Romy Sommer

If you're here looking for the next instalment in my Behind the Scenes series, my apologies. Those posts take a little time to put together, and since I've been kept busy on a shoot for a headache tablet commercial (and the house we were shooting in had zero signal) the next post will be delayed. In the meantime, I've gotten my rights back to Let's Misbehave and have been re-writing it ready to self-publish. There are moments when I see flashes of brilliance, but mostly I'm thanking all the writing gods for the opportunity to edit. There are 'had's and 'that's all over the place, and my characters 'notice' or 'watch' everything around them. Happily, I not only get to fix these basics, but to add more depth to the characters. The new and improved version will be available on Amazon later this coming week. Here's a sneak peek at the new cover, courtesy of Viola Estrella .

Welcome to the final instalment in the Dear Julia Launch Wave. Thank you to all the lovely authors who’ve hosted this wave, and to all you readers who’ve followed the story and tweeted. Here is the full list of participating blogs: Stop 1 - Minxes of Romance Stop 2 - Sally Clements Stop 3 - Rachel Bailey Stop 4 - Scarlet Wilson Stop 5 - Olivia Miles Stop 6 - Jennifer Shirk Stop 7 - Suzanne Jones Stop 8 - you are here! * * *  Dear Julia is set in the English countryside in the early 1920s, and is part of the Love Letters series from The Wild Rose Press. Read the opening extract here . Extract Eight On the first sunny day after the rainy spell, she dressed in her prettiest frock, a frosty pink silk and lace concoction, and set off across the fields towards the Manor. The sun warmed her bare head and arms, birds sang in the trees, and her spirit soared. Her objective was in sight. The Manor lay beyond the village, hidden from the road by a veritable forest...

My new 1920s novella, Dear Julia , released yesterday through The Wild Rose Press. To celebrate its release, I'm running a contest on my Rae Summers blog where you can win a free copy. Tomorrow is Launch Wave day. I'll be sharing the opening chapter, spread across 8 blogs. Check back here to follow the wave, which starts at Minxes of Romance and ends right here. * * * About Dear Julia The discovery of a long-lost love letter in a house she’s redecorating sends Rosalie Stanton on a quest to find its rightful owner. Since his return from the Great War, William Cavendish has lived as a recluse. His peaceful existence is shattered by the return of the letter that once held all his hopes — and by its bearer, the irrepressible Rosalie, who bears an uncanny resemblance to his lost love. As Rosalie sets out to lure William back into society, she realises that in him she might just have met her match. You can buy the book at Amazon, Amaxon UK and direct from ...

My alter ego (Rae Summers) is participating in a blog tour with nine other authors from The Wild Rose Press for the next four Wednesdays. Please visit my other blog and support me on the tour. Today I'm hosting my lovely crit partner, Sally Clements . The tour is Christmas-themed so you'll be able to get holiday ideas, recipes, as well as pick up some new holiday reads. Each blog is also running a tour contest, which means that you have ten chances to win! For more information on the participating authors, the prizes they're offering, and who is visiting where and when, click here: http://rosestour.blogspot.com/ To find out more about the contest I'm running, click here , and to see what I have to say about my TBR pile, drop by PL Parker's blog .

So it seems that we may be waiting a little longer than expected for the announcement of the Top 10 finalists in the New Voices contest . Hardly surprising since the editors and judges have 824 entries to read this weekend, and among them are a whole lot of fantastic chapters. So while we wait, please check out the SA Romance Writers blog for a list of South African entrants, and show your support for the burgeoning talent from this southern-most tip of Africa. I've been really thrilled to find so many entries featuring Africa or South Africans. Over at Minxes of Romance are links to the New Voices entries by me and my crit partners, and in the most recent post you can also find out what writing romance and trees have in common. And last, but not least, on my Rae Summers blog I'm starting a new series of posts: Cocktail Fridays. On the Friday closest to pay day each month (25th) I'll be bringing you a new cocktail recipe from the 1920s. Kicking off the series is...

My alter ego, Rae Summers, is currently participating in a blog tour with a group of lovely authors from The Wild Rose Press to promote her release of Let's Misbehave . At the end of August the tour will be rounded up with an amazing give-away to one lucky commenter. So if you'd like a chance to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on one of the participating blogs during the month of August. To view the prize, visit Rae's blog at http://raesummers.wordpress.com and leave a comment on one of the blog tour posts.

I'd like to introduce you all to my alter ego, Rae Summers, soon to be a published author with Wild Rose Press. Rae has her own blog over at http://raesummers.wordpress.com On the advice of friends, and the inestimable Kate Walker, I've decided to 'save' my own name for Harlequin and use a pseudonym for the rather more risque historical short stories I write. And so Rae Summers was born. Coming tomorrow ... you get a sneak peek at my first ever book cover.