Author: Joanne Hill

Indie author of sweet romance and romantic comedy. www.joannehill.com

HAPPY 2014

Happy 2014… in which I give thanks I made it to another year, and wasn’t run over by a bus or anything. Which given my propensity to cross roads at inappropriate moments, and the fact that last year I did actually have a bit of an incident crossing a very busy road, is truly rather…

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Must hate humans

I was thinking the other day how if our cat Nook was to put an ad in the personals for a fellow feline, it would say “Must hate humans.” It all stems from Easter this year when we went away for the long weekend, leaving a friend to pop around and top up the food…

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How I screwed up by not having an epilogue

I’ve been reading a few books where I have been a tad annoyed at epilogues which are often a bit of a waste of space – a nice way to fit an extra thousand words into a novel and nothing more, really.So when I was editing Falling for Jack, I decided I wouldn’t do an…

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So I Thought I Could Write…

While a few of my indie author colleagues are quite over the idea of pursuing traditional publishing for their novels, the attraction of it, for me, hasn’t gone away. It still lingers, in spite of three novels and one short story collection now indie-published. After the RWNZ Conference in Wellington back in August, I was…

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Bridesmaids

At the recent RWNZ conference, I was interested in a list of movies that Harlequin editor Sheila Hodgson suggested as good to watch if you’re considering writing for the new KISS line – a short, contemporary line out of the UK. One of the movies she mentioned was Bridesmaids which I’d heard of, but had…

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HOW I SPENT MOTHER’S DAY

Mother’s Day has been and gone, and we are a low key kind of family so it was a low key kind of day. I have tendencies towards frugalism by nature (ie I am cheap, except for coloring my hair because that is one thing I truly believe you need a professional for, and one…

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I wallow in a really lovely review

Normally I wallow in the misery of rejection but that’s another story…. They say that pride goes before a fall but I’m not being proud here, I’m just being totally chuffed at a lovely review on Amazon. The reality of being an author is that the crap reviews will come, but I’m just wallowing in…

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