My guest author today is a fellow Australian who has written twenty-six novels for Harlequin Romance. After completing a major in English, she returned to university and obtained a Masters of Philosophy in Creative Writing and is currently working on a PhD. Along the way, she’s had several different jobs including one which definitely fitted into the romance theme—waitressing at a wedding convention centre. Despite her many novels, I must confess that while I’ve long been aware of her name, Michelle Douglas is a fairly new-to-me-author. Although I don’t tend to be a voracious reader of the Harlequin Romance line, upon the recommendation of a friend, I bought Michelle’s ‘A Baby in His In-Tray’ last year and loved it so much I went on to purchase Michelle’s ‘The Million Pound Marriage Deal’. Now, I’m looking forward to the next release and, when time permits, working my way through her backlist. Michelle, welcome to the blog today. It’s lovely to have you as my guest and congratula...

I  met today’s guest author at my first RT Convention in New Orleans in 2014 and although I’ve seen her at several other RT Conventions, I had my first chance to get to know her a little better when we met at a Harlequin author’s evening in Australia . As well as being a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, this wonderful lady has played host at RT convention dinner functions and dazzled us all with her theatrical productions. It wasn’t surprising, then, to find that she majored in theatre arts at the University of South Florida and spent some time working in dinner theatre until she decided to stay home and write after the birth of her third child.   Her first book, “When next we love”, was published in 1982 and since then she has written category romance, time travel, vampire fiction, romantic suspense, historical romance and Christmas romance.  A mother of five, (and now also a grandmother), in 1999 she launched the RT Vampire Ball and revenue from this w...

Thank you to everyone who entered Anna Campbell's give away of a free download of THE LAIRD'S CHRISTMAS KISS. The lucky winner is Marita Baghwat. Marita if you could please message me privately with your contact details, I'll pass these on to Anna and she can arrange the prize. Please contact me before the end of the week or I will redraw. Thank you to Anna Campbell for the giveaway! For those who missed out, I hope you'll purchase this wonderful story on line.

Today’s Award Winning, USA Today Best Selling author joins me from New Zealand. She sold her first book to Harlequin’s Desire in 2005 and now has in excess of  4.3  million books in print, has been a finalist five times in the RWAus Romantic Book of the Year awards, a three times finalist in the RWNZ Koru Award for Excellence and won the Koru in 2015. While I can’t claim to have read every single one of her titles, I’ve read many and each one has really tugged at my heartstrings somewhere along the way because her stories provide a deep, emotional journey for her characters...and therefore for her readers! Both she and I are Pisceans—supposed to be very creative, imaginative people and very much dreamers, and my guest, Yvonne Lindsay, says she always dreamed about writing romance. It was when she heard Susan Napier speak at   a community centre talk  that she “found (her) tribe”. However, I was interested to hear that she has quite a romantic story of her ...

My guest today obtained a degree in English Literature from the University of Queensland, which is where I did my undergraduate degree in speech pathology. However, we didn’t meet until 2005. We were both seated at the same table because we were among the four finalists in the Romance Writer’s of Australia Emma Darcy Award for best unpublished manuscript. I’d heard from someone who’d been a judge that this author’s was the one tipped to win. She’d described it as a superlative manuscript, so, it was no surprise when Anna Campbell placed first in the competition! I looked forward to Anna’s manuscript going into print so I could buy it and read it myself. From first place in the Emma Darcy Award, Anna was a finalist in the RWA (America) Golden Heart Award with the same story, then Anna experienced something most of us can only d ream about—a bidding war between three major publishing houses. The rights were sold to Avon HarperCollins and Anna Campbell’s CLAIMING THE COURTESAN lau...