Julie Cohen

my new cover…

Julie — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:38:22 +0000

For Honey Trap, out this July:

Gorgeous, isn’t it?

Here’s the blurb:

Sophie Tennant is used to sticky situations…

Because Sophie used to be a private investigator, setting honey traps for husbands and giving wives ground for divorce. But these days she’s an aromatherapist–an aromatherapist who’s going on tour with a rock band, baby! Which is all good, until she recognises the band’s bassist, Dominick Steele: her first honey trap, and the man who taught her she has a lethal attraction to bad boys. But her attraction’s not half as lethal as the vengeful spouse who suddenly seems to be following her!

Will there be a sweet ending–or a sting in the tale?

my mom’s birthday

Julie — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:54:55 +0000

Today is my mom’s birthday. I haven’t been able to get in touch with her because she’s been busy with her sisters, being appropriately and deservedly pampered.

So I’m wishing her a happy birthday on the world wide web. If you’ve got a moment, wish her a happy birthday in the comments because she would be tickled!

back.

Julie — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:38:30 +0000

And I have spent the last 13 hours sleeping as I didn’t get a lot of sleep while I was there. How I wish I could say that was because I was partying all night, but it had more to do with jetlag, sharing a bed and with helping with the night shift looking after my grandmother.

For my mother and my aunt, and all those who care for the terminally or chronically ill: I salute you. It’s a hard job, every minute of every day.

I’m spending today reading over my draft of Girl from Mars and hopefully my brain will be de-fuzzed enough to be able to figure out what I need to do for revisions.

off to the mother land

Julie — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:08:32 +0000

I’ve sort of finished my first draft. And tomorrow morning I’m flying to the US to see a family member who is ill.

I’ll be back next week–see you then.

Meanwhile, here is a link to really excellent review of Mistress In Private (aka All Work and No Play…) in French. It’s out there next month as Une Passione Anglaise.

Blue Moon review

Thanks to Callixta and to Marnie!

an admission, brought about by listening to 80s radio on the internet

Julie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:56:55 +0000

You know, when I was a teenager, I was quite embarrassingly besotted with the music of Air Supply.

enthusiasm

Julie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:38:15 +0000

Tra la la, here I am, happy as a clam because my back is feeling so much better, hey, I think it’s a good idea to take my child to the park! Yay, what fun! Lift him up! Swing him round! Push the pushchair!

Oof, you know that sorta…hurts. Well, actually, it really hurts.

Actually it really really hurts.

Damn.

Oh well, more rest for me this weekend. And no more enthusiasm.

I’m off to set something on fire in my wip.

Bestsellerdom strikes again!

Julie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:08:10 +0000

Oh and the thing I wanted to say while I was locked out of my website…?

Mistress in Private has been in the Waldenbooks top ten bestselling series romance novels for the past two weeks.

Yippee!!

a tricky bit

Julie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:33:41 +0000

I’ve been locked out of my own website for a few days, so sorry for being behind! Fortunately my whiz of a webmistress knows all and has sorted it out for me.

My back is slowly getting better, with the help of rest, painkillers, and homeopathic remedies (I’ve got arnica, thanks for reminding me of it, Jan!). I’m not writing as much as I would like, but I’m managing some, usually in bed typing on my Dana with a heating pad on my shoulder.

I’m sort of at a tricky bit in the book, where several plot threads get wound up but the most important ones get more intense. And yeah, I’ve got the crows. It’s a little different this time because I actually like this book a lot. The heroine is totally one of my favourites, ever. But I worry that nobody else will like it. I also worry that a couple of the threads resolve too easily.

Plus I don’t know yet whether the hero goes back to America at the end, yet. “American Boy” has come on the radio every time I’ve been in the car, and I really like that song, so that makes me think, yeah. I’ll write a scene set in America. But then I look at mounting word count (I’m at 90,000, which was my original goal) and wonder if it would be simpler if they just stayed in London.

Playing God with my characters gets too darn complicated sometimes.

Anyway, back to the writing.

Currently reading: Yorkshire’s Murderous Women: Two Centuries of Killing by Stephen Wade (what a title!)

cake

Julie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:02:47 +0000

It hurts to walk, and to move, and to play with Fecklet, and to do housework, and to drive the car, and to sit in a normal chair, and to type. (Which means I owe lots of people emails–sorry.)

The only thing it does not hurt to do is to lie in bed reading. And to eat cake.

Sigh.

Currently reading: An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

Pink Heart Society

Julie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:19:11 +0000

Oh and on a more cheerful note than below, I’m guest-blogging over at category romance blogazine The Pink Heart Society today, about one of my favourite ever films, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Visit here.