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"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains."
-Peggy Noonan

In April, I was delighted to join radio presenter (and fellow Choc Lit author) Chris Penhall on her show, Books and Tunes. Books and Tunes is a weekly West Wiltshire radio show, where Chris talks to writers and readers about books and publishing. Needless to say, the friendly, informative chat is interspersed with music. I was one of two guests in the hour long show (episode 5) and although it’s always daunting to be a guest on a radio show, fortunately Chris made it feel as if we were just chatting over a coffee and not recording a show.

It is with deep regret  I have to share the news that the summer paperback release of Daughter of the House, has been delayed.  It was due to be released in June/July of 2020, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent lockdown of bookshops, paperback sales temporary plummeted. This resulted in books remaining on the shelves of shops and warehouses, causing, I assume, a bottleneck as the print deadlines of summer books approached. Unfortunately, Daughter of the House was one of them.

I was shocked, but thrilled, to be informed on New Years Day that Daniel's Daughter had jointly won the Chicks Rogues and Scandals Historical Fiction Novel Award. What a wonderful way to start the year!

What is the Chicks, Rogues and Scandals book blog?

At the end of 2020, just when lockdown restrictions were tightening across the country again and an atmosphere of doom and gloom had returned to dampen the festive period, I received the most amazing news from my publisher. I was informed that my sixth novel in the Cornish Tales series, Daniel’s Daughter, was a FINALIST for the Romantic Novelists Association’s HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD!