Sorry!

My brother and sister in law and me in Spain some years back.

Just to let you know that the round robin story and competition on Triskelion myspace has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Due to problems at the publisher the Anne Ireland book may not be on sale for long now, but I have some copies and anyone who would like one can write to me through my website and I'll send them one free. Best wishes, Linda

It's Summer but the sun isn't shining!

Oh dear, aren't we having some bad weather? Never mind we are going to brighten the summer up with a month long story for you. Some of it will be featured here on my blogger, some on the blogger or my space of other authors. I shall tell you more about it another time, but for now it is called Thirty One Days and is a suspense/romance story.

In the meantime I want to show you the cover for the first of my new Regency trilogy. The paperback will be out in August, and the hardback is out now. I am going to be offering free copies soon. I just need to set up the competition. Love, Linda

Hi everyone!

It is dull here today and yesterday was fantastic! I can't believe how quickly the weather goes from being hot to dull and cool. Never mind, soon it will be Spain - hopefully and then we shall get some good sunshine!

The kitchen is almost done - should be finished tomorrow. We have a new induction hob so had to find saucepans that would work on it! Never mind the old ones were a bit tatty so we have now bright shiny ones!

All going well on the writing front. Too Hot To Handle still at number one - but for how long? the new Regency will be out soon now at HMB. It is all go! Love, Linda

Getting There!

We have been to the sea house today. It was lovely to get away from the chaos the new kitchen has created! Dust everywhere and piles of stuff in all the rooms. It amazes me how much stuff comes out of kitchen cupboards. Probably half of it is rubbish, but you never want to part with it just in case!

The garden at the sea house was beautiful. All the bushes are flowering and it is a riot of colour. sitting in the sunroom reading through some proofs was relaxing and nice, and the sun even came out for a while! We had fish and chips and then went for a walk along the front later.

I just discovered that Captive of the Harem is being re-issued in a collection, which was a lovely surprise. My new book will be out in HB in June I think, so probably pb in August. Not sure exactly, but it won't be long! Love to you all.

Red Roses For Authors/ Reviews is going very well.

Oh dear!

The house is about to be turned upside down as the new kitchen fitters move in next week. I am looking forward to my new kitchen, but I hate having everything all over the place in that area. My study is always overflowing with stuff, but I like everything in the kitchen to be where it should be. At the moment we are putting things in bags and boxes and I am certain we shall never find anything afterwards!

I have put up the first author review on Red Roses For Authors/Reviews today. It is a new feature and I shall introduce other new features as time goes by to keep the site fresh and exciting. We have been up for two months today and so far the figures are about level but we are now findable on google, which we weren't for the first month. Now we have several pages of mentions and one of my writing friends told me people she knows are talking about us, so I think it is going to be a success. I hope so because my reviewers really love books and we are there to help authors, especially new ones - though we like having the successful ones too.

Well, I must go now and see what other jobs want doing. Next week I shall escape up here as much as I can to get out of the way!

As I sit at my desk the sun is shining outside.

It is another lovely day, though not as warm as the past few days. In another few minutes I am going to be chatting on Joyfully reviewed. when I have finished I shall be revising the latest book for M&B and then I have a lot of reviewing to do to catch up. But after that I must start my third in the crime series, because it was well reviewed and the publishers are keen to get on with the second, which my editor has and is copy editing it at the moment, so that is good news. it was a new departure and we weren't sure how it would be recevied, but people seeme to really like it. So fingers crossed! Love, Linda

Making videos!

I have been busy these past few days making book trailers to put up at youtube. I do enjoy doing it both for myself and for other authors. I only had two pieces of music I could legally use until recently when I found a lovely new website. the owner of the site is Kevin Mcleod and he allows you to use his music for the price of a small donation. And it is such beautiful music too! I have made one for Too Hot To Handle using a waltz and one for the Hellfire trilogy using Winter Chimes. Such a lovely piece of music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VpF2ENb0Jk