Full of tension, mystery and real-life drama, Dark Ride is not to be missed.
Voting is now open for the Romantic Novel of the Year. Anyone is allowed to vote so follow this link to the RoNA webpage for more details…
http://www.rna-awards.com/vote-for-your-romantic-novel-of-the-year/
Voters will be entered into a prize draw and you could win an iPad 2. What are you waiting for?!
On Monday I put on my glad rags (and highest heels) and went along to the Romantic Novelist’s Association Awards. It was a very glitzy and exciting setting at One Whitehall Place and I was thrilled even to be on the shortlist. But the cherry on the icing on the cake was that Dark Ride won the award in the Young Adult category. It was such an incredible experience and one I will never forget. Commiserations to my brilliant fellow shortlistees – LA Weatherly, Sita Brahmachari and fellow Piccadilly Press author, Tamsyn Murray. I’d also like to congratulate the winners of the other categories: Katie Fforde’s Summer of Love won the Contemporary Romantic Novel award; Rosie Thomas won the Epic Romantic Novel award with The Kashmir Shawl; Christina Courtenay won the Historical Romantic Novel award with Highland Storms and Jane Lovering won the Romantic Comedy award for her novel Please Don’t Stop the Music. Thank you to everyone from the RNA who voted for my book and who helped make it such
a magical evening.
I had the great pleasure today of doing a writing workshop with the Year Sixes at Campsbourne School in Alexandra Palace. All the children and teachers were dressed up as book characters and everyone had made a huge effort. There were prizes for the best bits of writing and I was hugely impressed by so many of them, it was very hard to choose winners! Thanks again to the children and staff of Campsbourne School for inviting me over.
