I’ve had a really crazy week, but a satisfying one. Monday through Wednesday, I was teaching a Cornerstones course on writing women’s commercial fiction, and it was a really rewarding experience. The group was absolutely wonderful. Whenever I teach writing I feel like I learn at least as much as I teach, and this was no exception. It was a brilliant time.
I barely had time to recover before I picked up and went to London for the afternoon. First, I researched the setting for the beginning of Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom, by walking up and down the King’s Road in Chelsea and doing a little bit of light shopping. (Hard work, but someone needs to do it.) I actually bought a dress and ended up, elegantly, changing in the women’s loo at Brown’s Bar and Brasserie in Covent Garden, before meeting up with many friends and colleagues for a Mills & Boon author drinks do. I met up with many dear friends, but only took one photo, which is of us Modern Heat girls:
From back left to right: me in new dress, Natalie Anderson all the way from New Zealand, Kate Hardy, winner of the 2008 RNA Romance Prize, and 2008 Rita finalist Heidi Rice.
Kate Hardy has some more pics on her blog (along with a caption competition to win her book), and Ray-Anne (aka Nina Harrington) has an account on hers, too.
I am ashamed to say that from the way I felt on Friday morning, I deduced that I may have drunk more than was good for me.
Yesterday was spent with friends and Fecklet chatting in the sun. And today, I am being B. H. Dark, and editing some sex scenes to make them hotter. What a hardship.
Lovely to see you, Julie (you and your amazing shoes!).
Hope the hangover went quickly
Lovely to see you too, Kate!
My hangover…went. It takes longer these days. Liver getting old like the rest of me.
Hi Julie – just a correction to your caption… Natalie is from New Zealand, not Australia! (gasp)
DOH!! And that is the second time I’ve made that mistake. I am so ashamed. And Natalie, I am so sorry.
I’ve corrected it.