Margaret Mayo Romance Author

I’m sorry I haven’t blogged recently. I’ve been off-sorts with a head cold and a cough that won’t go away. To top it all one of my eyes wouldn’t even open the other morning, it was clogged up with mucus of some sort. It’s not better yet but it’s improved.

I do want to wish you all A Happy Easter, though. Enjoy your egg hunts and whatever else you do at this special time of year.

I always remember when I was first trying to write, way back when, we had a speaker at the writer’s circle to which I belonged, and talking to her afterwards I told her that I had difficulty in interspersing my dialogue with actions and thoughts. So she suggested that I write the dialogue first like a play and then go back and put everything else in. And it worked. I don’t have that problem any longer, although I do still sometimes add a little more action after-wards when I’m re-reading.

Did anyone else ever suffer from that same problem?

And in case you’re wondering who the speaker was, it was Mary Wibberley. She wrote for HM&B in those days. Does anyone remember her? She also wrote a book on writing called To Writers With Love.

I thought you might like to see a photograph of my current hero who is seriously not behaving himself. He wants to go one way and I want him to go another. Life’s never fair, is it?

I have this particular photo pinned up on my cork board right in front of me as I work and every time I look at him I can’t help but forgive him. As some of you probably know, it’s Matt Boman who stars in the American TV series White Collar – which unfortunately we don’t have over here. At least I don’t think so..

I have my heroine pinned up right next to him – but I have no idea who she is in real life. All I know is that she’s one very attractive, very feisty blonde.

I had a computer free weekend as my daughter came to stay – with her three year old! Need I say more? It was Mothers Day here yesterday so we had a lovely meal and I have lots of beautiful flowers to brighten up the house. It actually snowed in with the rain which took everyone by surprise because we’ve been having some unseasonably lovely weather. Like today. The sun is shining, my washing’s blowing on the line, and I’m sitting here at my keyboard ready to start work.
I always read my last day’s work before I start so I’m looking forward to that. Sometimes I think, wow, did I really write that. Another time I’ll think, what a load of rubbish and cross most of it out.
Do you have days like that?

I’ve been looking for recipes to use up the cooking apples I stored last year and which are not keeping as well as I had hoped. I want something quick and easy (don’t we all?) so if anyone has any suggestions I’d be very grateful.

As a reward I’ll send a copy of one of my books to whoever sends the recipe I like best.