From Rachael's Desk - Characters
Creating Characters You and Your Readers Will Love
This 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 didn’t bring their story to life. The reason why. I couldn’t envisage them as real...
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 alone deserves celebration. Whether you have just taken part in NaNoWriMo or have been writing for...
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 author copies.These Manga copies of A Deal Before the Altar are just fabulous!Rachaelxx...
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 brilliant and we had such fun getting to know one another as we took on the Great Wall. The trek was...
Pen Y Fan
Last weekend, my daughter and I did something different. We headed for the Brecon Beacons National Park to walk to the peak of Pen Y Fan, which at 886m is the highest peak in South Wales and Southern England.We began the long climb up of our 8km walk and I couldn't resist stopping to take photographs - well that's my excuse!The stone path...