I am totally delighted to announce that the third book in my Emma trilogy, EMMA AND HER DAUGHTER, is the first publication of the year for Choc Lit and is available for pre-order as an ebook on Amazon right now. Official launch date is 9th January 2015. Large print and audio rights have been sold.

I didn’t set out to write a trilogy, but when I’d finished the first book, TO TURN FULL CIRCLE, I realised that Emma’s story had really only just begun. So I wrote book two, EMMA: THERE’S NO TURNING BACK. Emma’s story could have ended there but there was the little matter of some unfinished business with a second love interest for Emma, Matthew Caunter. That unfinished business needed resolving for Emma, I thought – and I think Matthew will be pretty pleased I resolved it for him as well!

Dedications. It is so hard, isn’t it, to choose someone for a dedication? Whoever you choose there is always going to be someone who is a bit put out you haven’t chosen them. I dedicated TO TURN FULL CIRCLE to my son and my daughter, with a mention to my late, and very much loved and supportive, father. Book two I dedicated to my grandchildren, Alex and Emily, with a mention of a much loved aunt and uncle who were like parents to me. So, when’s Rog (my husband of 40 something years) going to get a book dedicated to him? people began to ask. And your mother? There was an accusatory edge to their question but my first two dedications were with my husband’s blessing and my mother died many years ago. EMMA AND HER DAUGHTER is for Rog, with a mention to my mother – the most skilled of dressmakers – who did her best to teach me how to sew and failed miserably. I like to think she’d raise a smile at the fact Emma picks up the needle in book three of my trilogy.

And acknowledgements. Gosh, I wanted to name every friend I’ve ever met, all the new Facebook friends I’ve made, every Twitter follower, but it’s just not possible, is it? But I am the sum of so many other parts so if I’ve missed you out it’s not because I don’t value your contribution to my life.

Happy reading everyone!