I've seen the sun - hooray, spring must be on its way! Had a wonderful Christmas, New Year, and birthday all here in Spain, and now I'm definitely in work and fitness mode. Thinking of running a 10K in April, so must get those trainers out...
Right now, I'm halfway through my next book, the third in the Secret Shopper series, which will be published early in 2011. Poor old Sandie, Emily, Grazia and Kelly - I've got some nasty stuff in store for them, along with a few treats, too. And I'm also having fun brainstorming my next books for after that, so watch this space.
If you haven't read The Secret Shopper Unwrapped yet, it's still in the stores, with the girls about to embark on adventures that will test their friendship to the limit – and a brand new shopper with a very secret agenda.
You can read the first chapter right here.
Then in paperback, there's a new version of Old School Ties, my debut novel - the book was first published in 2003 and control freak that I am, I couldn’t let it go out without some tweaking. I’ve written six novels since that book, and I hope I’ve learned a few things along the way, so the book is like the Director’s Cut of a movie – with lots of teeny changes. I think it’s better for it... You can read all about the process involved in re-editing it on the Romantic Novelists' Association blog - or sample the freshly tweaked first chapter.
If you want to write, then you can join me at my latest face-to-face course on women’s fiction at Kingston in March 2010. You can enrol online, with a discount for enrolments before February 14.
You can read extracts from all my books here, and if you’re a new writer yourself, find out how to make your big break happen in the Writer's Toollkit. If you want to send an email, you can contact me here. And to keep up to date with my writing life, you can check out my blog where I've just started a project of taking a photo a day for the next year. Or follow me on Twitter - I'm KateWritesBooks. I do try to keep this site updated but it's a bit of a faff, so until I go for a site refresh (planned for later this year), all my news is on the blog.
Thanks for popping by - and hope the sun is shining for you too!
Kate x
