I think that's probably ok....  Sapphire Star Publishing--featured on Romantic Fiction Online recently in an EXCLUSIVE--have just signed my 'rock star romance', "Sophie's Turn."  You can imagine that I am over the moon!  And thus... I am shouting it from the rooftops. :-)

 …

Drum roll please - or perhaps that should be a skirl of bagpipes! My novel Highland Fling is launched today via my blog and is available on Amazon as an eBook. I'm having a little celebration and I'd love you to join me.

Pop over to my blog and you can download the first chapter absolutely free! Well, no one should leave a party without a little party bag, should they? You can scan my QR code or click the download button.…

The heroine of my romantic time-travel novels passes herself off as being in her mid-thirties whenever she journeys into the past. Because she travels from one hundred years in the future to centuries in the past, she has the benefit of all the modern treatments that make one look impossibly young. Therefore, no one she encounters in the past guesses that she's more of an age...well let's just say, my age. Lucky her, she never suffers from hot-flashes, they will have…

Romantic fiction readers and authors around the world have reacted angrily as it become clear yesterday that a plagiarist who goes by the pen names Kay Manning and Payton Bradshaw had not only plagiarized work by author Liz Fielding but a number of other authors. Romance stories by Julia Kenner, Catherine Mann, Marie Ferrarella, Gena Dalton were all discovered being sold online by Kay Manning/Payton…

Come join us and  UK Author Paula Martin for a celebration virtual barn dance and 'nosh up' for her novel 'Fragrance of violets' - one lucky commenter will win a download. Come join the fun - not your ordinary kind of blog!…

New Review for THE SIN EATER'S PRINCE, Vampire, Werewolves, Witches set in Historical Wales! From Manic Readers and The Romance Reviews 4.5 Stars!

Amazon KINDLE Read More Reviews Here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0079QQBCY

Also Available on AMAZON UK! …

"I am so, so, so thrilled," Jan Jones blogged after hearing that her novel The Kydd Inheritance had been shortlisted for one of this year's Romantic Novelists Association Awards (RoNAs). Her comments echoed the mood of many of the shortlisted authors. "Absolutely thrilled," wrote Jean Fullerton on her blog at the news that her novel Perhaps Tomorrow had been…

Okay, blatant self-promotion here. It's my blog I can do what I like! You've been warned! Read with caution, you really might want to buy this book at the end of this post!

Now, A Noble Place in a nutshell:

1850s

Pippa, strong, determined is eager to make her mark on the…

I have so many giveaways going on right now I decided to tell everyone in this one post so you can pick which ones you would like to enter. Some are international some are US only, but all are fabulous :) Click the pictures to enter!!! And please spread the word!

Win a paperback copy of this new Sci-Fi YA! US and Canada…

In the 1950s one couldn't buy a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the UK. In the 1920s if one wanted a copy of The Well of Loneliness you had to go to Paris to buy it. Censorship in the UK laid down very strict rules on what was and was not suitable matter for publication. Those days are over, thank goodness. Authors in all genres can explore subjects that were taboo only a few years ago and the body of literature is much richer for that freedom. 

Nobody wants to return to those…

An American blogger has landed her first book deal with erotic fiction publisher Xcite Books after winning a competition to find new talent. Xcite Books launched its first ever writing contest at the Festival of Romance in the UK last October in the hope of finding a writer and book that embodied the spirit of erotic…

Women's fiction and chick lit website Novelicious has teamed up with two leading publishers and a literary agent to launch today a brand new writing competition,…

Hi Everyone .

I have been fairly quiet lately after breaking my arm in two places just four weeks before the release date of my first novel. Needless to say it was a rotten start to 2012.  Being unable to use a keyboard just when you are caught up in a frenzy of editing is really frustrating.

Anyway, I am up and running now and looking forward to…

The Sin Eater's Prince

Gay Fiction/Vampire

Check here on Kindle US: (UK is a day or two later): KINDLE

About The Sin Eater's Prince

Owen Rhys, the sin eater, has been shunned by the local villagers all his life--except for Andras Maddock, the local physician. In love with the one man he believes will never return that love, Owen is shocked when Andras saves him from death at the hands of a…

Can't believe I did it, but I hit the best-seller list at Amazon and reached the top twenty on Friday night. Whoa... Sales of my newbie Regency Romance & Murder Mystery soared! Hee hee, going down now: as the bellboy says... But hey, it was good while it lasted and sales are back to ticking along nicely. I really don't get it, because I haven't asked for reviews, have only had but a few on the first novel I posted to Kindle and still I can make it into the top twenty in Amazon's…

Named after one of the founder's late grandmother's favourite jewels, publisher Sapphire Star Publishing LLC has launched and is looking to publish all genres of fiction including YA. The full service publisher based in the US has already acquired a number of books…