The Sheikh's Last Mistress

Her Exotic Prince

About thirteen years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Liz Fielding when she attended an afternoon at my local writing group to talk about writing romance. I’d known since I was nine years old, that I wanted to write and the discovery of Mills...

From One Decade to Another

It's another New Year's Eve and it is as much a time of reflection, as one of excitement and looking forward. Only this year, it's a chance to look back over a decade and welcome another. A whole new set of pages!As 2009 clicked over to 2010, I was s...

From Rachael's Desk - Characters

Creating Characters You and Your Readers Will LoveThis post is later than I had anticipated because I was buried deep in revisions on my latest book. Actually, I was buried deep in rewrites because my characters didn’t leap off the page. The di...

From Rachael's Desk - After the First Draft...

Welcome to my brand new monthly post From Rachael's Desk! This month it's all about what to do once you've written your first draft.Congratulations! You’ve written a book and added those magical words ‘the end’ and that achievement ...

Walking The Wall

This time two weeks ago I was walking - make that slipping and sliding down the Great Wall of China for the final time. And at the end of it we were all presented with a medal.The whole week was amazing from start to finish. My fellow trekkers were b...

Cover Love

One of the fun things about being a Harlequin Mills and Boon author is all the translated copies of my books that are available and seeing the variations of the covers always makes me smile. Here are some to them.These are my latest deliveries of aut...