One thing I’m currently living by is that you just have to keep on keeping on. It’s not always easy, but you’ve just got to get your eyes down, bum up and keep working and moving forward.

Disappointment had clouded her face when he’d broken their kiss. She felt something for him. That look proved it. He could only hope once she knew who he really was and why he was in her home town, she’d be able to forgive his subterfuge.

So many Spring reads to choose from but here are my favourites, all five star reads: the Pursuit Of, One Night Wife, Lionheart, Neanderthal Seeks Human and The Laird's Christmas Kiss

I always make time to read. It’s my safe place, my fun place, and the way I refill my creative well. Here are five five-star romance reads I recommend. At the bottom of my post you'll find links to the other, very different, recommendations from The Writers Dozen.

There are some good hybrid publishers, but most of them are perilously close to the definition of a ‘vanity press’ where you are paying for the pleasure of seeing your name on a book without the publisher being worried about whether it will sell or not.

Not all publishers are created equal. There are the traditional publishers including the so-called ‘Big Five’, hybrid-model and digital first publishers and self-publishers, also known as indie-authors or indie-publishers.

The only thing more inconvenient than Camilla's marriage at gunpoint is falling in love with her unwilling groom...So begins the story of Camilla Worth and Adrian Hunter.

I really wanted to be a published novelist. I wanted it more than I feared failure and humiliation.

Traditionally, an author needed an agent to get a publisher. This has changed with the rise of digital-only or digital-first publishers and imprints. An imprint is a division of publishing house, for example, Escape is Harlequin Australia’s digital-only imprint whereas titles published under their Mira imprint appear in both paperback and ebook. Many publishers now accept submissions direct from authors.

The Writers Dozen share their favourite reads of 2018 so far.