Liz Fielding's Blog, page 38

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
"

Virginia Woolf


I'm not sure that's true today. I'm not sure if it was ever true. Mrs Gaskell, I understand, wrote on the corner of the dining room table - something I've done myself on many occasions. My first "office" was a very moveable space that shifted in response to the needs of the family.

That all changed

NEW TALENT AWARD AIMS TO UNCOVER FUTURE STARS



The Festival of Romance is delighted to
announce that the New Talent Award will run again this year. The
industry judges are Georgina Hawtrey-Woore senior editor at
Cornerstones, Random House and Diane Banks, literary agent at the
Diane Banks Associates Literary Agency.






The Festival of Romance New Talent
Award aims to cast a spotlight on the

I'm over at Kate Hardy's blog today joining in the party to celebrate the release of her 50th book,  The Hidden Heart of Rico Rossi.

Do come and say hello to Kate and maybe win a copy of
Eloping With Emmy for your ereader.

In fact put her on your auto-visit blog because we're all lining up to cheer one of the most popular (and busy) authors in the Mills and Boon family. There will be books

I loved the opening ceremony which was all about us as a nation, and not thousands of children doing physical jerks. Haven't managed to get to anything, but have sat enraptured as brilliant people gave it their all.

My daughter, her husband and littlest had an absolutely wonderful time in the pool this week (only five rows back!). Veda Mae gave them celebrity status - everyone wanted to talk.

I was just so thrilled to here that Sarah Morgan, one of the great stars of the Presents/Modern series of Harlequin Mills and Boon had won the Short Contemporary Rita at Romance Writer of America's National Convention this month for her book, Doukakis's Apprentice

This series is the bestselling of all the romance genre series but this is the first time one of the books has won this great award

The Last Woman He'd Ever Date makes it to Australia, New Zealand and all point antipodean in August.

Gorgeous cover - the Australians seem to just capture the feel of the book so perfectly - and I'm sharing with the lovely Shirley Jump's One Day to Find a Husband, so it's a double pleasure.

There's just one small mistake. Can you spot it?

Robert McCrum on books (from The Guardian)







Public Lending Right consultation was rigged from the start

Plan to cut PLR office, as part of cull of quangos, reflects government's lack of respect ffor UK writers and illustrators... read more...

Annie West (at the Pink Heart blog)

...the importance of reading

Welcome to my writer's world. My home is being gradually but inexorably

Distributing my backlist ebooks so that they are available for everyone, on all platforms, seems to take forever. Barnes and Noble and Apple are the slowest to put the books online,  but I checked Barnes and Nobles yesterday and, at last, both Eloping With Emmy and

The Beaumont Brides Collection are now available for the Nook.



Meanwhile, back at the new house, I've unpacked and checked the

This has been a mad and exhausting week. But we're in our new home and have unpacked enough boxes that we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel. (I'm ignoring all boxes marked "books" until we have some new bookshelves!)

We moved in on Tuesday. The lovely men arrived with their huge vehicle at about 11 o'clock and starting shifting furniture, boxes and stuff - I am already

Whew! Well, the moving out was interesting. Four lovely blokes moving like lightning to get out furniture and belongings into the biggest van I've ever seen - well and van and trailer - on Friday. An excellent drive that evening down to Wiltshire (apart from a tailback around Bristol) and a hotel in the most beautiful of settings, in a manor house that was a gift from Queen Elizabeth I to