My guest author today lives in Norfolk in the UK but has attended two Romance Writers of Australia conferences in Melbourne. The first time she attended she wore an editorial hat, representing Harlequin Mills & Boon and taking pitches from romance authors who aspired to be published in a Mills & Boon line. This year, she came as an established romance author who now writes “passionate, sexy, powerful Mills & Boon romances with Happy-Ever-Afters, always”!  I was fortunate enough to meet Pippa Roscoe at her first RWA at a Harlequin author’s cocktail party, where I mentioned I had been reading stories from the Presents line since my teens. Pippa asked me to send her three chapters. Now, because I was busy writing my medieval romances and contemporary romances for Escape Publishing, it took a while for me to get the chapters to her. I still can’t believe that she took the time out of her very busy last day as an editor at Harlequin Mills & Boon to send me some

I have the pleasure of hosting a fellow Australian contemporary romance author on the blog today who has made a successful career in publishing, both with her Harlequin novels and those she’s self-published. Frequently hitting the best-seller list on the Amazon charts, she writes “romance that sets your soul on fire” and has been leaving romance readers breathless and emotionally satisfied since her first book,  The Italian Billionaire’s Betrayal, was published back in May of 2014. It was in 2016 that she signed a multi-book deal with Harlequin Presents, and she now has more than 15 Harlequin titles, which is quite a few books in such a short period!    It is my pleasure to welcome Clare Connelly as my guest author on the blog today.  First, would you mind telling us about your latest release and whether or not it posed any particular challenges to you as you wrote it? Cross my Hart, the first book in The Notorious Harts series has just been released. It’s a Mills & B

Today’s special guest is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author who knew from the age of ten that she wanted to be a writer. Her first published work was a western historical romance in 1993 and she now has over sixty published works of fiction including novels, novellas and short stories. Previously she’s won awards in paranormal and urban fantasy as well as contemporary and historical romance. Her depth of talent in writing across different genres is amazing, and she's now done it again! Her story JUST ONCE marks her debut into women’s fiction. Among her many accolades and awards, she has won two of the RWA prestigious RITA awards (Best Paranormal Romance – Blue Moon; and Best Contemporary Category Romance – The Mommy Quest); the RT Award for Best Harlequin Superromance (A Soldier’s Quest) and a National Reader’s Choice Award for Best Paranormal (Hunter’s Moon). Wow!     A huge welcome to Lori Handeland who joins me today from Southern Wisconsin.