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Writing a synopsis that wows an editor into wanting to read my manuscript is something guaranteed to have me tearing out clumps of hair….and at times turning down right homicidal. What do you put in and what do you leave out? Five times I’ve sent a synopsis to my critique partner this week and five times it’s […]

The more I see of world news the faster I reach for a good uplifting romance novel. After the recent devastation in Christchurch we are again seeing the appalling destruction wreaked by mother nature in Japan. That this time the devastation is on the other side of the world makes it no less terrifying. And reinforces how […]