NEW RELEASE! Under His Skin

Out now in AU/NZ, in the UK March 21st and USA April 1st (no joke!)

Pastries and passions!

To celebrate the release of my first Mills and Boon DARE in Australia/NZ, I'm giving away a paperback copy over at the AUSTRALIAN ROMANCE READERS ASSOCIATION blog, where I'm chatting about pastries and passion!

Check it out HERE to enter.

#DareToShare

The new series for Harlequin Mills and Boon, DARE, has just launched in the UK.

There are plenty of fab giveaways and fun online with the hashtag #DareToShare so go check it out.

My first Dare SWEET THING releases 19th Feb in the UK and AUS/NZ and 1st March in the US.

Here's the Aussie cover: isn't it fab?

You can add SWEET THING to your Goodreads to be read shelf here.

Do you dare?

Cover reveal for the new Harlequin Dare series!

Check out my covers for the new Harlequin DARE series, launching Feb 2018.

SWEET THING is the first in my trilogy, with WILD THING releasing July and PLAY THING in October.

I can't wait for readers to to get their hands on this new sizzling series!

FREE Harlequin book: WEDDING DATE WITH MR WRONG

If you're in Australia, Mills & Boon are giving away one of my books FREE on iBooks today (valid for the next week.)

Coupons in the Herald Sun, The Sunday Telegraph, etc… or check out HERE.

Book of the Month

ROMANCE FOR CYNICS is the Editors' Pick 'Book of the Month' over at Mills & Boon.

#TemptedToWrite

Check out this fantastic writing comp being run by MILLS & BOON.
Here's the lowdown from my fab editor Flo Nicoll:

Welcome to Tempted to Write, the Modern Tempted writing competition that Harlequin UK will be running on Facebook this January!

We will be asking daily questions for ten days, designed to get people thinking about their characters, conflicts and plot. Each day, we will choose our favourite answer, and every winner will receive lovely Modern Tempted books as a prize.

The competition will run from 20^th January to 31^st January. At the end of the ten days, we will invite entrants to write a short story (10,000 words max) based on the questions and answers, to be submitted by 10^th February. The winner will be published on our website on Valentine’s Day, and also receive an editorial mentor in the form of the lovely Clio.

Happy New Year! Or is it?

Sorry for being AWOL since Boxing Day.
My kidlet has had pneumonia! And I've got some weird shortness of breath that has involved chest XRays and the like, with no resolution yet. Ugh.

Hope your new year has been more fun than mine!

In other news, I have a Mills & Boon anthology BEDROOM SEDUCTIONS out this month (a re-issue of Two Weeks in the Magnate's Bed.)

Nice cover.

Bargain books at Boxing Day sale

MILLS & BOON Australia are having a half-priced sale on ALL e-books until the 31st December.

So many bargains.
Use promo code BOX13 at the checkout.

My YA thriller BANISH is only $4.25 for the paperback at the moment, and half-priced e-book makes it just under $5.

Bargain!

Her Deal with the Devil UK version

You've seen the new Kiss series cover for this book releasing May a few posts below.

Well, here's the UK version.

I like how it fits the jewellery theme of the book.
Would you do a deal with this guy?
Reckon I would!

WEEKEND BOOK CLUB: How to Win the Dating War

I love discovering new authors and becoming hooked on their books.
Aimee Carson is now one of those authors.

I read How to Win the Dating War last week and it blew me away (especially as this is Aimee's 2nd book!)

Here's the blurb:

In the men’s corner.. Cutter Thompson – Miami’s hottest ex-racing car driver – believes that action always speaks louder than words. Participating in a celebrity dating competition, where his every text is analysed to death, is his worst nightmare! 


Flying the flag for the girls... Divorcee Jessica Wilson has built her life – and her dating service! – on the premise that communication is the key to happiness. Cutter might not think he needs her help to flirt successfully, but her professional radar says otherwise... 


But this battle of the sexes gets complicated by an intense, sizzling attraction! Will it be game, set and…match made in heaven?


This was my first book by Aimee Carson and I can sum it up in one word: WOW!

How to Win the Dating War is a sexy read with two mismatched characters that create major sparks.

Cutter has to be the hottest hero I've read in a long while. 
He's brash, blunt and incredibly drool worthy.
Jessica is a little prim and proper, and the perfect foil for his rough around the edges appeal.

The sexual tension sizzles off the page!

I loved every minute of this story and can't wait to read more from Aimee.


Highly recommend.


What are you reading this weekend?

Want to write for Harlequin Romance?

Want to write for Harlequin Romance?

Here's your chance.

The Mills and Boon UK team are fast-tracking submissions!

"...we’ll be launching a fast track submission period! Anyone who sends us their first chapter and synopsis between 14th March and 23rd April will hear back from us less than ONE MONTH after the closing date, before the 18th May.


"The email address to send your submission to is romancefasttrack@hqnuk.co.uk.

"Please attach your first chapter and short synopsis to the email as well as a short query letter, letting us know how much of the manuscript is complete. Please note, we’ll be looking at only one submission per person."
 
So there you have it.
What are you waiting for?

Release day: Author's Choice

Last year, the lovely folk at Mills and Boon Australia approached me to choose 2 of my favourite Harlequin Romances I'd written for re-release.

I chose A TRIP WITH THE TYCOON (because the train journey on the luxurious Palace on Wheels through Rajasthan, India, that Tam and Ethan take is a firm favourite of mine) and EXECUTIVE MOTHER-TO-BE, because Nathan is so deeply complex and Kris is a 35 year old career woman who never thought she wanted kids (and how they come together is a gradual process.)

Hope you enjoy!

If you're not in OZ/NZ, you can grab the e-book version here

Book of the Month in OZ

INTERVIEW WITH THE DAREDEVIL is Book of the Month at Mills & Boon Australia for January.

On shelves now!

It's a 2-in1 Harlequin Sexy with the fabulous Aimee Carson, double treat!

Wild in Italy

This month, WILD NIGHTS WITH HER WICKED BOSS, my Alaskan book, is out in Italy in a duo with the fab Heidi Rice.

Check it out here.

New Voices writing comp

All you budding category romance writers out there, Mills and Boon have just launched another New Voices competition.

They bought several authors from last year's comp, so go check it out here.

Good luck!

Calling all sexy writers!

Harlequin Mills and Boon are running another fabulous contest to discover new authors and this time it's for the Modern Heat/Presents series (Sexy Sensation in Australia), one of the fab series I write for.

So if you like writing sexy, have a fun, fresh, flirty voice and would love to be published in this series, why not give it a go?

All details for the FEEL THE HEAT contest are here.

Good luck!

Cover girl

In all the excitement of the New Year, I completely forgot to blog about this.

Late last year, I was interviewed by Harry MacLure, chief editor for AITW, an international magazine for Anglo Indians. When he said I'd be on the front cover of the Christmas issue, as well as being the feature article, I was delighted!
I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive but last night, I had an email from a lovely lady in Montreal. She said she used to read Mills and Boon romance in the 60s when she was a teenager and after reading my interview, she was going to start reading them again and catch up on the romance that got sidelined in her busy life.
Isn't that fabulous?

The magazine is distributed to thousands of people world-wide and it's jam-packed with great articles. If you're interested, check out details here.

I'm off to enjoy my fifteen seconds of fame :)

And the winner is...

I've woken to some good news this morning.

FOUND: HIS FAMILY has won the Cataromance Reviewers' Choice Award 2006(July-Dec) for Best Mills and Boon Tender Romance.

This book was also nominated in the Best Silhouette Romance category, which was taken out by Sophie Weston.

Several of my buddies picked up awards too (yay!): Trish Wylie for Best Mod Ex, Ally Blake for Best MandB Romance and Fiona Lowe for Best Med Romance. Go girls!

I had great doubts when writing FOUND: HIS FAMILY. It was a highly emotional book for me, with Toby suffering leukemia and needing a bone marrow transplant, and I'd never done a book like this before. It's also a departure from my usual fun, flirty style so I wondered what readers would think.

Thankfully, so far I've had nothing but positive feedback and this award means a lot.

I've been nominated for a few Cataromance awards but this is my first win since I won Best Harlequin Romance with my first book, THE TYCOON'S DATING DEAL back in 2004, so I'm thrilled :)