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Yes, I finally did it, I gave my mother my ms to read. Seeing as how she is the orgininal Ashenden, I thought she’d better have a look just in case it actually sees the light of day and on the off chance she didn’t want her name being attached to anything she didn’t like. … Continue reading “Caving in to My Mother”

We’ve been having houseguests, very old and very dear friends who are extremely supportive of my writing. However, they do not have a romantic or sentimental bone in their bodies and think romance as a genre is… Well as one of them put it: “who reads that sh*t?”. Whereupon I climbed up on my soapbox … Continue reading “Being a Militant Romance Writer”

Okay, I cannot believe the speed with which this has happened but I got an email from Anna this morning telling me she really liked my full ms! Woohoo!!! Excuse the exclamation marks but, y’know, I’m quite pleased about it. She was very impressed that I’d taken on board their suggestions, that hero and heroine … Continue reading “One Step Closer”

I’ve been having crap sleep at the moment, mainly due to my OCWD (obsessive compulsive writing disorder) and stressing about what I should have put in the ms that’s with M&B now. Usually I try to distract myself by thinking about my current wip instead but last night, I got to thinking about all my … Continue reading “Heroes I have Known…”

It’s true, I am absolutely obssessive compulsive about my writing. I was told off yesterday by the husband for spending the weekend in front of my computer. I’m trying to make this a full time job you see so the plan was to limit writing to during the week, just like any other job. However, … Continue reading “Being Obssessive Compulsive”

Just want to add my congratulations to Lucy Roberts who has just sold to M&B Modern Heat. As the winner of the Feel the Heat competition, her sale was kind of in the bag just a bit. 🙂Way to go, Lucy! The rest of us are simply green – in the nicest possible way of … Continue reading “Congrats Lucy!!”

I was tidying up my disaster area of study yesterday and discovered an old note with some names on it. Took me a while to figure out what it was but then I remembered. About ten years ago, when I was but a youngster, I had an idea I’d try writing a Mills and Boon. … Continue reading “Gwendoline Quadd”

Have sent off the manuscript and it has been received by M&B. They said they’d get right on it ASAP. I am preparing for a six month wait at least. Now what am I going to do? Perhaps I shall entertain myself with Confessions of a Slush Pile Reader.

Am now back from a week and a half of lazing around doing nothing at the beach. Fantastic to have some time off but am now distinctly unmotivated. Have no resolutions to speak of and am heartily sick of the manuscript I have to post to Anna at M&B. Read the hard copy while I … Continue reading “Back to Work”

New Year here in NZ and it’s a gloriously hot and sunny day. Hard not to feel that this is going to be a good one…We’re up north from tomorrow for another week and a bit of holiday. Manuscript is all printed out and ready for proofing, and the little PC is packed and ready … Continue reading “Happy 2009!”