When I wrote for Ellora's Cave, I tried my hand at a short paranormal romance. My aim was for a word count of less than 15,000. I wrote My Scarlet Woman and sent it to my editor only to receive a rejection. She liked what I'd done, but I'd crammed too much story into my romance, and it suffered because of it. Her suggestion was to rewrite my book into a longer form. Right, I thought. I love this...
Although I've visited Panama before via land (around thirty years ago) and peered at the canal from the shore, I was looking forward to actually sailing through. A small part of me wondered if I might get bored—I mean, an entire day of canals then lake then more...
Before I published my first book, I wrote a story called Summer in the City. The heroine was a country girl and funnily enough, her name was Summer. She was a trainee librarian, and she moved to Auckland for further training and to get away from her overprotective...
When we visited Key West, I noticed the Ernest Hemingway House Museum and suggested to my long-suffering husband that this could be our bit of "culture" for the day. Although I know of Hemingway, I've never read his books (I know. Big gasp.) but, other writers...
