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New Release Teaser: A Wolf Of His Own
I mentioned in my last post that I’ve been working on a sequel to my San Destino story, Pillion for a Police Officer. I can now announce that my new story, A Wolf of His Own, is set for release 15 November 2025. Set in the same magical town of San Destino, California, this story…
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Book on Sale!
This is a quick post to tell you my anthology collaborators and I are offering a fabulous special on the paranormal romance anthology, Winds of Change: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Collection–we have a BookBub Deal for Australia, Canada and the UK! And we’ve also reduced the price in the US because we don’t want American…
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End of year round up 2022
This year has felt very long. I don’t know about anyone else, but it’s felt like 2022 has been going for a while. In comparison to 2020, it’s been pretty good but there have been plenty of challenges to work through. I changed jobs, or more accurately I changed employers for my day job; the…
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What’s in a name?
Fleur de lysFleur DelacourFloriadeFlorida French. Noun. Popular in the Netherlandsmisheard as Laura or Clairemy name evokes many moodssaccharine, feminine, delicate Brings to mindold wallpaper, couchesvintage polyester dressesplastic plant arrangements I like my name, especially the doublewith Eloise between them for contrast.Despite disdain towards my fatherI keep his name; it suits me Grown from the dirt…
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The end is near*
*or nearer than before. Next Monday will be my birthday. The second to be celebrated in significant restrictions as a result of COVID-19. Back at the start of all of this, in March of 2020, people said it would take two years to get through and out the otherside. We’re already well into a year…
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Anniversary Gift – New Release
Time in the last year or two has become meaningless in a lot of ways. 2020 started with being hit by a car (I refuse to call it an accident), and then we all went into the long lockdown. Things were looking up in early 2021 but we’re back in long lockdown again, perhaps we’ll…
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The Painter
‘I have done five layers of background I want to make it twenty,’ she says. ‘What’s the background of?’ I ask. ‘Just colours, like everything I do.’ ‘I spent hours on this one making the background. I was really pleased with it – a rich matte black but then I got drunk when I did…
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Romance Guest Blog
Big things are happening behind the scenes here at Fleur Blum HQ – especially with regard to the show. But, I managed to find some time to write a guest blog for the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild. Find it here and tell them I sent you.
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Continuous Improvement
The day job that I have at the moment is working in Quality. That means that I spend all day reviewing, rewording and proof reading policies, and doing what’s referred to as continuous improvement. It’s my first job in Quality and I don’t have a strong background in it, but I think continuous improvement comes from…
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Blasphememes*
Originally posted on Dances with Cucumbers: *deface religious art with a visual pun, it’s a Blasphememe! We’ve decided that the ‘art’ we’re creating by mashing art works and puns together should be called Blasphememes. Here are some more. We start with Jacqui’s “I came to Berry Caesar, not to praise him”. Then we have Fleur’s…
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