Have a guess. If the gun doesn’t give it away, then let me put you out of your misery. Romantic Suspense. If you’re about to say “no, I do not read RS!’ then you should probably check out these two articles. In my on-going efforts to bring the site up to date I recently added […]
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I’ve been running this blog for a long time. If you include the occasional break from blogging, and the times when my site host shut me down for too much traffic (yes, they can do that), then I’ve been blogging since 2005. Most of the older posts are now articles on the Articles pages. Out
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I first started writing romances for publication when I was still living in Australia. When I began, I did a lot of research about writing for Romanceland, and what editors of the day were looking for. Nearly everyone I knew that was also writing, was writing for publication with Mills & Boon–about the only romances
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A great many authors start off their stories by asking themselves a very famous question. What if…? For example, the English author of action thrillers, Desmond Bagley, wrote his best seller, Running Blind, not because he wanted to write a spy thriller, but because he had spent his summer vacation in Iceland, and wanted to
Please take note of the date of this post! If you’re reading this somewhere in the future, the book is probably no longer available for free and I don’t want you to be disappointed. Check the date line! 🙂 _____________ The first book in my Sherlock Holmes series, Chronicles of the Lost Years, is free
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Please take note of the date of this post! If you’re reading this somewhere in the future, the book is probably no longer available for free and I don’t want you to be disappointed. Check the date line! 🙂 _____________ Carson’s Night is the first book in the vampire + gargoyle series, The Stonebrood Saga.
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Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is the most remote city in the world, at the southern end of the biggest state in Australia. Even further south, tucked away at the far southern toe of the state, inside a national park, is a small former timber-town; Margaret River. Because hardly anyone ever goes to Perth
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Wait is the first of the Time Twist Tales — short stories and novellas weaving in and out of the Beloved Bloody Time series. There will be other Time Twist Tales later (right now, I’m writing Book 4 in the series, so fun bits like these will have to wait a while). Wait features Tally
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Sherlockians long ago settled (in their own minds, at least) that March 8 is Sherlock Holmes’ birthday. They arrived at the date by combing through all the Holmes stories Conan Doyle ever wrote, and sifting for clues, and extrapolating from there. Did you enjoy the third season of the most recent rendition of Sherlock Holmes,
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This was going to be a simple Mash post, but it ended up I had so much to say about AuthorEarnings.com, I turned it into a dedicated post just on the tornado that is ripping through the publishing world. A few weeks ago, super-sonically successful indie author Hugh Howey (author of Wool, amongst others) launched a
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