Free for Amazon Prime Readers

Three of my romances are free on Amazon Prime – come have a look. If you haven’t subscribed to Prime, don’t worry…they’re also free on Kindle Unlimited…

Satin and Sapphire: featured on Coffee Time Romance

Coffee Time Romance & More! showcases my book on Show it Off Saturday and shares a glimpse of what I’m all about. Come have a look…

Spark me a fire

I ignite when your spark meets mine…

Paperback Release: Madison Michael’s ‘BESOTTED’

Congratulations, Madison, on the new release. Love your cover – it showcases power and passion in equal measure. What would you advise starting authors about choosing the right cover for their stories? What should they focus on?

Surviving Valentine month

Mushy month is upon us!

I love sentimental stuff, and I love romance – perhaps more than most women – but there’s soon going to be a surfeit of it.

It will be all around us, all pervading, all nauseating – we may want to break free.

New Release: ‘A Christmas Conspiracy’

A cute, clean, short-read romance

In beautiful cold Toronto, Goldie Gill, confirmed bachelor, bumps into a gorgeous girl, only to discover that it’s a set up…or is it?

Word counts that work

This week I’m going to talk about word counts and what they could mean to you as a reader and as a writer.

What word count can mean to a reader:
How long is this story? Do I really want to read such a short/long story? Some like it long – they feel cheated by shorts and novellas; others want to get through a book in one night, or on the train ride home, so they shudder at epic word counts.

For authors, though, word counts can mean two things:

Surrender

Surrender – a short verse on love

Semicolons, Em-dashes, and Ellipses

This week I’m going to talk about some interesting punctuation marks that you should certainly try in your writing.

First, I’m going to define what a clause is, because we’ll be talking about it a lot in the following section.

A clause is a group of words – it forms part of a sentence AND contains a subject and a verb.

For example: Tanay stepped into the en-suite bathroom and began to look for a shaving kit.

Point of View in story-telling

When it refers to real life, a Point of View is the “position from which something is viewed”. In story-telling, it translates into “who is telling the story?”Whose viewpoint is it? How much of it is biased because it is only one point of view? How much can a reader believe if it is coming from one ‘position’ only?Let me try and answer these questions.