- Sunday, 5th September, 10am to 1pm - I'm doing a workshop with my very talented friend Christine Wells on Writing a Romance that Sells for the Brisbane Writers Festival.
- Wednesday, 8th September, 5:30pm - Christine Wells and I will be doing a talk and a signing at Dymocks, Brisbane City (Cnr Albert and Elizabeth Streets). Refreshments will be served and the event is free. For bookings and more information, please contact Kimberley on (07) 3007 2800 or email her.
- Thursday, 23rd September, 5:30pm to 7pm - I'm doing a talk for the Friends of the Maroochydore Library at the library (44 Sixth Avenue, Cotton Tree). Refreshments and prizes. For bookings, please call (07) 5475 8900.
Check out this really nice
Top Pick review of
MY RECKLESS SURRENDER at Romance Reader at Heart. Shannon said:
"Wow! MY RECKLESS SURRENDER is a hot one! Brash and bold, featuring seduction at its finest, this Campbell offering is amazing. Made up of unforgettable characters and a plot unlike any other I have read, I don't regret one single moment of time spent reading it!"
If you get the chance, pick up a copy of the October edition of
Romantic Times Book Reviews (out now). There's a really fun interview I did with
USA Today bestseller
Elizabeth Boyle. I love the remarks RT made about the interview in their email alert to subscribers:
"Our interview this month is with Elizabeth Boyle, who has the honored distinction of receiving 4.5 Top Picks for every book she has written (except one, which received 4 stars!) since her career began in 1997. That's 16 Top Picks out of 17 books published! This month we asked Aussie author Anna Campbell (who is following in Boyle's footsteps with all five of her books receiving 4.5 stars and four out of the five receiving a Top Pick), to interview Boyle, not realizing they not only were colleagues but also long-distance pals. The interview is fun, personal and very candid. So this month you get two great authors in one great interview!"
I had a magnificent time in all my travels. I adored
RomCon and would definitely go again. It was such fun to talk romance fiction for a couple of days with people who are as crazy about it as I am. It was also such a treat having the chance to see something of Colorado which is even more spectacular than I was expecting - and that's saying something!
Then I swung by New York and Washington and ended my U.S. travels at the
Romance Writers of America conference in Orlando. It was lovely to catch up with most of the
Romance Bandits in one place and to see so many of my other writing friends. Highlights of the conference for me included sitting at the same table on awards night as romance legend
Julia Quinn who won her third RITA (for
WHAT HAPPENS IN LONDON) and as a result was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Congratulations, Julia! Another major highlight was seeing Romance Bandit
Beth Andrews win the RITA for best contemporary series romance for her sublime
A NOT-SO-PERFECT PAST. Congratulations, Beth. The gold lady looks fabulous in the lair!
A few days home and then I headed down to Sydney for the annual
Romance Writers of Australia annual conference. For the first time, the
Australian Romance Readers Association held a book signing in conjunction with the conference. Here's a fun photo from that event of me with uber-romance fan Helen Sibbritt and
Christine Wells. Again, it's always wonderful to see my Aussie romance writing friends. I participated in two panels, one on writing historical romance and one on selling books to New York publishers. I'd particularly like to congratulate the winner of this year's Anna Campbell award for the highest placing historical manuscript in the Emerald Award. I was thrilled and excited when I presented a check for $200 and the offer to critique the first three chapters of a manuscript to Allison Withers for her medieval "The Border Laird's Bride."
I know that's a bit of a précis of an awful lot of wonderful traveling! But I could be here for weeks if I told you everything. I've put up a stack of fun photos in the
My Favorite Things section this month so that should give you a taste of all the mirth and mayhem!
Finally, a couple of great books to watch out for this month. Firstly, if you want something a bit different and sizzling hot, why not try
Christina Phillips's fabulous historical
FORBIDDEN. This tale of forbidden love (well, you get that from the title, don't you?) between a Druid priestess and a Roman aristocrat in ancient Britain is absolutely riveting. It's Christina's debut and I can't wait to see what she does next.
Next, for a bit of breathtaking action, why not try
Jeanne Adams's latest romantic suspense
DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS. I love Jeanne's books. They're edge-of-the-seat reads and she writes gorgeous heroes. Not only that, but she's famous in the
Romance Bandits lair for her way with BOOM! How can you resist? Even better, this book looks at crime in the art world, a subject I always find utterly fascinating.
My last recommendation for September is from another
Romance Bandit, Tawny Weber. Tawny singlehandedly turned me into a Harlequin Blaze reader (although since then, wonderful writers like
Sarah Mayberry and
Kathleen O'Reilly have kept me coming back for more) with her sexy, clever, emotionally complex stories. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of her latest book
RIDING THE WAVES and I stayed up all night reading it. I love books about the clever girl who gets the gorgeous guy and this is a classic in that genre!