Since I was last here, I’ve been buried deep in writing (and re-writing, and re-writing) my latest historical romance for Mills & Boon. After nearly sixty books of all shapes and sizes for my publisher, you’d think it would get easier. Wrong! Every single time, it seems to get more difficult. I tell myself I …
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Snippets from a Writer’s Life
I am six weeks into my Slick at Sixty fitness campaign, and though I am seeing some positive results, progress is so painfully slow that I’m on the verge of saying, stuff it, forget it, I don’t care. I’m not exactly going hungry but I’m sick of hearing myself say, ‘I’m starving’ about twenty times …
Backlist Books – A Forbidden Liaison with Miss Grant
W At the start of my (still new!) TikTok journey, I decided to do a post about my favourite cover, which meant that I spent a happy hour or two going through my back list in my bookcases. After about sixty books and novellas, I’d forgotten a lot of them – in fact I couldn’t …
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Armstrong Family Tree, With all It’s Offshoots!
When I first dreamed up the Armstrong family for INNOCENT IN THE SHEIKH’S HAREM, I had no idea that they would still be popping up in my books more than twelve years later. I invented a self-serving, extremely vain patriarch in Lord Henry Armstrong, a bit of a pantomime baddy, and I made Celia, my …
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Writing Close to Home
LADY ARMSTRONG’S SCANDALOUS AWAKENING is out now. This is the second book in the REVELATIONS OF THE ARMSTRONG SISTERS mini-series, set in the mid-Victorian period. Mercy, my heroine, is a widow set on kicking over the traces and Jack Dalmuir, a self-made Glaswegian engineer, is more than happy to step in to help her. Ships, …
What I’ve Been Up To
The simple answer is, writing – so I’ve seen a lot of these lovely sunrises from my window, but not much else. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and I have been working on our second book together, so for the last few months there’s been barely a day when we’ve not spoken, emailed or WhatsApped …
New Releases – Christmas Anthologies
I have stories in two seasonal anthologies out now – because even in November, it’s never too early to read a Christmas story, right? REGENCY CHRISTMAS LIAISONS features three brand new romances, from me, Christine Merril and Sophia James. In my story, A MOST SCANDALOUS CHRISTMAS I have my first ever Welsh hero and a …
New Release and a Giveaway!
Out now, in paperback and digital, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. THE EARL WHO SEES HER BEAUTY is the first book in my new Victorian duet, REVELATIONS OF THE CARSTAIRS SISTERS. In this romance (which I think might be book number fifty-five), I have a scarred heroine with an interest in plumbing, …
