The Good, the Bad and the Wild shortlisted for The RoNa Rose Award... It's Official!

All's fab in Heidi-land today with the announcement of the RoNa Rose Award shortlist.

I'm chuffed to bits (and slightly gobsmacked) to say that The Good, the Bad and the Wild has been shortlisted this year. Shouting out to Scarlet Wilson, Fiona Harper, Sarah Mallory and Carol Townend to send them congratulations too on their nominations. I'm honoured to be on the list with such brilliant fellow authors. And I'm also pretty excited about having a great excuse to buy a new frock!

Here's the full list (with the Wonderful Ms Wilson listed twice!) of the nominated books.

Read it and weep – I certainly am! Who'd have thought that my bad boy Nick - who refused to talk to me for most of the time I was writing this book - would end up getting me onto a list like this. Nice one Nick, all is forgiven.

Happy New Year... Five Go Wild in Connemara!

Happy New Year everyone... Let's hope 2013 is a stunner.

I certainly started the year off right, am just back from a wonderful writer's retreat at Delphi Lodge in Connemara with fabulous fellow authors Chantelle Shaw, Caitlyn Crews, Abby Green and Fiona Harper. I have a whole album of photos on my Facebook page, but frankly you can't take a bad picture in that staggeringly beautiful landscape.

And the Lodge itself is the perfect place to relax, indulge and feed the body and the soul with some great craic beside a roaring fire or over a three-course meal. Each evening after a day of wandering, soaking up the mystery and magic of Ireland's dramatic Atlantic Coast, we would retire to the Lodge to solve plotting problems, discuss the genesis of the alpha hero and generally laugh ourselves silly over the trials and tribulations of being a romance writer. Ah, it's a tough life....


To celebrate the dawn of 2013 - which I hope will be a great year for my writing - I'm giving away a Quiet Man Calendar which I picked up in the gift shop in the grounds of the majestic Kylemore Abbey and a copy of my Brody Brothers Special Release, PS I'm Pregnant - featuring two gorgeous Irish heroes.

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