Author name: Joanna Chambers

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Why do I read romance? #167

Maybe one day I’ll definitively answer this question. Today’s attempt ventures onto new ground. I’ve been listening a lot to Dexys’ 2012 album One Day I’m Going to Soar this week. I got this album shortly after its release and loved it. One of the things I loved about it was that it was a single theme/single story […]

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An unexpected pleasure

So I came back from my week away and there was a note that the postman had left a parcel with my neighbour. Inside was this: So I looked inside. There was a bookmark: I was none the wiser. I flicked around the pages, checked the flyleaf and back copy…  Nope. Then I finally turned to

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2015: the year of JFDI

  I meant to post about my resolution for 2015 before now. But, in keeping with said resolution, better late than never. I’ve decided that 2015 is going to be my JFDI year. Just Fucking Do It. There’s more than one strand to this. Part of it’s about writing – about reminding myself of how (miraculously

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2014 in review – the readery stuff

This post is more about the general shape of my reading in 2014 rather than being a top books of the year list – more general musings on what captured my interest this year with some specific mentions by way of example. 2014 was (again) very much a year of the contemporary for me. Most

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My 2014 in review: the writey stuff

2014 has been a pretty good writing and publishing year for me. I published two novels, two novellas and a (very short) short this year which is a pretty good output for me given my work and family commitments. The stories were: Enlightened, the final novel in my Enlightenment trilogy (my most ambitious writing project to

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Guess the Author Round 4

Josh has organised a cool game to celebrate the upcoming release of Comfort and Joy – four rounds of GUESS THE AUTHOR! You may be here because you’ve already played the other three rounds, or you may have come here first – if so, you’ll find the other rounds at Josh Lanyon’s, LB Gregg’s and Harper Fox’s places. This is

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