Free Promotion For single mother, Victoria Scanlan, the visit to Darkhaven is a rare chance to combine work with pleasure. A weekend of sybaritc luxury and the chance to quote on the flowers for an upcoming society wedding. If she can obtain this commission her floral boutique Victorian Grace will never look back. But to her […]

NaNoWriMo is over for another year. One Hour To Midnight was verified at 77, 500 words on 25/11/2012. Now I have this sense of being at a loose end. It was a great boost to know that to reach a goal I had to put in so many hours each day to acheive the word count I’d set […]

I’ve Been Tagged! By Shirley Bourget https://www.shirleybourgetfreelancewriter.com When she talked about her latest release: Blood: Book One of the Ancestral Skin Saga A fascinating story of a ghost Native American Shaman My Current Work In Progress Thanks Shirley Bourget for this opportunity to talk about my current WIP ….. well when I was tagged it was current but […]

At the beginning of November The goal of rewriting a completed, polished manuscript seemed a daunting task, after all this was a 75,000 word novel I was attempting to master. The original first draft of One Hour to Midnight, originally titled Your Son, My Child, was completed, so I thought, in three months and I entered it […]

  If You like a feel good romance…. watch this space. I have two new books coming out soon.   One Hour to Midnight Due out in early December   Ten years ago Veronica Langdon thought relinquishing her infant son was the toughest choice she would ever have to make….. turns out she was wrong. […]

One of the toughest questions a parent has to answer is about death. Years ago as I sat beside one of our sons in intensive care watching his battle… I heard a band outside on the lawn below the windows playing Christmas carols and I remember thinking…If Justin dies, next year the band will still […]

Often, I struggle with tender scenes trying to convey the deeper meaning and this one has proved very difficult to get just the right balance of plot, character and desire. Excerpt…. One Hour To Midnight She sensed him at her back a few seconds before his arms threaded around her waist and he pulled her back against […]

I started out today with mixed feelings. I attempted NaNoWriMo last year but got sidetracked by an editorial request. This year I’ve taken a slightly different tack. I have a manuscript that needs editing, one that’s been bugging me for a little while now. This is another manuscript that finalled in the Clendon Award.   One […]

My book Lovers’ Lies will go live at Blurbs in Bloom on Sunday, October 28, 2012 after 1215A CST. Which for those of us who live down under translates into after middayish on Monday 29th. The link will be https://www.blurbsinbloom.com/2012/10/lovers-lies.html. So please feel free to pop over and leave a comment. […]

Burning the midnight oil worked. Shadow Dance is live on Kobo. Not sure how their system works but I eventually found it by searching my name… and as yet haven’t worked out where to find the short link for readers. One baby step at a time here. I tried this one on and it works […]