If you like “passionate historical romances dripping with scandal and intrigue” with  “surprise twists and seemingly impossible Happy-Ever-After endings” you need to read a book by today’s guest author, Beverley Oakley, who joins me from north of  Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her handsome husband and two talented Young daughters. I met Beverley many years ago at a Romance Writers of Australia conference. At  that time we were both unpublished authors and found that we not only had romance writing in common but that our husbands were both commercial, international pilots. In  fact, Beverley left Australia shortly after to follow her husband to Japan as he had a  basing there. Since then, Beverley has received a number of awards and nominations for her  stories. RAKE’S HONOUR, Book One in her SCANDALOUS MISS BRIGHTWELL  series won the Australian Romance Reader’s Association (ARRA) award for Best  Historical Romance; MAI...

  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...

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. I...