This promises to be an exciting spring:  Dance for a Diamond comes out in Large Print, and in April  there is the publication of my latest book, The Belles Dames Club. This book was really fun to write and research, for it is set in the 1780's and covers such diverse subjects highway robbery, slavery and gambling.  The idea for The Belles Dames Club came to me when I was thinking about the gentlemen's clubs of the eighteenth century such as White's or Brooks's.   I suddenly thought, why should the men have all the fun?  So my ladies form their own secret club to meet, drink, gamble and generally enjoy themselves, and when one of ther members is persecuted by a gentleman, they use their combined forces to give him a taste of his own medicine.   I don't want to give away too much of the plot here, but that particular episode is based upon a story reported in the eighteenth century: it might just be a folk tale, but it may well have happened.

Looking forward,  I am attending the West Country Writers Association Congress in Worcester in May: having been born andbrought up in Bristol, my roots are still firmly in the West Country and it is lovely to keep in touch.  In June I travel to the USA where I am taking part in the Historical Novel Society Conference in Albany, NY.  This is going to be very exciting, and a great chance to meet and talk to others with a love of history.  Bernard Cornwell and Diana Gabaldon are two of the speakers, so I am looking forward to a very interesting weekend.  Then in July there is the Romantic Novelists Association Conference in Leicester.  As a long time member of the RNA I love the chance to meet up with other like-minded writers, exchange news, views and information.  So there's plenty on the schedule for 2007, and that's not to mention to hours required to keep writing......

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I now have three e-books published by Belgrave House, sparkling historical advetnures all set at the end of the 18th century / Regency period in a downloadable format.

 FORTUNE'S LADY features Lady Rosalyn Tremayne, who returns to London to take her place in Society.  She is not looking for a husband but when she attracts the attention of the hopelessly ineligible Rake Hellborn, Lady Rosalyn turns convention on its head to achieve her happiness.

In SUMMER CHARADE Miss Christine Harpollet leanrs that she is to be sacrified upon  the matrimonial altar and decides to take matters into her own hands. Her subsequent adventures throw her into the path of Giles Malshangar, but even when she thinks herself safe, her erstwhile suitor is seeking a terrible revenge.

Major Lagallan suggests to Miss Caroline Hetton that she should marry his young brother Vivyan, and at first sight he is the perfect bridegroom, but Caroline is disturbed by his restless spirit and his taste for adventure that eventualyl endangers not only his life, but hers, too.  In AUTUMN BRIDE we meet for the first time characters from a later novel, The Dream Chasers.