VALENTINE RELEASES!

What a busy month! Not only is Secret Baby, Surprise Parents released into British libraries in its hardback edition this month -- it'll be online at Mills & Boon and Harlequin next month -- but all over the world there are releases of Liz Fielding books and short stories. Here are some of them.

Promoted: Secretary To Bride! by Jennie Adams

What was I thinking? As if a new dress and a pair of borrowed hopes-and-dreams shoes were going to get me noticed by my scrummy boss! After all, he has barely looked at me in the last three years, so why should he now? But last night, after Jarrod drove me home from that posh work party, things seemed different, and for one crazy moment I felt sure he was going to kiss me! Oh, well, it will be back to business on Monday, and everything will go back to normal... But Molly's boss has other things on his agenda!

I know that Jennie Adams' name on the cover is enough to make you rush out and buy the book, but as a bonus, you'll also find THE SECRET WEDDING, a 10,000 word Liz Fielding "extra" tucked inside the covers. (It's pure coincidence that my heroine is also called Molly!)

It begins:

Begin your story at a moment of crisis, a point in time when your character's life is about to change for ever. Molly Blake's Writing Workshop Notes.

Romantic novelist, Molly Blake, has been booked to give a weekend workshop in a country hotel. Crime novelist, Tom Garrick, has been ordered by his publisher to go along and get in touch with his feminine side (women, he's told, buy more books than men). They are both late, there's only one parking place and when Molly discovers that it's her rat of a husband who's put a dent in her adored publisher's Porsche, things go downhill fast..

This is a February release from Harlequin, Australia and it's available now online here. Or at Dymock's if you'd rather have a eBook version.

And while you're checking that out, you'll find that
100 ARABIAN NIGHTS
has finally made it downunder here

If you click on the tag you'll find excerpts and stuff.









Oh, and just so that UK readers don't feel left out, you can find
THE SECRET WEDDING teamed with Betty Neels' in this Tender Extra.



And if you're in France, well, the same story is in a special Valentine Day anthology with Jane Porter and a load of other great authors. You'll find it here


And THE BRIDE'S BABY is on sale on 4th February in Germany -- or online here. (Or don't forget you can download it in English for free -- there's a link on the sidebar!)

TRAUMHOCHZEIT IM SCHLOSS?
von: LIZ FIELDING
Erscheinungstag: Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009
Bandnummer: 1773
Bestellnummer: 0801091773
2,40 EUR
inkl. 7 % MwSt.

Die perfekte Traumhochzeit? Auf einem Schloss in Südengland organisiert die Hochzeitsplanerin Sylvie eine glamouröse Wohltätigkeitsveranstaltung. Sie selbst soll dabei die glückliche Braut spielen, die zu ihrer Jugendliebe Jeremy zurückgekehrt ist. Alles läuft nach Plan. Bis überraschend der attraktive Milliardär Tom MacFarlaine auftaucht. Er ist der neue Besitzer von Longbourne Court – und der Mann, dessen Baby Sylvie seit einer leidenschaftlichen Nacht unter dem Herzen trägt. Wie gern würde sie Tom das Jawort geben! Doch er glaubt, sie sei mit Jeremy verlobt …

And in this anthology, which includes stories by Sandra Martin and Margaret Moore you'll find The Cinderella Bride on sale in
Japan

Or you could click on the "free Liz story" link on the sidebar and read it online at eHarlequin in English.

Happy Valentine's reading!

ONLINE READ

I've just discovered -- it's a good idea to click on links and check them once in a while -- that my online read, THE CINDERELLA VALENTINE, is no longer "online". It has disappeared, gone, vanished into the ether. They used to stay there for years, but now these little stories have been rounded up to be sold as telephone downloads (for which the author does not get any money -- we were paid up front).

I do wish Harlequin would let authors know when this happens -- there's nothing more annoying for readers than clicking a link, hoping for a dollop of romance, only to discover that what you're hoping to find just isn't there any more.

I imagine that, sooner or later, like THE SECRET WEDDING, my Cinderella will be available as a phone download from eHarlequin. When that happens -- and they won't tell me when, I'll have to keep checking -- I'll let you all know.

In the UK, they've starting selling a few entire books as telephone downloads. I was interviewed on Radio 5 Live! about this on Easter Monday. All those people playing with their mobiles on the train, could now be reading a romance. I love that!

I've also removed the Mills & Boon link to BOARDROOM BRIDEGROOMS, because it's sold out.

Thank you all for that.

It is still available at Amazon, or The Book Depository, where they offer free delivery, and also in Borders in Fforestfach, Swansea.

I know, because I saw it there yesterday, where I also found NATURAL BORN CHARMER, the latest Susan Elizabeth Phillips, which cost £12.99 in trade paperback which is a scandal -- and frankly, I'd much rather have an ordinary paperback because it's easier to handle. But for SEP I'm prepared to suffer.

And today PURE PASSION is launched in Wigan by north-west libraries. Lucky readers in the north-west to have such a fabulous library service.