Archive for February, 2010

February 26, 2010

I have to say that it’s been a very promising week. This time last year, there was much gnashing of teeth and stamping of feet but how things change…

This week:

* I saw the delicious cover of my new US release

* Wrote a newsletter – hurrah. Work. Yum.

* Wrote a 1500-word synopsis of DATING MR DECEMBER for the Sourcebooks sales team.

* Updated the website – and there’s a new page for US readers coming shortly.

* Started work on revising my current wip. I’m feeling pretty chipper about the new insights prompted by my agent’s comments. As a result, I’ve been looking for a muse for the sexy, older male character in the wip. He’s a wealthy, troubled and charismatic father and here’s my inspiration:

It’s David Wenham (who isn’t quite old enough for my purposes but is probably the closest to the character in my imagination!)

So have a great weekend – I plan to settle down on the sofa with Mr B, a bottle of sparkling Shiraz and the Six nations Rugby teams.

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February 24, 2010

My US publisher sent me the cover of DATING MR DECEMBER. It’s available on November 1st 2010 as a trade paperback with Sourcebooks Landmark. It’s very different to the UK cover of Decent Exposure and, please forgive me for drooling.

I keep telling Mr B… “Imagine if we flew over to New York to see my book in the stores in December. You’ve always wanted to see New York, haven’t you, dear? You could visit the Empire State Building, see the Statue of Liberty, catch a show on Broadway and meet all the lovely US C19 NYers.

He’s coming round to the idea.

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February 22, 2010

Hurrah!

The Guardian has published Ten Rules for Writing Fiction.

Successful writers across all genres have given their ten ‘rules’ (aka tips) for writing. Some are a bit scary (if you’re breaking said rule, that is!) but most are inspirational.

I think it’s a must-read piece on the craft and process of fiction. It’s also rather long so you may want to read it on the bus, in bed or in the loo, wherever you can get some peace and quiet.

I particularly love the suggestions from Richard Ford, Neil Gaiman – and my favourite crime writer, Ian ‘a real hunk in the flesh’ Rankin:

9. Get lucky
10. Stay lucky

And um.. cut, rewrite, cut and rewrite again…

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February 15, 2010

Okay, I know I’m a romantic novelist and I missed out Valentine’s Day. But the thing is, Life Happened over the weekend and I didn’t have time to blog.

On Friday, BBC Wales and BBC 3 Counties both phoned to ask me to speak out against the idea that ‘Valentine’s Day should be banned/is evil.’ As their ‘hopeless romantic’ and having done this gig before, I would have been delighted but I was taking my mum to lunch as it was her birthday. Happily, some not-so-hopeless romantics at the RNA stepped in and did the debate.

I wasn’t on the pc much as my daughter came home for the weekend and my husband took me to a great Valentine’s Day concert at the Symphony Hall last night. It featured songs from the shows and starred Daniel Boys (from the BBC’s Joseph show and the London cast of Avenue Q ) and Jessie Buckley (runner-up in I’d Do Anything ) Two really fresh and young stars and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Now, it may sometimes seem like there is nothing of a writing nature going on in my life at the moment, but believe me, there is. Gosh, I’d love to tell you but I’m not writing War and Peace here so I’ll spare you.

One of the things I can tell you about involves the publication of Decent Exposure in the US. I am going to have to stop calling it Decent Exposure because it has a new title. And it’s not 12 Men of Christmas but something else. I’ve also seen the fabulous new cover. It’s very different to the UK version and it involves hot men.

I hope to share very, very soon.

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February 12, 2010

Decent Exposure has been published in Turkish with a very glam cover:

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Google translates the blurb like this:

Two men on a girl to strip class, was found in the proposal would be immoral, or innocent Do you like this?

Emma leaving position Treymayne ostentatious public ilişkilerci Lake Districkt’e moved. A little peace and quiet, like one that was it! Naked with a man in the mountains to play with … Emma did not mind going through the local mountain climbing rescue team to help it accept the new centers to collect money on behalf of the ‘tasteful’ nude calendar to prepare a proposed, the social services in a thought.

Yet, these communities did not care about the business of Emma. Will Emma’s intentions to the July handsome male was completely misunderstood? Emma now it ‘Female of the month is how much is going to convince?

Or, for Turkish readers:

Ahlaksız Teklif

Özeti

Bir kız on iki erkeğe soyunun derse, ahlaksız teklifte mi bulunmuş olur, yoksa masum bir rica mıdır bu?

Emma Treymayne fiyakalı halkla ilişkilerci pozisyonunun bırakıp Lake Districkt’e taşındı. Biraz huzur ve sükunet, tek istediği buydu! Çıplak bir erkekle dağlarda oynaşmak aklından geçmemişti… Emma yerel dağcılık kurtarma ekibine yardım etmeyi kabul edip yeni merkezleri için para toplamak adına ‘zevkli’ bir çıplak takvim hazırlamayı önerdiğinde, toplumsal bir hizmette bulunduğunu düşünüyordu.

Lakin, söz konusu toplum Emma’nın yaptığı işleri umursamıyordu. Yakışıklı Temmuz Erkeği Will ise Emma’nın niyetini tamamen yanlış anlamıştı. Şimdi Emma onu ‘Ayın Erkeği’nden fazlası olduğuna nasıl ikna edecekti?

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