Five essential ingredients for creative inspiration
Where do painters and sculptors and composers and songwriters and playwrights and authors and poets and architects and all other creative types get their ideas?
Where do painters and sculptors and composers and songwriters and playwrights and authors and poets and architects and all other creative types get their ideas?
As readers of my blogs and my novels well know, I’m an ardent romantic. Two types of romance exist: Happy-ever-after romance, in which the lovers
From the blurb: There are worse things than hiding in a derelict old cottage, battling field mice, and sucking on one’s last lemon. Or so
Sometimes my husband and I have our breakfast on this balcony. I love the view – it makes for a wonderful start to the day.
Recently I watched a lovely romance movie called Save Haven, based on the book by bestselling romance author Nicholas Sparks. Without wishing to give away
Readers, writers, publishers – the book world has been in uproar this week following the revelation that a recently published crime novel by ‘Robert Galbraith’
From the blurb: Running late for her spoiled stepsister’s bachelorette party, Lacy Goodlow is forced to speed—snagging a hefty traffic ticket and the interest of
I love these two urns that live outside my bedroom window in France.
Recently, I watched an episode of Come Dine With Me, a British cookery challenge show, and I was most interested by one of the cooks,
A comment I receive quite often on my book Burning Embers is that it’s reminiscent of an old movie – ‘romance like Hollywood used to
From the blurb: Sun, Sea and Secrets … A week on the sunny Greek island of Kethos is just what Alice Archer needs, even if
My debut novel, Burning Embers, is set in hot and sultry Kenya. Other novels I have been working on are set in Spain and Greece,
Recently, I have been watching The Tudors (Michael Hirst), because the period of history fascinates me. There’s plenty of focus on romantic relationships in the
From the blurb: ‘Write to me, Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.’ It begins by chance: Leo
Summer is here, and the warm weather and glorious colours always put me in a good mood! So this month I’m giving away: Three copies
I love all the green on view, in our garden and the hills beyond.
There’s no doubt that book covers are an art form. Those who create the very best examples are talented artists and designers; take, for example,
Traditionally, both writing and reading are solitary, perhaps even lonely pursuits. But thanks to the digital revolution, no longer! Being a writer or reader can
From the blurb: The story of a betrayal that wasn’t. Even so, it still tore two lovers apart for eleven years. On the eve of
As promised, here is my favourite chocolate cake recipe – easy and foolproof, and deliciously, decadently rich and morish. It’s an ideal base cake to
Chocolatier-created caramels and truffles and pralines and mousses that melt on the tongue and instantly release that ‘just fell in love’ hormone. Cupcakes topped with
There is no denying that writing changes over time. Compare Dan Brown to Edgar Allen Poe, J.K. Rowling to C.S. Lewis, E.L. James to Jane
There are often regattas in the Bay of St Tropez. We watch the beautiful sailboats go by from our balcony and it’s like being at
From the blurb: Three years ago, Kate Sullivan was prepared to tell her best friend, Eric Wagner, that she had developed romantic feelings for him.
I was fascinated to read a recent article in the Guardian Books section on the increasing success of self-published books in genre markets. According to
An interesting gap exists in modern romance publishing. We have contemporary fiction, which is set in the modern time – usually the action predominantly takes
From the blurb: Antoinette’s world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically
As James Joyce wrote in Ulysses, “I’d love to have the whole place swimming in roses.”
From the film’s description: U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he
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