Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Happy New Year!




WISHING YOU ALL HEALTH & HAPPINESS IN 2015
MAY ALL YOUR DREAM COME TRUE

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Writing the list...


The new year is always feels like a chance to roll a clean sheet of paper in the typewriter (for those of you who are old enough to remember what that is!) and start over.

Forget all those resolutions that vanished sometime last January. This time it's going to be different.

You will go dry in January, detox, lose weight so that when the first snowdrop appears you'll feel energised rather than weighed down by all that heavy winter food.

You will use those long, dark winter nights to write the book of your heart instead of vegging out on the sofa with a packet of biscuits and all those box sets you got in your stocking.

You'll do those 10,000 steps a day, learn to speak another language, write a wish list and actually manage to cross at least a few of them off before the end of the year.

Well maybe. That's a lot to put on yourself and it's hardly surprising that so many of us never make it beyond the first few weeks of our good intentions.

But turning the calender over to a new year is the perfect moment to review what your did last year. See how far you've come. Celebrate the great moments. A good time to think about the things that didn't go as planned - life happens, we stumble because we've human - but to figure out how to beat the hurdles tossed in our way and figure out if we could deal with them better in the future. Especially the ones we build for ourselves.

Make your resolutions by all means. Reach for the stars but keep in mind Robert the Bruce and the spider who didn't give up when his web wouldn't stretch across the cave, but kept trying until he made it. Falling for a chocolate biscuit isn't the moment to call it a day and forget the diet. Just enjoy it and move on.

Resolutions are not a one day affair. Each day the calender gives us a fresh new page on which to write our story.

I hope that your 2015 is like one of my romances, full of happy beginnings.









Monday, December 29, 2014

My year....

Some highlights of my year....

For His Eyes Only was published.



Anything But Vanilla shortlisted for the RoNA Rose!



 The Bride, the Baby and the Best Man re-issued as eBook


A new grandbaby - Etienne John - arrived on 16 October




Twenty-second anniveresary of first book celebrated sith a reissue in a lovely new cover!


End of year perfection with a two-in-one duet with the wonderful Donna Alward!



Friday, December 26, 2014

If Santa put a new Kindle...

...in your stocking, best get downloading your favourite authors quickly, because from 1st January Amazon UK will be charging UK sales tax based on where the buyer lives, not on the tax haven where it's based - which is absolutely fair and right.

VAT on ebooks will be going from 3% to 20%.

Authors and publishers, who have been discounting the books heavily for their readers - and still are -  will not be able to suck up that extra cost so it will be passed onto the buyer.

The big question is not how much we're paying, but why are we paying VAT on ebooks when we don't pay it on paper books. A timely question to ask your MP in the run up to the general election.




Monday, December 15, 2014

Take one cowboy, one tycoon and two desperate women...

This is the best fun! A book share with my best online buddy, Donna Alward is released in the United States today.

A Deal at the Altar is a two-in-one containing two marriage of convenience stories - Donna's cowboy romance HIRED BY THE COWBOY (originally published in 2007) and my UK/Dallas based romance, SOS: CONVENIENT HUSBAND REQUIRED (originally published 2010).

Here are the blurby bits -

Hired By the Cowboy

Alexis Grayson is good at looking after herself - she's been doing it all her life. So what if she's alone and pregnant? She'll cope But gorgeous cowboy Connor Madsen seems determined to take care of her. And Alexis can help him - he needs a temporary wife; she needs somewhere to live until the baby's born. A short-term marriage will solve all their difficulties!

SOS: Convenient Husband Required


May Coleridge must marry before she's thirty to inherit her family home and keep her new business afloat.


Adam Wavell comes from a long line of wastrels—but he's turned his life around. He's a corporate success story and a pillar of the community. Only, now his flaky sister has left him with her screaming baby! 

A deal must be done. May will help Adam with his niece if he'll answer her SOS!


Some reviews for Hired By the Cowboy
A story that will have you crying one minute and hoping that the love of two people can survive through anything. If you like a OLD fashion romance then read a good book by Donna Alward and you will have trouble putting the book down. A must read for any of the avid readers. I enjoyed the story immensely and friends would find anytime this book to read. ... a reader at Amazon

"...sincere, sweet, romantic, having all of the elements which make a great love story!" --Pink Heart Society Reviews


Some reviews for SOS: Convenient Husband Required

"This is a great summer fun read! I don’t think anyone but Liz Fielding could make this theme work or work so well. The story is part ‘baby on the doorstep’ (desktop), part ‘poor boy to rich boy’, part Jane Austen style entailment caused ‘marriage of convenience’ and for good measure there’s a touch of ‘thriller- adventure’ to give the story a dash of life and death drama. I guess you can do this after you’ve written over sixty books!" from a review posted by an eHarlequin.com member,



This was a great story of a love lost that is found again. A baby and archaic will help May and Adam realize that they always had one another but they just didn't know it! Angie at Goodreads

Here are the links -

Amazon US
iBooks
Barnes and Noble

I'm sorry that there's no KOBO link, but they won't let me link to the US site from the UK, however if you click on the link in the sidebar I have no doubt it will take you to your home market.

Friday, December 05, 2014

Christmas Kisses and Mistletoe Wishes

The first of my new newsletters, Newsletter - Christmas Kisses and Mistletoe Wishes - was launched yesterday and if you haven't already signed up to receive it here are some great reasons why you should -

 1 I will never send more than one a month.

 2 My subscribers go into a weekly draw for a book from my back list.

 3 I run competitions and giveaways from time to time. Not huge ones - you won't win a 50" TV, but there will be good stuff.

 4 You'll get all the latest news of my releases, new and old, without having to go to my website, blog or facebook page - although that's good and I love to see you all there, too!

 5 I'll love you forever. :)

Meanwhile, if you haven't seen the December Newsletter, you can read it here and you can sign up here