September 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
This is me and Michelle Styles at the Mills & Boon author party last night in London. I was relieved to see Michelle looking so well after her recent car accident. It was also great to congratulate her officially on the sale of her book GLADIATOR’S HONOUR to Mills & Boon Historicals. The editors dropped some tantalising hints about her cover, which I can’t wait to see!
The party was great fun; M&B authors are some of the nicest people around and the editorial staff are without exception friendly, professional, and interesting. I was a little surprised to find that several editors had read my book BEING A BAD GIRL…seems like my hero Oz has been making the rounds a bit. Which is fine with me.
And of course I had far, far too much champagne. As is probably apparent from the above photo, I find it impossible to say no to the stuff. Anyway, it was a good painkiller for my toe, which I’d forced into a suede boot.
Medicals and Modern Extra author Kate Hardy took the above photo (thanks lovely Kate!), and also this nice one of the two of us together.
You can see more photos on her blog today.
Afterwards Michelle and I met up with Biddy and we had dinner at a great Italian place. Linguini and clams…mmmmmm…I think I still stink of garlic.
(And yes, the clams were Zen-like.)
So it’s with a big garlicky sloppy kiss that I thank my friends and readers for getting me past 20,000 hits since December! Yay!
Donna Alward says:
Michelle and I could be twins….I also get very rosy in the cheeks…especially after champagne!
You look like you had a Maaahvelous time. Insanely jealous.
Michelle says:
Oooh, I’m so jealous. Maybe one day I can join all of you. Cheers!
Michelle Styles says:
Julie was totally glam.
She is a Star of the ModX-squad.
I would like to point out that pic was taken late in the proceedings btw.
Kate Hardy says:
Late in the proceedings? Late? (Checks time on camera. Allows for fact that my clocks are always 6 mins fast.) Hmm. It was about 7pm, 3/4 of the way through. (But I think they’d stopped serving champagne by then because of the amount of merry romance authors in the room…)
Anna Lucia says:
Waves, WAVES of jealousy.
But glows, GLOWS of pride, too, just to know you guys.
*VBG*
Julie says:
It wasn’t that late. My eyes weren’t crossed yet.