On Writing Romance

I've been writing as long as I can remember and all of my stories always held a thread of romance (even when I was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). I love creating unique characters, love giving them happy endings and I even love the voices in my head. There's no other job I would rather be doing. In September 2002, when I got the call that Silhouette Desire wanted to buy my first book, Desert Warrior, it was a dream come true. I hope to continue living the dream until I keel over of old age on my keyboard.

On Me

I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I’m back in New Zealand now, but I’m always plotting new trips. If you’d like to see some of my travel snapshots, have a look at the Travel Diary page (updated every month).

So far, I've worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, a bank temp and an English teacher and not necessarily in that order. Some might call that inconsistency but I call it grist for the writer's mill.

Vices

Books, chocolate and travel. Some of the books I love:

Rememberance by Jude Deveraux
The In Death books by JD Robb
The Darkhunter books by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi
Orchid, Amaryllis, Zinnia by Jayne Castle
Lady Love by Diana Palmer
Loving Evangeline by Linda Howard
The Heralds of Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey
Othello by William Shakespeare
Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Interviews

League of Reluctant Adults (February 2008)
Two Lips Reviews (February 2008)
Onirik (December 2007)
Romance Bandits (November 2007)
Historical Romance Club (November 2007)
FAR Author Spotlight (October 2007)
The Motivated Writer (September 2007)
Once Upon A Romance (April 2007)
Sara Hantz’s Weblog (Feburary 2007)
Night Owl Romance (February 2007)
Coffee Time Romance (January 2007)
PNR Interview (January 2007)
Fallen Angel reviews (2006)
Milady Insanity (2006)
Sunburnt Author (2006)
Bookloons (2006)
Romance Readers Connection(2006)
Candy Havens' Journal (2006)
Romance Writers of Australia

Author photo by Ashwini Singh

Travel Diary (see more here)

Dolphins in the Hauraki Gulf