BBC Radio Newcastle, Mills & Boon and me

BBC Radio Newcastle is doing a piece on the Mills & Boon centenary on the Drive By show with Martin Emmerson and Anne Leuchars today at 4:25 pm. As part of the piece, I get to be interviewed. BBC Radio Newcastle has a listen again feature, so if you want to hear the piece you can do.

It should be great fun as today is the official publication date for Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife.

I am always delighted to talk about Mills & Boon and why the books are so successful.

The centenary exhibition And then he kissed her... opened yesterday at the Manchester Central Library btw. You can read about the exhibit plus see the poster here.

I have sent my latest newsletter out and it does have a contest. Over the weekend, I will be blogging at Tote Bags n Blogs and at Unusual Historicals. There will be a contest to win a copy of VWUW (or whichever of my published books the winner prefers) at both those blogs.

Mills & Boon Centenary Gift Items

I received a packet from Mills & Boon today, detailing some of the interesting items that have been produced for the centenary.

One is a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle featuring ten Mills and Boon covers from Ravensburger. Sarah Stevens of Ravensburger said "Many of our loyal puzzlers are also fans of Mills & Boon novels, so like the heroes and heroines of the books, ours is a perfect match."
I know my children are fans of puzzles and we always have one on the go. Recently I discovered the Jigsaw Puzzle Gallery and sure enough, they have copies of the Mills & Boon puzzle in stock. They also have a special promotion on -- buy 3 1000 or 1500 piece puzzles from Ravensburger and get the cheapest one for free. Just right for the upcoming Easter holidays...

There are the greeting cards from Peachey Keen, a divison of The Greetings Factory. They are highly amusing but I am having trouble finding them online. So I can't give a link...

Apparently there will other items coming as well...

The other big promotional item are the packs of money off coupons -- good for use in the UK or on the Mills and Boon website. They sent me 2 books of the coupons. I will be giving them away in my next newsletter which comes out in early April...

Kate Hardy's 25th Book blog party

Kate Hardy is having a stupendous blog party to celebrate the pbulication of her 25th book for M&B. That is 25 books in five years. I think I shall sit down now because you also have to add in her nonfiction In short, I am not sure how many she has written with her various different hats. The woman gives Isaac Asminov a run for his money.

There is a prize per day to be won. It is mostly commenting to be drawn out of a hat. Very simple. My own contributuion will be up at some point and I have offered a signed copy of The Roman's Virgin Mistress.

Because of problems with Bravenet, Kate has just transferred to blogger. And you can find her posts at http://katehardy.blogspot.com/