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‘As many beginner romance writers do, I decided category would be an easy way into the industry. Even though my heart has always been with long juicy historicals.’ Anna Campbell.
SHEY. ‘As many beginner romance writers do, I decided category would be an easy way into the industry. Even though my heart has always been with long juicy historicals.’ Thrilling words from a thrilling lady and author, Anna Campbell, our guest today. Anna, would you say that after a long journey to get into the industry, and a career there that has now spanned thirteen years, that your heart is where it wants to be?
ANNA. Hi Lady Shey! Hi Dudes! Thanks for having me to visit today. I love writing historical romance – I don’t think any genre sweeps you away into a larger-than-life world the way historical romance does. Having said that, I have a vague idea of writing a historical mystery series but I fear I’m never going to have the time when I’m so busy writing my Highlanders and my rakes and my smart-mouthed Regency ladies.
SHEY. Your first book, Claiming the Courtesan which has won numerous awards was ‘dark and sexy,’
and very different from a number of historicals out there at that time.
Ignoring the dudes please tell us what gave you the idea to go darker? Were there any true historical stories of dukes marrying their mistress that inspired you?
ANNA – When I wrote CTC, I had pretty much decided I was never going to be published. I’d written for most of my life without getting a contract – the publishing world was very different back in the early 2000s! So I just went where my heart took me – and that was to a very dark story about a tormented duke and the courtesan he loves. The fashion when I started Courtesan was very much romantic comedy, Julia Quinn and Amanda Quick and all those sparkling Regencies. But as I wasn’t writing for a market but to please myself, that didn’t much matter (so I thought!). Verity and Kylemore’s story came from my imagination but I had a marvellous moment after I’d written the first draft when I read Katy Hickman’s book Courtesans and came across the story of the courtesan Elizabeth Armitage and her aristocratic husband Charles James Fox. These two had a lot in common with my made-up characters. It felt like a sign from the universe that I was onto something.
SHEY –Both wonderful books for those who haven’t read them BTW. Claiming the Courtesan was the start of a rollercoaster ride where you released a number of books for many major publishers–again, all to tremendous acclaim–but for last few years you decided to go your own way, publishing your books yourself. What was your thinking behind that move? And how has it worked out for you?
ANNA -I love being an indie, although I’ll always be tremendously grateful for my career in traditional publishing. I learned so much and I picked up a large readership which stood me in good stead when I went out on my own. A few things pushed me down the independent route – I wanted to write stories in a variety of tones. While I’d started my career writing dark stories, at heart I’m actually quite a jolly soul and I wanted to write some romantic comedy. I also wanted more releases a year than a trad career allows.
SHEY– You’ve also gotten deeply into Scotland, especially the unspoiled island of Eigg.
Not that I noticed. Which of your ultra sexy heroes would you want to spend a day with there and what would you do ……. ?
And can you tell us why you find Eigg so bewitching?
ANNA — Ha, all of my heroes! Although perhaps not at the same time. That’s just too much like hard work! Just because he’s the most recent and also because I developed a major crush on him as I wrote the story, I’ll choose Brock Drummond, Earl of Bruard, who stars in The Highlander’s Forbidden Mistress, my latest release.
Brock is a wonderful mixture of heart and intellect and sexiness – so at least some of what I do with him on the Isle of Eigg will involve conversation! Really! I’ve included a picture of the view over to Rum from Laig Beach on Eigg.
It’s pretty obvious why I’m so in love with the place! I’ve always loved islands and this one has such a rich history and such glorious scenery. I also love that when I go there, I feel like the rest of the world is a million miles away (well, a couple of hours on a CalMac ferry, anyway!)
Shey–You know we were up for having our anniversary in Arisaig again, heading over to Eigg for a day to bag the Sgurr, before winding up in Glencoe. RIGHT NOW ACTUALLY. Oh well, the best laid plans of hamsters and women, but thank you for giving that wee flavour and here’s hoping for next year. Right now I gather they are asking tourists to stay away from Eigg before you dudes get any bright ideas here. Anna, you’ve also moved into Scotland as a setting for many of your books. Give us the low down, is it the men in kilts, or something else that has drawn you in that direction?
ANNA–Well, a man in a kilt is always welcome!
Not to mention that wonderful accent. Sigh. Actually I’ve been in love with Scotland
since my very first visit back in the mid-1980s. I’ve been back numerous times since and the love affair has only intensified. I think it’s the most beautiful country on earth and the history is full of soul-stirring stories. Not to mention the music. That goes straight to the heart. When I first visited, I wondered if there was something in the idea of the blood calling me home. I am, after all, a Campbell, even if one raised on the other side of the world.
SHEY —How do you do your research for your novels?
ANNA– These days because I know the period I’m working in so well, I mostly do book-specific stuff. For example, with The Highlander’s Lost Lady, a lot of the plot hinged on issues like the age of consent in Scotland in the 1820s so I had a wonderful dive into marital law in the Regency period.
SHEY —What would you say has changed most about the writing industry since you first started subbing your work?
ANNA — Ha, do you want a 10-page answer?
When I started writing, the only way to get published and find an audience was to get a contract with a traditional publisher, and books were available in print format only. Digital technology has created so many more ways for people to read and to publish. There’s a freedom now that there wasn’t back when I started writing as a teen.
Shey —Returning to that, you’ve written– in the hope of getting published– since 3rd Grade, getting to the stage where ‘under the bed was more crowded than the centre of Hong Kong at Chinese New Year,’ with manuscripts, finished, unfinished or rejected, you set yourself targets, goals, often doing mundane jobs, did you ever think of giving up?
ANNA–I did! When I was in my late 30s, I was working in a dead-end job and nothing was happening with my writing career. I decided that wanting to be published was like wanting to dance for the Bolshoi (also a girlish dream for the young Anna!). It was time to put aside these silly fantasies of being a writer and start trying to build a proper life for myself. I lasted about 18 months and I was absolutely miserable. So when I went back to writing, I decided I needed to be a bit smarter about what I was doing. So I joined Romance Writers of Australia, and I started to write something that had a bit of commercial appeal. It still took a couple of years, but the decisions I made after giving up started me on the road to publication.
SHEY — Would you say that keeping your eye on markets and looking for the way in, with work that is marketable played its part and what tips would you give aspiring writers out there? I’d mention the worthy master here but as Bobby Bub ses, he can’t actually write. He can’t spell neither.
ANNA–The weird thing is I ended up getting published with a book I didn’t think any publisher would ever touch with a barge pole. At the time, the idea of a heroine who sleeps with men for money seemed very out there. I’d also advise against chasing trends. These days, trends come and go faster than a speeding bullet. My tip for aspiring writers is to read a lot in what’s being published now and take note of popular tropes (not trends). Marriage of convenience is a trope; hockey playing heroes is a trend. Also if you start a book, fight through the sagging middle to finish it.
Partly because there’s nothing you can do with the start of a book, but also because finishing a book will teach you more about writing than a million writing courses.
SHEY —What’s next for Anna Campbell?
ANNA–Lockdown has done wonders for the appearance of new Anna Campbell books! There are three more this year to finish up the Lairds Most Likely series. The Highlander’s Rescued Maiden is out at the end of September and as those who have followed me for a while know, I always do a Christmas story. The Highlander’s Christmas Countess should be out end of October. I’m also contributing a story to a Christmas historical romance anthology, but details of that are under wraps right now.
Next year I’m very excited because I’m starting a new series based back in Regency London, stories full of glamour and passion. Stay tuned for the announcement of details, but if you enjoyed my Dashing Widows series, I think you’ll be very pleased with this new direction.
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Australian Anna Campbell has written 11 multi award-winning historical romances for Avon HarperCollins and Grand Central Publishing. As an independently published author, she’s released 25 bestselling stories, including seven in her latest series, The Lairds Most Likely. Anna has won numerous awards for her Regency-set stories, including RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice, the Booksellers Best, the Golden Quill (three times), the Heart of Excellence (twice), the Write Touch, the Aspen Gold (twice), and the Australian Romance Readers’ favorite historical romance (five times).
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Blurb for The Highlander’s Forbidden Mistress:
A week to be wicked…
Widowed Selina Martin faces another marriage founded on duty, not love. When notorious libertine Lord Bruard invites her to his isolated hunting lodge, he promises discretion – and seven days of hedonistic pleasure before she weds her boorish fiancé. All her life, Selina has done the right thing, but this no-strings-attached chance to discover the handsome rake’s sensual secrets is irresistible. She’ll surrender to her wicked fantasies, seize some brief happiness, then knuckle down to a loveless union. What could possibly go wrong?
In a lifetime of seduction, Brock Drummond, the dashing Earl of Bruard, has never wanted a woman the way he wants demure widow Selina Martin. When Selina agrees to become his temporary lover, he soon falls captive to an enchantment unlike any other. He sets out to slake his white hot desire until only ashes remain, but as each day of forbidden delight passes, the idea of saying goodbye to his ardent mistress becomes more and more unbearable.
When scandal explodes around them and threatens to destroy Selina, Brock is the only person she can turn to. After so short a time, can she trust a man whose name is a byword for depravity?
Will this sizzling liaison prove a mere affair to remember? Or will their week of passion spark a lifetime of happiness for the widow and her dissolute Scottish earl?
Excerpt from THE HIGHLANDER’S FORBIDDEN MISTRESS: THE LAIRDS MOST LIKELY BOOK 7
Derwent Hall, Essex, December 1823
Selina was too aware that it was late and that she was alone with a man whose reputation was bad enough to send respectable virgins shrieking for their mammas. Lord Bruard’s company was the closest thing to satanic temptation that she was ever likely to experience.
She swallowed to moisten a dry throat and set the book on the mantel. “I must go,” she said, and cursed the squeak in her voice.
“Must you?” Bruard didn’t sound as if he cared whether she stayed or went. He continued as if they were in the middle of a friendly conversation. “You shouldn’t let Canley-Smythe bully you, you know. If he bullies you now, before he gets his ring on your finger, he’ll turn into a domestic tyrant when you marry.”
She paused in the act of turning away toward the door. “This is none of your business, sir.”
Unfortunately, it was also a perfectly accurate assessment of her future. Selina was no fool, and she had few illusions about what life with Cecil was going to be. But what choice did she have?
With a leisurely grace that made Selina’s foolish heart skip around inside her tight chest, Bruard sat up. She thought she’d committed her whole self to marrying Cecil, but now it turned out that her heart hadn’t signed up to the arrangement. Her heart cried out that she was still young and at last she had the chance to flirt with an attractive man. It insisted that if she ran away now, she was a filthy coward.
“Oh, that’s true.” Again no shame. “But I’m telling you this out of pure altruism. Stand up for yourself now, or he’ll crush every ounce of spirit out of you.”
“Pure altruism?” She gave a snort of amusement that would have shocked Cecil. “It seems the world is completely wrong about you, Lord Bruard.”
The half-smile reappeared, deepening the creases around Bruard’s deep-set eyes. The breath jammed in her lungs. Dear God, no wonder the ladies went insane for him. He truly was extraordinarily attractive. He should have warning signs posted all over him.
Because he was right about her avoiding him, this was closer than she’d ever ventured to the wicked Lord Bruard. This was certainly the longest she’d spent talking to him.
And danger bristled in the air.
So remaining in this room made no sense. Yet remain Selina did.
His gaze fixed on her. “No, my lovely little ghost, the world isn’t wrong about me.”
The power of his attraction made her stomach cramp with nerves, as she remembered all those depraved fantasies that wore Lord Bruard’s intense dark face. Did he know she’d thought of him in the privacy of the night? She had a sick feeling that he must.
“G-ghost?” she stammered.
He shrugged. How could such a prosaic movement make her heart somersault? Except his shoulders were broad and hard, and she ached to run her hands along them and down those strong arms, displayed to advantage in the best of London tailoring.
He wore black. But then didn’t the devil always come in black?
“That’s how I think of you. With your neat little gray frocks, and the way you watch everything you say, and never miss anything that goes on around you.”
This time, genuine fear spurred the unsteady beat of the heart. She hadn’t thought she’d be of the slightest interest to such a famous libertine. It turned out she was wrong. Just as she’d watched him, he’d watched her.
She gulped for air to clear a swimming head and raised a shaking hand to her bosom, before she realized how revealing the gesture was. “You shouldn’t think of me at all.”
His expression grew more intent, and she faltered back a step. She should flee, pride or no pride, but it was as if her feet were tacked to the parquetry floor.
“Nor should you think of me, when you’re marrying that ponderous oaf in a fortnight, and you’re obviously a woman who guards her chastity the way a miser guards his gold.”
Heat blazed in her cheeks, and she avoided his eyes. How could he make her virtue sound like the worst of sins? “I don’t think of you. I…”
Oh, what was the use? Coyness suddenly seemed too shabby to countenance. As he uncoiled and rose to his feet, she made a helpless gesture. “I don’t want to think of you,” she mumbled.
This is a GREAT interview, and I love the fun way it’s presented (with all the images and asides).
Oh that’s the dudes. Murder that way. Was ;lucky to get a word in actually. I don’t usually. Anna is a great subject. She’s been out there through all the changes to publishing and was never less than determined to get out there either. But thank you, Dave.
A wonderful interview, Shehanne.
Dave, thanks so much for swinging by! Didn’t Shey ask some great questions? I’m glad you got to them in between all the Dudes and their nonsense!
Dr Anna,
Us hiv nonsinse? Nivir.
The sensible duds
I do apologise for them Anna. I am reckoning gags the next post.
You’re welcome, Anna, and congratulations on the stellar novel-writing career you fought so hard for!
Thanks so much, Dave!
I agree Dave! Shehanne’s interviews are always deliciously tantalizing!!!
Clanmother, this was such fun!
My lovely Clansister, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anna is a wonderful subject. Like that she stuck with her dreams through thick and thin; having been with big publishers, she struck out on her own. Publishing has changed so rapidly and she’s seen so much of that. In fact she trail blazed in terms of her first book AND then there’s her love of Scotland.Generally she’s over in Eigg every year for ages, writing away, exploring, enjoying the wonderful scenery. So it’s been great to have here here. And it’s wonderful to see you x Thank you xxx
I had to look up where the Island of Eigg was located. A perfect location for writing – full of epic beauty!
Clanmother, I was supposed to have three weeks there writing this year. You’re right about the epic beauty!
I have a feeling that I passed by your Island when we visited this area a few times in the past. We were Skye a couple of times, were in Oban and traveled on the ferries to different island and also toured the Outer Hebrides. Every time I travel to Scotland I feel like I’m coming home. I am delighted that Shehanne introduced us. A great interview!
It’s very distinctive actually. Anna has fair sold me on getting over to it and last year we were staying where a ferry goes from at Arisaig for a night. I had it all planned out for this year taking 2 nights there and going over to do the Sgurr, the timing and everything but alas. Anna… you will have to come fro long er next year.
Oh, wouldn’t it be lovely if we could coordinate a visit!
It would be actually.
Just as a go off for a lockdown holiday I read, early within the interview, that Anna has, ‘…won numerous awards…’ for writing, ‘…dark and sexy.’ Hell’s bells how does a red-blooded chap cope? That said, my best wishes to you…both Ms S and Anna. Super blog. Best regards, The Old Fool – now off for yet another cold shower.
Winter in Australia, Mike. Nobody’s having cold showers here!
OOH… Now, there’s an offer Mike! Anna— Mike and his wife Shirl, usually are in France right now and they couldn’t get so Shirl’s done up their garden like a French bistro. It is amazing. They have the red wine AND she’s even made the French bread. So that is their lockdown hol this year and it sounds brill. (Now, if only you could re-create Eigg….)
I was in the artic circle some decades gone. Even there, as my ice laden chumess made mention of ‘dark and sexy’ I had to break the ice and jump in. I blame it upon you gals…you’re all far too lovely.
You flatterer you. But greatly appreciated. And the arctic circle/ you dark horse you.
Now then Mike, you are anything but an old fool. Obviously we wanted to give you a good send off to your lockdown hol. I am sure you can see that. Hope you enjoy your days in the sun with Shirl,
Oh, I love the sound of the French bistro. How clever!
Mike had a pic on his blog, looked very nice.
Great interview, dear Shey.
Lovely to see you Dolly. Anna is a class act so it was great to have her here. Thank you so much for coming by. Always nice to see you x
My pleasure, darling! I hope you are well and keeping safe in your neck of the woods.
I am keeping sassy, Dolly. That is what I am keeping. Hope you are too xxx
Thanks for swinging by, Dolly. I loved answering the questions Shey gave me.
My pleasure, Anna.
I like this so much. So cool. I can almost feel me becoming romantic. That doesn’t happen often. x
Aw Gary, well there you go. It is great having Anna here. Above all else in this biz she is a survivor, with a lot of experience and advice to share.
Well, my work is done, Gary! Shehanne, really enjoying my visit. Thanks for having me as your guest.
You are MORE than welcome. Brilliant having you xxxxxxxxxx
Wonderful interview. I, as a person who can’t come up with much of a plot, let alone interesting characters or dialog that is anything but mundane, am amazed how writers come up with all the interesting plots and characters and dialogs. Thanks for the insights.
Timothy, I was having a chat with a neighbour yesterday about the fact that I’m so completely hopeless with anything in the house in terms of repairs. Horses for courses! Thanks for swinging by. I’m glad you enjoyed the interview.
That’s good you can write novels. I’m pretty good at repairs. But getting around to repairing things is another thing altogether.
AND you are the most amazing photographer and maker of guitars Mr. Price. Anna , you should see them.
Well, yeah, getting around to writing a novel takes a bit of effort too so I hear you.
Plot?? As I aye say to folks… what’s that? Oh that thing you are meant to set out with and you hope will come to you as you go along. Wonderful to see you Timothy. Now off to see today’s photo fest .
Super interview, Shey. Anna, congratulations on your many successes and on escaping the dudes’ clutches in the nick of time.
PS Bobby Bub, when you say you’re ‘taken”, you better not be thinking of Olga! xxx
Katy, mah honey, how could yah them there think Ah wis thinkin’ of anyone but them there you? Ah is a changed hamstah these days.
Love Bobby B
Be still, my heart 💖
That Olga is a them there trashy wench. Remember, we’ll always have Paris…
Bobby B
Great to see you Kate. I reckoned Anna would share as much as she did, so it is great to have her here. And the dues…well.. they were reined in
Kate, lovely to see you! Thank you for swinging by. Snickering at the dudes being reined in. I think you’d need teeny-tiny bridles!
I am thinking lockdown should just apply to them wholesale, apart from Bobby Bub cos he loves Kate x
A fantastic interview and great advice too. Dudes, your day will come, when the drum rolls echo through the Glens announcing the greatest hamster writer of all time. ❤
Wall to wall, people lying there having expired through holding their breaths……….xx
Adele Marie, thanks so much for checking it out. Glad you found it interesting!
Great interview, Shey and Anna! Thank you!! I’m feeling very inspired by Anna’s words as well as to finish my own novel and get it out there. I’ve always written what interests me rather than chase trends, but the payoffs aren’t always immediate so I find myself lagging from time to time. Your insight into indie publishing give me renewed hope. Question for Anna — do you think that joining the Romance Writers of Australia was a turning point for you? I don’t actually belong to any such groups, but I’m wondering if it’s because I’ve not yet taken my desire to write novels seriously enough yet. Perhaps by identifying with a group, I might take things to the next level. Thanks again for the great interview and good luck with (both of) your work!
Pam, great to see you. I am so glad you enjoyed this because I feel that Anna has been round the park in terms of when she came into this business and it is no lie for me to say that she trail blazed for those of us who did not want to write frilly. Claiming the Courtesan was a breath of fresh air in terms of its subject and actual writing. At that point, thinking who is this woman, I started to follow her blog and again it is no lie to say, I thought she was inspirational in terms of how long she took to make that breakthrough and how like many of us, she thought , pack it in but couldn’t. Scroll on some years and she was striking out on her own, deciding that fitted her better than the publishing world she’d broken into. As with the wonderful Kate Furnivall, I never thought I’d end up speaking to her, anything, let alone having her here. Even when we were having a joke on twitter re the dudes and her with a wonderful woman Alison, we both know and I’ve met, it would be great to interview her but she might say no. So I am glad you are inspired xxxx
I love when inspiration falls into my lap! 💃💃💃
Shey, as if I’d say no!!! And thank you for that wonderful rap!
Aw.. Anna the dudes never twisted my arm or tied me up with their whiskers. I meant it.
Pam, I am sure you hardly need it xs
Pam, thanks for swinging by. I’m glad you found the interview useful. Good luck with your projects! I do think joining RWA was a turning point for me – things really started happening after that. I found the contests really useful – it’s good to get feedback from someone who isn’t your mother and if you can swing a few places or wins, they look great on a query letter. When I started querying agents, I always got past step one, I think because I could prove that my work had stood out from the crowd with the list of contest success. You’ll also meet a lot of people in the same game as you are – that’s one of the joys of this industry, the friends you make along the way. Most writing organisations hold conferences too which is a great way to network and meet editors and agents. I could go on but basically, yes, I’d definitely recommend joining.
Good advice, Anna, thank you. It’s always a struggle to find the time for all those things, but it sounds like it’s worth it. Good luck to you as well!😍🙌
Wonderful interview, Shey. Anna, Thank you or your honest and direct answers, which are also very encouraging.
Shey, Anna sounds like a wonderful story teller. I’m thrilled she encouraged you to keep writing, as you are my historic romance queen. Once I get the new Art Gown done (it’s about 80%), I’m onto “His Judas Bride” , Mike Steeden’s new book and a novelette.
Then, hopefully your new book will be done. If it’s done sooner, I’ll switch the order.
HAMSTIRS! Daid Anna git oot withoot bites und nibbles adoorning her? Shey shud send ya all ta a schule fer hamstir mannirs!!!!
I am also reading Mike’s new baby. IZ fir these dids..or did they means dudes who did nit bit Anna. Anna did indeed inspire me to keep writing because there is nothing worse than giving up writing actually, even when you think no-one will ever read this. Not even the dudes, New book is at 70 thou words but there’s bits I need to get right between her and him and the secrets she keeps and why, that are actually nothing to do with him. So there’s bits I am going back over before getting to the later stage.. the last 20 thou. BUT there’s a gown. It’s not fancy but she’s at that stage where she needs even a non fancy gown to remember who she is as a person that is. Don’t worry about getting onto anything. Just always good to see you and to know you are working on a new gown. I expect piccies xxxxx
Cool! & Cool it dudes!
Okay… I’ll send a sneak peek!! xxo
Just had a peruse of Anna’s website. AMAZING!!!
Hamstirs, I iz hamstir groupeee now. Big mushy kizzez.
COOL! Which one are you sleeping with, first? 😉🙃
I like the one in the cape… okay he wanted to keel you, but he’s really cute!
Yeah, I thought keel comment was a bit much! I’m too young to die!
Anna, of course they mean it as a mark of affection…a sort of badge of honor amongst guests LoL. I should give my guests a I survived the dudes badge. Seriously that one is Vlad, one reader calls him Count Pickula but whatever he is called, he has not noticed he is in fact a hedgehog. Generally Vlad threatens to kill everyone,
Sheesh, and I thought I was speshal!
You are very special. You had the Fairy Godmother rooting for you. xx
Oh, her site is good all right. xxx Just got back on here Virgin media update or maintenance or whatever, knocked out the PC internet.
Uch! Lots of that going around. I don’t know about you, but I pay a lot of hamsters for service that is spotty!
Oh me too. xxxxxxxxx PS. LOVED THE SNEAKY OF THE GOWN .
Resa, lovely to meet you and thanks for checking out the website! That’s lovely!!! I’m also glad you enjoyed the interview. I think Shey asked such fabulous questions. Sounds like the TBR pile is heaving. Did you check out my latest set of recommendations in my favourite things? Some really great memoirs there. I love memoirs.
Glad to introduce you girls actually, Resa designs and makes the most amazing gowns for charity …this is in her spare time.
Great conversation between two fantastic authors! A bit disappointing for the Dudes though – no historic romance based on their life, again. Perhaps it is because their life lacks darkness… You might want to see to it, Shehanne 🙂
I think putting the lights out would save a lot of time, not to mention their whining, moaning…….But then equally hamster romance could be the next thing. Good to see you. Missed you xxx
Thank you. Getting there xxx
Shey, you could put a towel over their cage. That would bring some darkness! Thanks for swinging by, Inese. So glad you enjoyed our chat.
Inese, glad to hear it. Hoping for more of your wonderful walks you know.
Hilarious and informative. I enjoyed learning about Anna and her books, which I will be checking out. But I was hysterical with some of those clever dude interruptions. Lmaooooooooo hugs xox (oh, sorry I can’t ‘like’, but I can share) my laptop died and I’m hoping the old clunker I’m on lasts until the new one is delivered. Oye! ❤
Please don’t worry Debby. Sometimes the like button won’t load on your blog for me. . Ahd huge problems all morning after Virgin media did some update or crashed and while everything else was back up and running I couldn’t get online on my PC. It kept coming up I had right to that service address. And I thought excuse me but I do, or since I have no right then you can cancel the subscription. .
Oye! Madness all around I tell ya! We shall overcome, we are the WW xxxxxx 😉 xx
Elbow power sistah, elbow power.
DG, thanks for swinging by. At least the laptop worked so you could read the banter!
I always say, thank goodness for tender mercies. Lol 🙂
Wonderful interview Shey snd Anna. Your book sounds wonderful Anna and I’m so glad Shey has let me in on it. Such an enticing cover , awesome! Great job you two. ❤️
Aw, firstly, wonderful to see you, secondly thrilled you like this so much. Anna is a real inspiration AND a lover of Scotland, not to mention being a damn good writer of historical rom. So thirdly it is nice to introduce you to her and her work.
I love hystorical romance novels, and you are such an amazing author, Anna’s book is very intriguing , thank you again Shey!
You are too kind my friend, You always write the most amazing things yourself. So now I thank you. xxxxx
House of Heart, so glad you enjoyed the interview. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, brilliant questions! Glad you like the look of the books too!
Great interview, Dudes, Shey and Anna, full of wit and wisdom. What an inspirational story yours is, Anna. Thanks for sharing it, and good luck with The Highlander’s Forbidden Mistress, it’s certainly got some tension going on.
She’s very inspirational Cath, from being trail-blazing to riding out all the changes in publishing. That is why I am thrilled she agreed to be interviewed. Great to see you x
Cath, so glad you enjoyed the interview. Thank you. And thanks for the good luck. This one’s had a really great reception which is always lovely for the writer involved!
👍😊 xx
wonderful interview, and I do so love men in kilts unlike one of the dudes. I so admire anyone who can write a historical romance. More to add to my list of reading! Thank you for the intro to Anna Campbell. And I so miss Scotland!!
Aw Cybele, I know you do. Anna is big on Scotland so of course I had to get a question in. Thrilled to introduce you ladies. I’ve been a fan of Anna—and not just her work but ability to persevere and adapt–for a long time. Since her first book in fact so it is wonderful to have her here. xxxx
Cybele, you and me both are missing Scotland! Thanks for checking out the interview and I hope you enjoy checking out the books.
Thanks a lot for visiting my posts regularly , thank you 🙂
John, you are more than welcome. Some days I get a bit behind when my family springs things on me! Or if we have plans. But it is a great pleasure to see such talent out there, see recipes, places, read beautiful words, fascinating articles. Oh yeah. The world is an amazing place.
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Great interview…! Keep up great work! Have a great day!!!
You too, my friend. Nice poem today.
Thanks many many for reading Shey..much obliged Tc
Absolute pleasure xxx Loved it.
Thanks, Ravindra! Have a wonderful weekend!
Most welcome Anna ! Loved the interview and your amazing writings..Keep up great work! Cheers!!!
amazing work
She’s amazing. x