It's read an eBook week and to celebrate I've made number of my books free at Smashwords, including a rare opportunity to download my Little of Book of Writing Romance.with a click that will cost you nothing.

Here's the link so don't delay - grab them for your reader! 

Easter Giveaway!

Sign up to my newsletter - there's a link on the sidebar - to be in with a chance to win this basket of Easter goodies. A huge, soft "London" scarf, a light-up bunny, Lindt chocolate eggs, a sweet notebook, a carrot full of orange jelly beans, a Rennie Mackintosh inspired bookmark, socks and three books!

I'll be drawing the winner of Saturday 26th March, so sign up now. There's the added bonus of a free book download if you do!

Digital Book Day

Free Holiday Read

It's the holidays and, because I know you'll be  loading up your Kindles to catch up with your reading, this two-in-one anthology of a couple of my earlier romances that were published by Mills & Boon in the UK (and released in the US by Harlequin Romance) is available FREE  this weekend.

Here's the first page of OLD DESIRES -

‘MISS Carpenter?’

The enquiry was simply a formality. Holly had no doubt that the man on her doorstep, filling the entrance with his powerful presence, knew exactly who she was. In that, he had her at a disadvantage and she didn’t much care for it, or for the quite unmistakeable chill in his manner.

She had the feeling that, whatever the reason for his call, he would prefer not to be making it and she already wished she had kept to her usual habit of ignoring the doorbell when she was working. Except that this afternoon nothing was going right and she had almost welcomed the interruption.

Besides, one look had been enough to warn her that this man would not have simply given up and gone away. Determination was written in every austere, finely chiselled line of his face; an intensity of purpose that hardened the sensual curve of his full lower lip.

‘I’m Holly Carpenter,’ she affirmed with an unconscious lift of her chin, wondering what this arrogant and very expensively-groomed man could possibly want with her. The well-cut navy pin-striped suit gracing his square shoulders and lean, hard figure, and the telling pale blue stripe of his tie, betrayed that he was a long way from his City office. His method of transport, if the gleaming silver Rolls at the kerb could be described in so plebeian a manner, was already attracting curtain-twitching attention from a window opposite.

And here's the first page of A STRANGER'S KISS

‘I DON’T believe it! Where on earth did he spring from?’ Tara Lambert moved quickly to the door but the tail lights of her partner’s car were already disappearing into the blackness of the evening, taking with them any possibility of help from that direction.

       She glanced back to where the man was waiting across the street. He too was staring after Beth’s car, obviously wondering if Tara had gone home with her partner. Well it was too late to regret refusing the proffered lift, but if she moved quickly it might not be too late to escape.

       Shrugging her raincoat collar up high around her ears she snapped open her umbrella, stepped out into the wet evening and took off swiftly down the street.

       She had gone only a couple of hundred yards when she heard her name being called from the other side of the street. Her escape bid had not, after all, gone unnoticed. With a sinking heart she glanced around her; the shops were already closed and there was nowhere to seek refuge in the shuttered street. Even the taxi rank was deserted, although no cabbie would have thanked her for wasting his time on the short ride to her flat.

       She hurried on, urging the traffic lights to stay green and keep the traffic moving, but even as the thought entered her head they flicked to amber.

       She stopped, cursing herself for every kind of an idiot. She could have stayed in the office and phoned for a taxi. Maybe it was not too late to beat a strategic retreat.

       ‘Tara!’ Her name, much closer, startled her and she glanced back before she could stop herself. He was weaving through the slowing cars and cutting off all possibility of escape in that direction. 

Here are the links!


Amazon, Canada
Amazon, France
Amazon, Germany

 Happy holidays! 

Download Eloping With Emmy free this weekend!

Here we are – freebie Friday (and Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday). At last I can offer you the opportunity to download Eloping With Emmy free to your Kindle – and possibly your phone, or even your computer.

It’s a bit of a relaunch. My first cover, although absolutely lovely, didn’t seem to quite catch the sparkle, the fizz of Emmy and her race through France with Brodie, but one of the joys about having regained the rights to a book and being in total control of production is that if something isn’t working, you can change it.

The thing about Eloping With Emmy is that it’s a true romcom. As I was writing it, it played out like a movie in my head — and if anyone would like to turn it into a movie, well do get in touch! Do pitch in with ideas for who should play the leads!

Meanwhile, Emmy is stuck on a road trip with Brodie, a man who’s intent of putting a stop to her plans. A man she is deeply attracted to, which is awkward since she’s supposed to eloping with dear, sweet Kit, a pennyless artist. Dear, sweet Kit, who it's vital she convinces Brodie she’s determined to marry.

She’s smart, but Brodie's smarter and having made the mistake of aiding her getaway, he’s not about to repeat his error. If she's eloping, he's going with her. All the way.

Here are the links – just one click and the book will be on your reading device before you can say Jack Robinson. And, if you enjoy it, Emmy would be thrilled if you’d tweet about her, or share on facebook, or just about anywhere to be honest.

Also available in English in 

 Canada
 Germany
 France
 Italy

What people are saying about Eloping With Emmy ...

"I caught myself thinking half way through the book this is like a madcap comedy with Cary Grant in the lead... only to have the hero think the exact same thing within the next 2 pages. One for the keeper shelf."

   

5 stars, Amazon Review

"Wow!  The story was so well written, the characters came alive and everyone knows an "Emmy". The twists were well planned and the dialogue vibrant and cleverly written.  Highly recommended, it's one of the best books I've read in a long time."

Smashwords, janebaylis1979

"...non-stop action with dynamic scenes and vivid characterization."

  

Romantic Times

I've been a Liz Fielding fan for years now and she never disappoints. Eloping with Emmy has all her trademark wit and original plotlines and it fizzes along like a vintage 50s rom com yet - has an undercurrent of heartfelt emotion.

5 stars, Amazon Review

SIX SENTENCE SUNDAY

For this week's SSS - for more details see here, I've dipped into the first of my BEAUMONT BRIDES trilogy, WILD JUSTICE.  It has a revenge plot, old secrets, new secrets and a heroine determined to take back control of her life from the man whose mission in life is to destroy it.

      Fizz. God, but how it suited her. Best kept chilled - inclined to erupt when shaken.
     The thought of making love in a four-poster bed had been simmering in her head, fanning the damped down fire. Her deliberate lack of interest had alerted him and he had known then that he would take her there; that she wouldn't, in the end, be able to resist the romance of it.
     But while he had thought to melt the ice a little, it seemed that unwittingly he had used a blow torch because now she had said the words, there was no way of taking them back.

Recently re-released as an eBook with this exciting new cover, you can download it for free from Amazon UK, Smashwords, Nook. It will cost you all of 99c from Amazon US.  Links on the sidebar.

Have a lovely day!

FORGETFULNESS AND FREE FOREIGN EDITIONS…

Do you put things away and then forget what you’ve done with them? Stupid question. We all do that.

Reading glasses, car keys, gloves. We put them down and then have to retrace our steps until suddenly there they are, right in front of us.

Last week I had guests for lunch and so the dining room – which doubles as a second office – had to be cleared of the stuff that accumulates wherever I’m working. I shifted most of it back to its rightful place in the “Snap & Scribble” at the bottom of the garden. Tidied away the rest out of sight (as you do).

In one corner of the dining room, next to an already overflowing bookcase (all my bookcases are overflowing, double stacked, books pushed in the gap at the top) was a pile of foreign editions of my own books. They arrive, I smile, I dump them on this pile just inside the door. In the way. So I moved them.

Then, this week, prompted by the arrival of a parcel of new foreign editions, I decided to do what I'd putting off.

First, register them at ALCS (the Authors Licencing and Collecting Society which pays authors photocopying fees and foreign Public Lending Right). Then offer them to anyone in the UK who fancied a book in one of a range of languages from Japanese to Greek.

Do you think I can find them? This pile of books nearly a metre high?

I have, I swear, run out of places to look.

No doubt I’ll fall over them when I’m not looking, but in the meantime I have a Hungarian edition of The Five Year Baby Secret, Spanish and Italian translations of Wedded in a Whirlwind, Japanese editions of The Secret Life of Lady Gabriella and Dating Her Boss, something in Polish -- I'm down the S & S as I write this so I can't remember what it is -- and The Bride's Baby in French. There’s also this anthology with Diana Palmer; I’m not sure what language that's in.

If you fancy a copy to hone your own language skills, or know someone who’d welcome something written in their own language do get in touch and I’ll happily pass them on.



PANIC OVER…

Not in a pile, but in a big basket in the dd’s room – and yes I had looked there! -- along with all the other stuff that needs a home (or throwing out). So, more of all the above, plus German, Portuguese and Greek.

CONGRATULATIONS, HARLEQUIN!

It's the 60th Anniversary of the first appearance of Harlequin romances and today the celebration begin in earnest with the launch of HARLEQUIN CELEBRATES where, although it's their birthday, Harlequin are the ones giving the presents. Click on the link and from today you, your mother, your sister, everyone you know, can down load a free eBook from every single series.

With authors like Merline Lovelace, Elizabeth Rolls, Linda Goodnight and Susan Napier in the line-up, Harlequin are offering a rare treat and if I sound a little excited, it's because my own book, THE BRIDE'S BABY, is representing Harlequin Romance and you cannot imagine how proud that makes me.

Here is the complete list --

Harlequin American Romance, Once a Cowboy by Linda Warren

Harlequin Blaze, Slow Hands by Leslie Kelly

Harlequin Historical, His Lady Mistress by Elizabeth Rolls

Harlequin Intrigue, Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels

Harlequin Presents, Price of Passion by Susan Napier

Harlequin Romance, The Bride’s Baby by Liz Fielding

Harlequin Superromance, Snowbound by Janice Kay Johnson

Silhouette Desire, Baby Bonanza by Maureen Child

Silhouette Nocturne, Kiss Me Deadly by Michele Hauf

Silhouette Romantic Suspense, Stranded with a Spy by Merline Lovelace

Silhouette Special Edition, Dancing in the Moonlight by Raeanne Thayne

Love Inspired, A Very Special Delivery by Linda Goodnight

Love Inspired Historical, Homespun Bride by Jillian Hart

Love Inspired Suspense, Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry

Kimani Romance, Irresistible Forces by Brenda Jackson

Nascar, Speed Dating by Nancy Warren

You can download the books as a PDF or as an eBook. Or, if you prefer to download a version to your iPhone, that will be available in a couple of weeks.


Don't rush off yet! That's not all!

In February, the North American spotlight is on Harlequin Romance with "Diamond Brides" and there's a competition for readers to win a diamond necklace so visit Diamond Brides Proposals -- it could be you!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May 2009 bring you everything your heart desires.

Health, happiness and peace.

May the words flow without ceasing, the reviews all be five star and the covers make you weep with joy.

And very special congratulations to

HARLEQUIN

who this year celebrate their

DIAMOND JUBILEE!

I'm delighted to be part of the celebrations and you can sign up to

HARLEQUIN CELEBRATES

where you'll be able to download books, including

The Bride's Baby

for free all year.

The fireworks are also to celebrate the re-issue
in large print of

HIS LITTLE GIRL

It was my first ever RITA-nominated book.

At £8.99 it's a little expensive to buy (although with the way the pound is at the moment, not as expensive as it might have been!) but will be available worldwide in libraries, so do ask for it if you haven't read it.

Also available in January

REUNITED: MARRIAGE IN A MILLION

will be published in Germany in an anthology with Lynne Graham, Lucy Monroe and Cara Colter. More details here

And there's a French reprint of

ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS

in an anthology with Sara Craven and Charlotte Maclay.

More details of that one here