Contest closed: The Winner is Jaye Smith! Congratulations. Outback Brides: The series we’re celebrating! To celebrate all the reader love for the Outback Brides, I’m giving away a prize pack full of Aussie goodies necessities. Note the lack of Vegemite. That’s because Vegemite is not a necessity unless you’re fresh out of black shoe polish. […]
I can’t remember exactly when the idea for this series was first floated. Two years ago? Three? It took a long time for schedules to clear and stars to align, I do know that. But when we finally took to writing, the stories and the setting thrummed to life. I took the back roads from […]
Feb and March 2018 sees the first two stories in my Claimed by a King miniseries, with new Mills and Boon branding for the UK and Aus covers. UK covers are to the left, Aus covers to the right. Sometimes the Aus covers use the UK image and sometimes the US image is chosen. […]
AKA Bull Riders Last year I said yes to writing a story for a multi-author series. The only drawback? Athlete heroes and a sport I knew nothing about. Bull riders and bull riding, to be exact. Those guys who willingly strap themselves to the back of a sixteen-hundred pound–bred for bucking–bull, and try not to […]
So how do you start a new #King story for Harlequin Presents? Probably not like this. I’m in first-draft la-la land, and soon there will need to be less Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and more Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. In other words, I’ll probably have to start again. I’m on the perfect princess, […]
My Jackson family series had a makeover recently, and it’s out with the sexy, brooding bad boy covers and in with something a whole lot more romantic. I love that these new covers all feature a water horizon. Divers, boat builders, fishermen … together the Jackson brothers run the family marina on Australia’s east […]
One of my latest favourite lines of romantic dialogue comes at the very end of a trailer for a Star Wars meets Cinderella film called Jupiter Ascending. No in-depth commentary from me. I got nothing but a bellylaugh full of love for the doggy bits. I think it’s a humour thing; this takes me back to […]
(AKA He said/she said) Does anyone else treat Gotye’s 2011 hit song Somebody That I Used To Know (feat Kimbra) as a four minute romance writing class? No? But it’s fun. And did I mention that it’ll take less than five minutes of your time? Okay, so the song’s about a breakup, and there’s no HEA or […]
For when crying is a plan you aim to pursue: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green: The mother lode of tears. Youth, illness, life, love and death. ME BEFORE YOU by JoJo Moyes: What if love just isn’t enough? THE ROAD by Cormac McArthy: Raw, sparse & brutal. A dying world. A father’s […]
(AKA AMBIGUITY RULES) The 1942 Warner Brothers movie Casablanca has so many iconic lines of dialogue that we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to studying them. “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.” We could start there. We could round up the usual suspects […]
All single mother Billie Temple wants is to trade her hectic Sydney lifestyle for simple country living and a place to call home. All widowed cattleman Adam Kincaid wants is for Billie and her son to go away.
'A second-chance romance full of gentle humour, quiet strength and a deep understanding of what makes people tick'
