NEWSLETTER


I've just received my first Mills & Boon Email "Newsletter". If you haven't had one then you can click here and sign up.

Go on. You know it makes sense. :)

Actually, the main reason I'm so excited is that the adorable Lady Gabriella's story is "Book of the Month". She's already on sale online (there's a link on the sidebar) but she'll be out there, retail, next week, so do say hello to her when you're passing, pick her up if she's fallen behind the supermarket shelves; make her feel wanted.

The other good stuff is that I've finished the page proofs of The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride, which made a lot more sense after a gap of a few weeks. It's at the light and fluffy end of my range and is going to on sale in January 2008.

I've also just received hardback copies of Reunited: Marriage in a Million (August, 2007). Okay, the heroine doesn't look anything like Belle, who has short blonde hair with darker streaks, but it is a lovely cover. This book is not out the "light and fluffy" department and blurb very carefully avoids the heroine's major internal conflict, presumably not to scare anyone off. It's part of an amazing trilogy I've written with Barbara Hannay and Jackie Braun and I'll be telling you more about it soon.

But May is Lady Gabriella's month. I've already run a competition to give away a copy (when it's out there on the shelves I want you to buy it!), but I'll be running some kind of fun and frivolity with prizes from my back list next month. But first I'm taking a little break for, um, research.

Okay, here's a competition. I'll be away for a few days.

Look at this picture and tell me where I'm going.

Email your answer with "Picture" in the subject line and I'll draw the prizewinner on 31st April.

Whoever it is can pick a book from my back list.

THE SECRET LIFE OF LADY GABRIELLA


From Liz...

Ben, Ben, Ben....

What do you want me to say? Your sister had better things to do than worry about your house. She has a career, too. (She’s in Samoa, by the way.)

And you didn’t expect Mrs Fuller to stick around and polish your knick-knacks when she could be putting her feet up in the sun for the first time in her life, did you?

And try to forget that unfortunate accident in the library which, by the way, was as much your fault as hers. Be honest. Admit that Ellie makes the place feel like home. How long is it since you could say that, hmm?

So, the answer to your question is yes, Ben, I expect you to be grateful. Very grateful.

Now stop whining and go and buy Ellie something warm and furry -- you know it makes sense!

And leave me to get on with writing Sylvie and Tom's story!

THE SECRET LIFE OF LADY GABRIELLA

From Ben Faulkner...

Just when you think life can’t get any worse you come home and find there’s this woman living in your house.

That was not the plan.

I did not need a house-sitter. I had a sister and a cleaner and between them they were supposed to be taking care of things while I was away. Then the cleaner won a fortune on the lottery, my sister decided to go bug-hunting in Sarawak, or Senegal, or Sumatra – Gabriella March seems a little hazy on the actual continent – and I get caught up in a civil war.

And when I finally get home, hoping for a little peace and quiet to get on with my work, there she is.

A gothic-novel reading, spectacle smashing, duster wielding danger to life and limb. Sitting. In my house.

And I’m supposed to be grateful?