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Kernel ideas and dreams

Two of the blogs I follow have both had posts recently that dove-tailed together really well to remind me of just what inspired me to write my last two stories. Bob Mayer did a post on the kernel idea of every story, and Sue Moorcroft has also been running a series of guest posts about dreams to celebrate the release of her latest novel, Dream a Little Dream . The characters of my Nano novel, Waking up in Vegas, first came to me in a dream back in 2009 in which a Prince made a stirring coronation speech, and watching in the crowd was the great love of his life, a very ordinary young woman. Yes, very Prince & Me . Once Upon a Time , my previous book, also began as a dream, in which a young woman with a super rich Daddy works for a charity that occupies space in her father's building and who is very 'off' men as she is constantly being hit on by men who only want her for her Daddy's money and favour. The story changed a good deal from there, but the charact...

Thank you, Mills & Boon

The Mills & Boon editors have posted a crit of my New Voices entry, Once Upon a Time , on the NV site. You can read it here . Both writing this entry and the editors' feedback, have given me an ah-hah moment regarding cliches (the art of using and avoiding them) which I've blogged about over at The Minxes' blog today. To all the editors and other worker bees at Harlequin Mills & Boon thank you for running this contest, and thank you for taking the time to give feedback.