June 2008

Dear Readers: It's been almost a year since my last book was published and many of you have e-mailed to ask what is going on. What has happened is that I'm with a new publisher, Berkley, and my editor wants to bring out two books fairly close together. The first, The Runaway McBride, is due out in February 2009, and the second should be published shortly after that. So, I haven't stopped writing. I still have lots of stories to tell.

My new editor is my old editor, Wendy McCurdy, who found my first book in her slush pile many years ago. Zebra reissued that book, Bluestocking Bride, and all the books I'd written for them, quite recently. Cheers!

I've just returned from a research trip to Scotland. You can read all about it on another page on my web site. It was glorious! It was freezing cold! But mosts of all, it was expensive! If you're planning a trip to the old country, you have been warned. The price of gas! The cost of hotel rooms! The cost of a cup of coffee - they're all out of sight. It made me count my blessings in Canada. No more whining from me about the cost of living.

To add insult to injury, I was robbed in London the first day I arrived. In a coffee house! One hundred pounds lifted out of my purse as I was drinking my coffee. And I thought I was being vigilant.

We took a week out for a quick trip to Greece, an Insight bus tour around all the touristy places - the Acropolis in Athens, Mycenea, Olympia, Delphi and so on. I've always loved Mary Stewart's romantic suspense novels set in Greece, and who knows where my own muse will take me one of these days. I can just see it, my heroine, on the run, joins a bus tour. If she's in Greece, she'll need a stout pair of walking shoes and stouter lungs to climb up and down all those mountains where the archeological sites are. And I'll know just how she feels when she forces herself to go on when her lungs are collapsing and her feet feel like lumps of lead. The hero could be one of the passengers on the bus, or the tourist guide perhaps . . . or . . . and so it goes on.

If you want to read more about my new series, check the opening page on my web site and take the link to my PhotoGallery. Both books contain elements of the paranormal. Here are my two other books that contain a touch of the paranormal:

You Only Love Twice   The Pleasure Trap

Warmest regards,.

Elizabeth

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