Use it or lose it! by Mimi Barbour

  Mimi Barbour – Author of the Vicarage Bench Series & Angels with Attitude Series Her new release – His Devious Angel is available now on Amazon Use it or lose it! As retirement approached that old saying kept reverberating, haunting me. I worried that there wasn’t heaps of brainpower left to take any chances [...]

 

Procrastination – the Writer’s Demon and how to overcome it. The NZ Romance Writers Association promotes an annual competition, `Finish the damn book!’ A strange name for a writers’ competition, you say? Why would someone come up with such a title? Unless, maybe, they had recognised a real condition and were putting a name to [...]

 

1)  You want to write a book but there are several things you want to know before you begin. 2)  You have started your book and come to a screeching halt. 3)  You have started writing your book and have completed two amazing chapters – but, suddenly, you are stuck – you seem to have [...]

 

A DITTY A DAY… Happy Herby alligator Found a girl but didn’t date her When he looked around for her She’d turned into a gator purse. Okay, so it’s hardly Shakespeare; it came from out of nowhere and I decided to use it. Do you ever do that? Sit at the computer knowing you have [...]

 

You have had this story spinning around in your head for months. You have a few days break with nothing else lined up so it seems like a good time to begin putting it down in writing. You sit down at the computer and open a new document, imagining your story flooding the screen with [...]

 
The Gamble by Maree Bishop

The Gamble By Maree Bishop $2.99 Rating: Not yet rated. Published: Oct. 24, 2011 Words: 93170 (approximate) Language: English [add to library] Ebook short description Joshua’s lust for Lynora must be put aside when the future of his people is threatened. Can this simple man of God face down a soothsayer and a devilish landlord [...]

 

As an appreciation for following my blog I am giving away for FREE a downloadable copy of my book, The Duchess’ Diary. Click Here to get your copy Read a little about The Duchess’ Diary. Melissa Holt is 28, widowed, and elated about her new clerical job on a beautiful country estate. She sees it as [...]

 

“You can’t lose if you give them handsome highwaymen, duels, 3-foot fountains and whacking great horses and dogs all over the place.” Barbara Cartland. It may sound odd in today’s literary climate of `anything goes,’ but Dame Barbara (1901 – 2000) wrote about heroines who were unrelentingly chaste and pure. And to prove how popular this concept was, by the mid 90′s her [...]

 

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I have just discovered another favourite author – Alice Hoffman. She has written a number of books so I’m not sure how she escaped my greedy reading eyes. I have just read her latest book, The Dove Keepers. It is a breathtakingly beautifully written book that held me to its pages and refused to be [...]

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