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Finally, we have bid goodbye to 2020.  A year of lockdowns, worldwide illness has certainly made it a year to remember, for all the wrong reasons. It has been a time to reassess what is important in life - and I for one, have been down-on-my-knees grateful to the artists of all persuasions who live […]

Home  to Stay  A new book in the hugely popular Katherine Bay series is now available for pre-order on all e-Book sales platforms - available March 31st. Amazon  Barnes&Noble  Kobo iBookstore  and for pre-sale on Smashwords  Her problems bring them together, but only a miracle can erase their differences—    Wounded in a nasty divorce, Willow […]

I attended a meeting of our local chapter of Romance Writers of New Zealand and it was sobering to realize that I am now a senior member of our local group and RWNZ too - not quite the oldest, but not far off - but you won’t hear me say that out loud.  Our Coast […]

I have recently added two new books for my readers just in time for Christmas and summer reading Echoes From The Heart Is now  available for pre-order on Amazon  My wife Sophia, did not give birth to you … Anna Belmonte’s life and identity are ripped from her by a posthumous letter from her father. […]

This past year has been really busy In December 2015 we sold our old home with its big garden and have built ourselves a new home with a pocket handkerchief garden. We moved in December 2016.   My writing room has a wonderful outlet looking up to the hills … something that pleases me as we’ve […]

Coming Soon The Farmer Takes A Wife : Book Three in The Mulleins of Katherine Bay   Excerpt Heath Mullein swore as ice hit bare skin. Hail clumped and tipped off the brim of his sou’wester and slid down his neck. A fitting end to a rotten day. This morning he’d found the stud Angus […]

Something about beginning a new year makes one re-assess one’s goals. I’ve never been one for making New Year’s Resolutions. Life is far too short to waste on meaningless rituals and for many folk this is exactly what NYR are. I prefer to quietly set myself a goal, and this is the important part, an acheivable goal, and work […]