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Thanks, Nett!  I'm planning something for Josie...  Something a bit naughty!

 Liz

He is just so talented, Jayne.  The work on his website is beautiful and his covers are lovely.  I particularly yearn for one he did recently for one of Shirley Jump's HRs.  Just the bride's hands holding a bouquet. 

 Liz

Wow...

 Thank you all so much.  I promise I'm not jigging so hard that I'm driving the muse away.  Actually she's on holiday so that's not going to happen. Maybe the commotion will bring her back?

Retire?  Well, I'm not writing as fast as I used to, but since the books seem to be getting deeper and deeper that's really not surprising, but I've finally sweated out three chapters of the wip.  I'm hoping the pace is going to pick up now.  There are a couple of books on the stack to keep you going.  A nice little sheikh novella that my editor described as "exciting" and she rarely gets that free with words.  And a follow-up to Reunited -- Miranda's story.  I'd probably better keep her response to that one to myself.   Be assured I've been taking risks again!

(50 books this year?  Jessica Hart and Kate Walker!)

Okay, back to the cave...

Love, Liz

 Love, Liz

Thanks so much, Rae.  I'm just so thrilled about Trish Wylie, Natasha Oakley and Linda Goodnight, too.   Harlequin Romance authors did good!

 Best, Liz

Oh dear.  Where to begin.

I suspect the one thing I should change is the habit of going to my emails with my first cup of tea instead of going straight to the book.  Somewhere, over the last couple of years, I've become an internet junkie and it's providing a perfect distraction from the absolutely focus that writing requires.

Every night I tell myself that tomorrow I'll go straight to the hut at the bottom of the garden and work until breakfast.  No emails until lunch. 

Every morning I fall from the straight and narrow.  But if only I had a little willpower, that's the thing I'd change.

 Liz

I so wish I could be there!  Waves of envy are coming at you from the other side of the Atlantic

Liz

There's no excuse, Bonsai.  Okay, we sometimes just lose focus for a moment or two and mistakes slip in, but the editor reads it, the copy editor reads it -- and they are a picky lot, believe me -- and then the author reads it again at page proof stage.  I guess the brain just reads what it expects to read and it takes a totally fresh eye to pick up on these things. 

 Worse, for me, are the really bad mistakes.  I once read a book where the author had the wrong river as the border between South Africa and what is now Zimbabwe.  Major best-selling thriller writer.  How could I believe another thing he wrote if he didn't get that right?

Liz