Writing Blog
Cover reveal! May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn
Super excited to be able to share my cover reveal for my forthcoming novel, May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn : Three Coins 3. This is the third in my Three Coins series, although it can be read as a stand-alone. Although I’m hoping you’ll enjoy your “stay” at this charming Umbrian inn so…
Read MoreJanuary 2026 reads
My reading year got off to a good start in January. I read four novels to start off 2026 – and three of the four were five-star reads that I highly recommend. My reading month started off in France, where a heartbroken English woman moves from rural France to a cheap house share in Versailles,…
Read MoreShort stories, anyone? Drink Wine and Be Beautiful on sale now!
This week I had a BookBub deal on my short story collection, Drink Wine and Be Beautiful. It’s only 0.99 in Australia, Canada and the UK in this BookBub deal on Amazon and Kobo – through the weekend. But I wanted to also run a 99 cent sale for US and EU readers – so…
Read MorePreparing for my next Three Coins novel…
What they don’t tell you about being a novelist is that you had better enjoy your own work, because you’ll be reading it a lot! I am doing that in these days as I prepare my next novel, May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn: Three Coins 3. I am having it formatted, and that…
Read MoreNew Literary Global Book Award for Easter at The Three Coins Inn
Happy to share the good news that my latest novel, Easter at The Three Coins Inn : Three Coins 2, has just won its fifth book award! This is good news – but even better, because I’ll soon be releasing the next in the series, May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn: Three Coins 3,…
Read MoreGetting a start on my 2026 writing…
We’re a little over a week into 2026, and I’m thinking about writing goals in the new year. I always enjoy considering my writing goals for the year. I don’t always meet them, but I generally try to hold myself accountable to what I’ve mapped out for myself. With my steadily growing pile of published…
Read MoreWrapping up my 2025 reading year
Happy New Year! Absolutely no idea where the time goes anymore, but hard to believe 2025 is now over – and it was another great year in books. Once again, I met my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2025, reading 46 books of my proposed 45. A whopping 14,622 pages of fabulous books. And yes,…
Read MoreMy time travel novel, Dark Blue Waves, is having a 99 cents sale
It’s the end of the year, and who doesn’t need a bit more romance, fantasy – and Jane Austen – in their lives? I have a 99 cents/pence BookBub deal taking place tomorrow on my novel Dark Blue Waves in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom … and I decided to extend it to the…
Read MoreA wrap-up of my WFWA-authored novels read in 2025
Each year, I do a wrap-up of the novels I’ve read that are authored by Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA) authors. As a fellow member of WFWA, I may be a bit biased, but I go out of my way to include novels by WFWA in my annual reading … and I have not yet…
Read MoreFeisty Deeds II launch – and Editors’ interview
Sooooo excited that tomorrow our new anthology, Feisty Deeds II: Historical Tales of Batches and Brews, will be launched. You can order your copy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple Books. This is a fabulous collection of stories by twenty-five talented authors, with stories spanning centuries and the globe. As one of the…
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