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Indeed, you may ask. What is wrong with Huntly? Or more importantly, just who/what is Huntly?Huntly is a small, rural town in New Zealand, just outside of Hamilton. Its claim to fame is a large power station and a spoof song that was famous on student radio back in the 90’s. The song was: What’s … Continue reading “What’s Wrong With Huntly?”

Well, have layered in all the new conflict for my heroine, managed to cut down the word count so that it’s 53k instead of 56k, and added another love scene. Gave it to the husband last night for a first readover and he gave it the thumbs up. Phew! Poor guy, he’s read the thing … Continue reading “Now What?”

Where am I up to with the whole heroine’s internal conflict thing? Well, since getting the big thumbs down on the mother angle of her conflict, I’ve had more feedback. Now, initially my heroine was ashamed and insecure about being a geek. But this is not ‘good conflict’ because being a geek should not be … Continue reading “Why Being a Geek Isn’t Enough”

I have had more feedback from Anna at M&B re my conflict for my heroine. One word: argh!!! Want to know why? Alrighty, no, having parents dictate a characters actions is not acceptable. A bad relationship with a parent should add to the conflict, not define it. And add is the key word here. In … Continue reading “Conflict – The Parent Trap”

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Wow, this is great guys! I’m loving your questions and comments. Doing these posts focuses me too ’cause I’m still learning along with the rest of you. Right, so, I read my ms last night and thought about my poor old heroine. Interestingly, and luckily for me, I found I had the bones of a … Continue reading “Conflict Again or Keeping Your Poker Hand Secret”

Okay, we were talking about internal conflict. Thought I’d discuss this a bit more because I got my revisions today! Yes!!! These are revisions for another story that is currently under consideration at Mills and Boon. I am hugely relieved to say that they like the story but there is one major problem with it … Continue reading “More on Conflict”

Hello lovely blog readers. Thanks again for your great comments re my synopsis! Maybe I’m not as lousy at writing them as I thought… 🙂 Right, prepare for a long post… You’ve probably seen the editorial comment go up on I Heart Presents. I want to say Anna wrote an extremely flattering and lovely piece … Continue reading “Editorial Comments on Chasing Kate”

Firstly, another big thank you to all who posted here yesterday and said such lovely things! I’ve been feeling a bit down over the past few weeks, waiting for the wretched revisions, and having such nice comments made me feel much better. Thanks guys. Anyway, I see my synopsis is up. Argh. Now, I hate … Continue reading “My Synopsis”

On www.iheartpresents.com. Argh!! To all of you who posted about it, thanks so much for your great comments. It’s great to know you all liked it – and even if you didn’t, thanks for posting that you did. 🙂 Unfortunately Kate and Alex did not get their happy ever after because M&B decided in the … Continue reading “My Chapter is Up”