oh, wow

Current work: Medical and nonfic
Listening to: Sheryl Crow
Reading: next on TBR

Lovely Julie Bonello has really made my day with her review of Good Girl or Gold Digger? over at Cataromance – and I’m utterly thrilled that it merited 5 stars! (The exclamation point there is most definitely deserved…)

This is what she had to say:

I adored Kate Hardy’s latest novel, Good Girl or Gold-Digger! Her heroine, Daisy, was fantastic. She was strong, feisty, resourceful and had a heart of gold, whilst Felix was a charming, sexy and well-defined hero I doubt any romance reader will be able to resist! I also found the fairground background to this story immensely fascinating. Kate Hardy always set her stories against such fascinating backgrounds, but she never lets them overwhelm the story or overshadow the romance.

Refreshing, captivating and feel-good, Good Girl or Gold Digger? is another winner from a fabulous writer whose name alone is sure-fire guarantee of high quality romantic fiction: Kate Hardy!

You can read the full review here. Thank you, Julie, for making my day.

Publication Day: Good Girl or Gold Digger

Current work: Just finished my revisions
Listening to: not today as everyone’s home and I’m working
Reading: Julia Quinn, It’s In His Kiss (I have Cher carolling in my head now – I remember really enjoying ‘Mermaids’ when it came out. Anyway, this is my first Julia Quinn and now I’m going to have to glom her backlist. Great pace, great dialogue and it made me laugh for the right reasons – I loved the hero’s grandmother)

Today is publication day for Good Girl or Gold Digger and I nearly forgot!

In my defence, I have been head down in revisions (second revisions, which are definitely more painful than first) and it’s half term and I haven’t actually been out of the house since Monday (have I mentioned that I was doing second revisions?).

But I have finished the revisions (please, please let my ed like them and not hit me with third revisions) and now I can sit back and celebrate publication day.

Starting with the cover, which has my favourite flowers on it. (I would've liked purple gerberas because of how Felix makes a declaration to Daisy, but you can't have everything. Otherwise I'd have Antonio Banderas on almost every cover, right?)

I loved writing this book. Even more fun was doing the research, which meant dragging children and husband round various working steam museums so we could go on original rides and steam trains. And it’s set in East Anglia, my favourite place in the world...

Have a nice weekend. And (provided we don’t get the threatened snow) I will be back on Monday with pictures from a research trip.