Today sees publication of my new novel, Dream a Little Dream, which, I'm proud to say, has been shortlisted for the Best Romantic Read Award 2012 at the Festival of Romance. I'm hosting a blogathon on my blog (good place for a blogathon, wouldn't you say?) and loads of lovely writers, friends and broadcasters will be helping me celebrate by posting about their dreams, either sleep-time or aspirational, and there will be a few giveaways, too.

But, as it's my blog, I'm kicking…

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Hope that it's OK for me to post this, here, but it's a great comp, just right for writers of romantic fiction. And who can resist the lure of money and chocolate?

 

 

Choc Lit are looking for short stories of up to 1,500 words in which the central theme is chocolate – eating it, drinking it, cooking with it, or anything else. Let your imagination take…

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Great blog by Jenny Barden today at http://ning.it/uDB0HV on how the awards at the Festival were judged. I really enjoyed the peek behind the scenes.

I'm a member of the Australian Romance Readers' Association and the secretary, Debbie, has been in touch with me to ask if I'd write a wrap piece about the Festival of Romance for their November newsletter. 

 

I've said yes, of course, because it's great to make other countries aware of who we are and what we do (and Love & Freedom has just come out in Australia ...). But I think it's great that this approach came to me completely unsolicited. Debbie stumbled across the…

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What is 'it'? 

Chemistry? Biology? Tension? Lust? Love?

All of the above?

What I'm talking about is the zinnnnnggggg! of attraction, when girl sees boy and something about him calls to something in her. And, happily for the continuance of the human race and its love life, there's an enormous variety of things that 'it' can be. 

For me, it's often in the smile. A nice smile, a wicked smile, a naughty twinkle ... I think that naughty must appeal to me on…

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