Hi Marie, hope you had a great holiday! Good to get to meet you here as well as at Muse. Good luck with your writing in 2013!

Happy Birthday! 

Have a great time.

Thanks Marie! I'm very happy and excited to be here. It's a very long time since I've enjoyed myself so much! My mother always said that life begins at 50. Well I'm 50 now and it seems that she was right!! :-)

Hi Marie - yes, you are right, Guernsey is inspirational. It's wild and beautiful and historic! A perfect place for walking the dogs and writing novels. Thank you for your frined invite. Ann

Hi Marie. 

Thanks for the friend add.

Anne.

Well you can't go wrong with that combination of now, the Highlands and the 18thCentury! I wish you all the best with that project. At the moment I am finishing the final chapters of the second in my Georgian historical mystery series (well it will be a series one day!) and then it is back to my Roxton series (more a family saga I guess) of Historical Romances: Writing Book 4 in the new year (set in 1777/78). Have a lovely Christmas.

Hi Marie, lovely to meet you! Yes, historical romance is my favourite, to read and to write! I love most historical time periods but the Georgian era is where I "live" most of my time writing.

Hi Marie,

Congratulations on your contract! Thanks for your comments on my blog both here and on the blog itself. I'm sorry I had forgotten I now have to approve comments (because spammers left tons of rubbish) and I didn't remember until today !! All comments now appear.

Have a lovely Christmas.

Emily x

My preference is to write Historical, partially as I love the research element involved, although I do dabble a bit here and there. I occasionally try out other sub-genre via competitions too. 

I think Young Adult is an interesting market; possibly as I get to see what my pupils are reading and school libraries are buying for them. I have been involved in a few Book Award Schemes through the years, in which teenagers select the winning authors, by reading and voting. And of course, I get to invite authors in to school to talk to the pupils. 

I read quite a wide range, but largely Romance, or 'straight' Historical, such as "Wolf Hall"... Occasionally go commercially wider eg Steig Larsson and tend to cover the big award shortlists (Booker, Orange..). I'm a sucker for the classics and adore Shakespeare too (bought my first Complete Works aged 12 with my birthday money!).

Marie, I teach English (for my sins!). I did live in France for a year (more years ago than I care to remember) - spending about 3 months in Tignes and the rest of the time in Paris, with a break or two in Brittany. It was wonderful (although I was young and carefree back then) and it helped my French immensely. Probably forgotten it all now, sadly.  Spent time in Oz too (haven't forgotten any of that language!).

I have written for an international glossy magazine (doing film festival, art-house and documentary film reviews). My first novel was completed about 3/4 years ago (gosh, is it really that long?) but have yet to submit that one. I am a serial revisionist! Is that a bad habit?  x

Hi Marie and welcome!

Lindsay

Hi Marie

Welcome to RFO - I'm a member of RNA too.

I've sent you a frend request.  If you go to any member's page you'll see a little button under their picture marked 'Add As Friend'. Just click that and a request will be sent.

Don't worry, you'll soon get the hang of things!