Brand New Book! Coming Home is finally here :-)

I am so ridiculously excited today! It is launch day for Coming Home!

Coming Home is a short story, and it is part of the Castle Cluny Romance Series.

Anna is a headstrong and bubbly girl, determined to prove to the world that she is good enough and that she can take care of herself. She finds herself stuck on the other side of the world with no money and no friends.

Jim is her childhood sweetheart and a solid and stable guy who arrives unexpectedly to save her!

Tom is the local stud. He is sexy and cheeky and just a little bit dangerous.

Who will she choose?

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And today's 3 choices are.....

Please let me know your thoughts, and which one you think should make it into the final 3!!!

I need your help and brilliant eyes!

Okay everyone - I need your opinions!

I have some fantastic 'possible' covers for the re-launch of An Aristocratic Awakening.

I would love your feedback to help me choose which one of 8 to go for! So today, we start with these three. Please can you give me reasons why you lik bits, of you would put different bits in, or if there are bits you would remove!

Thanks you help is much appreciated! There will be a further 3 tomorrow, and then 2 on Monday to critique for me - then I will pick the top three, and you will have a week to post your favourite ;-)

Goals? Pah, who needs goals ....

It has been a really exciting few weeks for me. I have attended a couple of training sessions for the day job, and they have proved to be great fodder for the novels I'm working on- and even gave me some pretty incredible material for the already published Date with Destiny, which is making me consider a re-write to add all the amazing new stuff that is springing to mind!

This is the joy for me of self-publishing. It means that I have absolute control. If I find a new scene or number of them I can easily add them,and make my book better. Once a book is completed with a publisher that's it, nothing mroe to be done.

This dilemma made me think about the tings we shut of in life as 'finished' because someone else has sanctioned them so. I think it is why many people can feel a little flat when they achieve a long cherished goal - they simply don't feel it really is complete, someone else is telling them that it is so.

In business we are often told to set goals and targets, because the achievement of these makes you feel good,and begins the process of momentum. Personally I'm not entirely sure about this. I find I work much better without definite goals to achieve - because once I achieve goals I tend to take my foot of the pedal, and start letting things slip! Writing is the same for me. I recently tried to set myself the goal of writing a chapter a week, and an alternative of this was to write for an hour a day. I never managed to achieve these goals - yet when I took the pressure off of having to place a tick in a box at the end of the day/week I have managed to write some really great scenes (I hope you will love them too when I get these books finished and published for you!)

In my business I find it hard to set goals, because my goal is to help anyone who wants my help to have a better life. That excites me and gets me going - the idea of aiming for 1,000 twitter followers, or facebook likers, or 10 blog comments a week or whatever is tough for me to get excited about. It isn't as tangible as seeing a person blossom in front of me. In the same way as a writer, all you can do is hope that people will like what you are publishing, you rarely see the expression of joy, or the tears of compassion as they are actually reading that book.

My goal is to make people happier, healthier, to get them enjoying every aspect of life. It isn't to earn £100,000 a year (though I wouldn't say no to that!!), or to have certain number of clients on my books, or to know that 1,000 copies of my books have been sold. I live for the connection I have with people, with you my lovely readers.

So, let me know about you, I want to know what you want, what you dream of, what you hope to be.
Get in touch!
love always
Rosie xxx

Bob is a Furryhead!

It's been a pretty quiet week, just typing up some bits and pieces of scenes from my notebooks to see if anything was worth using. Not sure where these little poems would fit, and I don't think they are worth spending much time on revamping or re-crafting, so thought I would post them here for you all. Hope you enjoy!

The Green Chair – Alzheimers comes to stay

Clunk, splutter, giggle.

A mass of household goods,

a chest, a table, some cutlery

sliding on every bend.

Scrape, gasp, wriggle.

The pigtails bounce with glee,

a whole new world of discovery

contained in a blue work van.

 Murmur, shout, backfire.

Mum tells us to sit and behave,

the huge chair holds safe

as we all go along for the ride.

Screech, crunch, retire.

We make it safely home,

the blue van now stands empty,

Grandma now reigns over our home.

Self-Help!

An evening to reflect

A day that started bright

An afternoon of contentment

And an evening to relax.

 What will happen down

the line, who knows, but

giving our all will make

it surely like to succeed?

 Nose to the grind, pedal

to the metal, pull those

socks up, and show fine

fettle. Do what you do

The rest will follow, and

all your results will be

for whatever input has been.

Find your way to work

 And be, love and live,

the rest will follow your

lead to the joy and

greatness you have found.

 Bob is a Furryhead

Bob is a furry head. He

squeaks and tweaks.

Curly pawed he gambols

and twitches. Paws on

a sixpence, big-eyed

and playful. Bob is a

furry head. He growls and

he hisses, bites like they’re

kisses. Play lace, or chase

mouse. Bob is in charge

of our house.

have a great weekend....

I am a busy therapist in mh day job, and it never ceases to amaze me that people are often unaware of the importance of the words that they use. You know, those words that we constantly allow to run around our heads and pop out of our mouths before we even think about it. As a writer it is essential to make sure our words and sentences convey exactly what we mean. We write and rewrite sentences and phrases, consult dictionaries and thesauruses (thesauri?) to be certain we have conveyed our exact meaning to our readers.


Yet in our actual day to day lives we don't pay this level of attention to the words we use or think. With this in mind is it any wonder that others misconstrue what we say, and so often we manage to confuse our own unconscious minds too?


Obviously I'm not advocating the level of precision given by a master wordsmith to his magnum opus, but I think we could all benefit from choosing our words and constructing the beliefs and values we hold (which are really just sentences and phrases we have chosen to believe after all) with a bit more awareness of their actual meaning, and making informed decisions as to whether they really are serving us well or not.

Why is it hard to find the time....?

I've had a really hectic time of things with my day job recently, and this has got me thinking just how easy it is to allow ourselves to stop doing the things we really love. You know, those ones we look as a bit of time just for us, when we relax and unwind, and I have realised that my writing seems to come under this category for me. Now, my writing is actually a valuable part of my income, and I spend as much time working on building a network of fans for it as I do for my work as a therapist - yet I still see the actual writing part as my hobby.

I wanted to try and work out why this was the case for me, and probably for many writers out there - who are making money from their writing yet still prioritise other aspects of their lives as having more importance. I started by looking at what I get from writing, what I need to do to write successfully, and when I have been most successful at doing so and getting a finished article/book/blog post (or whatever I want to get written).

Firstly I realised that I get utterly immersed when I write. I am not someone who can sit down and just write for an hour or so, and feel that I have managed to get something created that has any value. I like to utterly lose myself in the characters lives, and just let them write their own stories - I simply can't do this if I am snatching a few 100 words here or there.So, for me writing is very time-consuming. I need to know that I have two or 3 days straight (often working through the night) to just get the story out there, get it onto the page and then I can use the odd hour here or there to edit it, and fine tune it over a number of months, but the actual initial push needs dedicated time with no distractions.

I get a huge amount of release from writing, it is a cathartic process for me. I often write about characters that have similar problems or hangs ups to me, or have had similar upbringings, or things happen in their lives. This can obviously mean that often it can be quite difficult for me emotionally, as I am working through my stuff alongside my characters working it out too. I also get a huge sense of pride and achievement when I complete a story.  The other thing I get is a lot of love. It sounds crazy but many of my characters are like family to me, and by giving them my undivided attention I feel that they give me the privilege of seeing everything about their lives, and they give me a great story line.

I realised that my most productive patch to date was one in which I had very few clients in the day job, was working through a lot of things to do with where and what I wanted my life to be, and how I was going to achieve it. Recently however my life has been very highly focussed on building my business, and helping others - there simply hasn't been the time for me, or my characters. So, the lesson I have learned is that I either need to change the way I write (which I don't want to do) or I need to find the time to write. That said I am going for the latter. I am going to try and book myself a two or 3 day holiday from my business every month so I can work on my writing.

So, what is holding you back, and how can you make a change so you continue to get pleasure from your hobbies that make you money, whilst maintaining a normal job/life/family etc?