eBOOK BACKLIST PART II

It's been a bit of a struggle to find these at eHarlequin but the lovely Penn, from the message board, has kindly explained how to do it.

Go to the ebookstore - select Harlequin RomanceM then click on "All Available". Scroll down to any of my books, click on the Liz Fielding link and lo, all 32 of my eBooks should appear. Just putting my name in the "search" box doesn't bring them all up, and I can't give you a link because it just breaks.

It's all deeply frustrating but at least this way does work.

Believe me, I just hate it when websites make you go through hoops to buy something.

Yesterday I bought a new pair of shoes - actually the identical pair to the yellow ones I've been wearing all summer and can't face having to give up for the winter; the new ones are deep blue.

I did it with three clicks.

Total bliss.

A "ROMANCE" TREASURE HUNT!

Harlequin are running a Treasure Hunt each month during their anniversary year. First up, in February, is Harlequin Romance, so click onTreasure Hunt and start playing for a chance to win a free book.

And of course you can still download those sixteen free books they're giving away at Harlequin Celebrates

A REVIEW I HAD TO SHARE...

I have a real problem with the packaging of my November book, Wedded in a Whirlwind. The cover is light, air, movement -- a joyful moment. (And the fact that the hero is dressed in white tie and tails like a competitor in Strictly Come Dancing rather than the morning coat more usually worn at a formal wedding leaves me frankly bemused.)

I was concerned that readers would look at that cover and then, when they read the book think, "What?"

Well so far Catherine Witner at Romantic Times has given it 4.5 stars and the accolade "...exceptional emotional honesty."

And now Merrimon Books has described it as as a "Double delight!" with "...a unique inner and outer landscape."

"WEDDED IN A WHIRLWIND captures the reader's attention immediately with a combination of emotion and dramatic fast-paced action that will keep readers up late at night wanting to discover how these two can possibly escape. Forced to work together in darkness and close physical proximity, Miranda and Nick..."

Read on...

And if you want to discuss the book with people who've already read it, click here

MORE COVER ART...

It's arrived. That gorgeous box of books containing the first edition (the UK hard back library edition) of THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE.

Opening the box, getting that first sight of the cover art is always a fraught moment.

Will it be fulfil the image that you have you in your head of your characters?

Will it feel like the story you wrote?

Or will it be a nightmare, so wrong that you want to weep?

Well, this is a bit of a mixed bag. This was my vision of my heroine, Diana Metcalfe.

Not that close, to be honest.

She's a larky girl with curly hair, but it's a lot better than some of my cover images.

Does anyone remember the hideous UK version of the The Bridemaid's Reward. The one where the heroine has a moustache and we're looking straight up her nose?


And this is Sheikh Zahir al Khalid. Okay, all my heroes look pretty much the same on the cover and I wasn't going to get Antonio Banderas as a cover model.

But it is pretty. And it looks like a "sheikh" book. I was a bit concerned I was going to get him in a dinner jacket and her in uniform dancing around Berkeley Square. (You'll have to read the book!)

My real surprise is that, to me, that cover clinch looks more like a Modern/Presents cover than the kind of artwork you usually see on a "Romance". Is this a trend? Or is it simply an attempt to attract "sheikh" lovers from other series to pick it up? I already have a solid following of readers who also love Modern/Presents but if this encourages more to pick a "Romance" and realise what they've been missing, well hooray!

Oh, and I'm blogging over at eHarlequin on What Keeps Me Writing. Debbie Macomber is there, too. Right next to me. How cool is that?

Just a quickie -- I'm blogging at eHarlequin this month on writing romantic comedy, as well as digging in to meet my mid-May deadline. But, in the meantime, here's an interview at Once Upon A Romance

THE SECRETS OF WRITING ROMCOM, POSSIBLY...

Just a quick note to let you know that I'm blogging over at eHarlequin this month on the secrets of writing romcom, although any and all kinds of secrets are grist to the mill. But we'll start with Lady Gabriella and see where it takes us.