Gah, sorry for the long silence here. I'm the most hopeless blogger on the face of the earth. Even when I've got news to announce, I tend to blank on ways to convey it and blog about it. Shameful, when writing is my trade...
So what's the latest?
My most recent publication is a short story in the lovely
Rachel Kramer Bussel's
PASSION anthology.
This is a selection of hot but romantic stories from a variety of authors including
Rachel herself, my brilliant critique partner and all round literary life support pal
Saskia Walker, and other online buddies like
Justine Elyot and
Charlene Teglia, plus many more fabulous folk. My effort is
THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT and features an unlikely hero, a hated and feared 'management consultant' who comes in to sort out the company where the heroine works. But when
Susie meets
Noah out of hours, in a bar, she discovers he's not quite the ogre she's made him out to be at work... in fact, he's a sexy hunk with a much more amenable side to his nature.
Here's
a mini snippet of THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT, plus some links so you can buy
PASSION!
In terms of what I'm writing at the moment... Well, I'm working on the early stages of a proposal for my second
Spice novel. I have one or two different notions... I won't grace them with the word ideas as they're still so vague they hardly earn that title... but the strongest contender seems to be something I'm just calling
Diamonds for the moment. It involves a Victorian inheritance, and a pair of distant cousins with issues - both between one another, and with other people and situations.
Adela and
Wilson Ruffington don't really like each other all that much, although they can't deny a mutual attraction. Both are somewhat spiky and difficult characters, and not what you'd classically call "beautiful people". I'm at the very early stages with
Diamonds, though, and have only written half of a scene... and have very little plot to speak of, as yet.
Prior to working on
Diamonds, I completed
A Gentlewoman's Dalliance, which is #4 in my Victorian
Ladies' Sewing Circle series for
Harlequin Spice Briefs. In this one, naughty prime time lady,
Mrs. Mary Brigstock indulges in kinky fun with her hubby... and a handsome young 'specialist'. Oooh, la, la! I'm hoping to post a teaser of that one soon on my web site, along with one from #3,
A Gentlewoman's Rescue, in which lady bicyclist
Lucy falls off her bike and almost straight into the arms of
Ethan, a deliciously earthy hunk with a secluded country cottage.
These two stories won't be available until
September 2012 and
March 2013 respectively, alas. Sob, sob, sob... But in the meantime, you can still whet your appetite for my Victorian writing with my first two
Ladies' Sewing Circle outings:
A Gentlewoman's Predicament and
A Gentlewoman's Ravishment, the risqué adventures of Circle members
Sofia and
Prudence respectively.
That's all for the moment, but I hope to post again tomorrow [yeah, right...] with news of what's in the pipeline for next year and beyond in terms of writing and book and story releases...
