I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just made my second sale to Harlequin SuperRomance. At this stage I have no details on when it will be available, what it will be called, or anything else really, I’m just soaking up the celebration and joy. (Not to mention the sheer relief of not being a ‘one-hit wonder’!) More news to come as soon as it is to hand.

I was absolutely honoured to win the Emerald Award for best unpublished manuscript at the recent RWA (Aust) conference in Melbourne. The contest is one of the few ‘full manuscript’ contests out there and it is judged by readers, not other authors. Basically you submit your whole book for review and a shortlist of 15 are chosen. Those 15 are then re-submitted and re-judged and three finalists chosen. Those finalists are sent to a final judge for review. This year, the final judge was Wanda Ottewell at Harlequin SuperRomance. And my entry was . . . Cassie’s Grand Plan! Just goes to show how important those contests can really be – I owe my ‘big break’ to the Emerald!

The title of my first Harlequin SuperRomance is ‘Cassie’s Grand Plan’. The title was the result of some brainstorming between myself, my lovely critique partner Louise, and my editor at Harlequin. I like it, because it describes my heroine’s approach to life – not to mention the fact that she actually does have a ‘grand plan’! But Cassie soon learns that not everything in life goes to plan… At this stage Cassie’s Grand Plan is due on your bookshelves in March 2012.