Abby Green is running a super contest…she’s giving away 2 hardbacks of her December UK release, Ruthless Greek Boss, Secretary Mistress to the first two people who email her and mention the title of that book. And she’s giving away 5 copies of her current book, Mistress to the Merciless Millionaire too. Just visit her site and check out her NEWS section for more on how to email her!

I hate to think how many weeks I’ve been working on my current book. To begin with I sent synopsis after synopsis to my editor, only to have her find something wrong with each one of them. I was really beginning to feel that I had lost the plot (no pun intended) until I finally got the go ahead.

But then everything conspired against me, my writing time appeared to be non-existent; I’ve only written about 4,000 words in over two weeks. I’ve firmly convinced myself that this book is going to die a painful death, either that or become a raving bestseller. Ha, ha!

Does anyone else have these problems? If so I’d love to know.

How can I go from always having another book in my head waiting to be written to – this? I don’t even know how this story is going to work out. I’m writing into the mist. Which is what I always used to do until editors requested synopses. The only good thing I can see about writing a synopsis is that it prevents writing a whole book that is ultimately going to be shredded to pieces. So it works like this, I get a synopsis approved, then the first three chapters (two in this case – which should tell me something!) then the whole book is sent in. After that there are usually revisions.

I’m writing this in the hope that it will tell newer writers who are perhaps struggling, that it still happens to even seasoned authors like myself.

How would you like to win a copy of one of my books?

Pop over to my website and answer the simple question there. The draw is taking place on October 1st so you have plenty of time.

Hi! Thank you We Write Romance for letting me visit. My name is Teryl Cartwright and my book is called A Sensible Match which is a Regency romance about the sometimes disastrous and sometimes wonderful results of matchmaking. Abby and Edwin, my fantastic and witty combatants, fight each other, their meddling families and fate itself. The big question for the reluctantly thrown together couple is simply this–can you choose whom to love?

Matchmaking is relevant today—not because of those annoying websites, but because we pick and choose everything from our schools to churches to home address. The internet has even given us freedom to choose relationships without the limits of geography, age or background. You just can’t get away from all the matchmaking we have around us! So I guess I wanted to write about matchmaking because it has a lot to do with the idea of whether we choose our destiny or it chooses us.

Why my enormous interest in matchmaking? I had it done to me (and it failed) until my husband and I decided to see why we were so “perfect for each other”. Some other neat facts about me—I have a horse which I snuck into the story, my favorite authors, Georgette Heyer and M.C. Beaton, were also “included” in this romance along with some inside jokes about being a pastor’s wife (which I know well).

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