If you’ve just stumbled upon this blog, you could be forgiven for thinking I’m obsessed with Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I’m not. Certainly not in the “why-hasn’t-she-returned-my-calls-and-what-is-this-about-a-restraining-order” sort of way. I do like her, though. So when my husband suggested we swap reading material, I knew she was the one author who might have a chance… Continue reading Susan Elizabeth Phillips – agent of deception?
Author: Kat
Kat Latham writes sexy contemporary romance, including the London Legends rugby series. With degrees in English lit and human rights, she loves stories that reflect the depth, humor and emotion of real life. She's a California girl living in the Netherlands with her baby girl and British husband.
On paying for UPS workers to have a great Christmas
I sent my manuscript off to Romance Writers of America yesterday for the Golden Heart Award. Royal Mail can’t track anything once it leaves Britain, so I had to look for other options. It cost $88 to mail it via UPS from London to Houston. Ouch. Merry Christmas, UPS executives.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips – kind-hearted fairy godmother?
I wrote last week about how my husband made me a deal: I’d read one of the novels he’s studying for his PhD (Don Delillo’s White Noise) and he’d read one of my favorite romance novels (SEP’s Natural Born Charmer). He made it through 100 pages before begging me to let him stop. Heartless wife… Continue reading Susan Elizabeth Phillips – kind-hearted fairy godmother?
Save the contemporary
Good news comes in threes! (Well, deaths of famous people come in threes, so it stands to reason – sort of – that good news does, too). 1. I entered my manuscript in RWA’s Golden Heart competition today! Woo hoo for finishing a manuscript! 2. According to Publisher’s Weekly, people want to read funny contemporaries,… Continue reading Save the contemporary
My husband and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, part one
If you had to give a man one romance novel to show why you love the genre, which one would it be? My husband is a PhD candidate studying American literature. He hates romance novels. Or, at least, he’s convinced he would if he ever read one. The other day he came up with a… Continue reading My husband and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, part one