Congratulations to Gunda in Germany, who is the winner of the July website contest! Thank you so much for the bumper number of entries. The prize of delicious chocolates seemed to appeal to a lot of people! In this month’s contest I am offering a set of the Brides of Fortune trilogy plus a gorgeous [...]
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Today is Bob the Cat’s fifteenth birthday and to celebrate she has decided to give away some of my books. Bob was born the youngest of triplets. Now she is the only one left. Her sister Petra and brother Paddy – who was a huge, fluffy gorgeous, silver coloured fellow (and he [...]
Dr Johnson, compiler of the English Dictionary of 1755, defined the cat thus: “A domestick animal that catches mice, commonly reckoned by naturalists the lowest order of the leonine species.” I’m not sure what my pet cat Bob (Roberta) would make of being defined as the lowest of anything! She rates herself far more highly [...]
2011 has been something of a challenging year for me, as it has been for many people I know. On the positive side I have had two books out in my Scandalous Women of the Ton series, Notorious and Desired, and am just finishing the final book in the series, Forbidden. One Wicked Sin garnered [...]
It’s going to be an exciting week! First there are the blog winners! Congratulations to Bobby and to HJ whose names were chosen by Monty from the hat of dog biscuits (as it were) to receive ARCs of my new book Notorious! Please drop me a line at ncornick(at)madasafish.com with your mailing details so I [...]
Today when I asked Monty the Dog to choose the winner of the Dead Hot or Not discussion he grabbed two biscuits at once which means there are two prizewinners, Carrie and Laura T. It’s no wonder Monty is looking so pleased with himself! Both Carrie and Laura win copies of Unmasked. Congratulations to them and [...]
Here’s a story for you, Barb, and all the other dog-lovers amongst us! Yesterday I read in the paper about Danny, a greyhound, who visits a school in Staffordshire as a “listening dog.” Danny is part of a scheme that originated in the US called Reading Education Assistance Dogs which is designed to encourage young [...]
Last week on Facebook I commented on how Monty, my dog, had suddenly taken to spooking me on our evening walks. We have two routes we travel and on the evenings that we walk through the village we wander slowly along, Monty checking out each post and stone for interesting scents and me looking at [...]
Today is UK publication day for The Heart of Christmas anthology! Not just that, but I hear that the book is also available in Australia under the title of A Regency Christmas. Thank you to reader Jennifer for letting me know! And in Holland the Dutch translation of The Undoing of a Lady has been [...]
One of the “characters” in Whisper of Scandal is Max the terrier. Max, whose topknot ribbon is always colour-co-ordinated to Joanna’s gown, gives the impression of being lazy and – dare I say it – a little bit stupid, but of course like many dogs he simply has his world arranged to suit his own [...]