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The Prince and the Nun
a nun in love
a nun in love
Why I write…
Art for art’s sake? Maybe, but you won’t find me writing just for the fun of writing. For something I have created to come alive, it has to be shared. So I create books that will bring me close to my readers, and let them share in the fun. I always have my reader in the back of my mind when I write but don’t write for her. Instead I just hope that he or she will go along with the pictures and people I am putting down on paper.
So what do I write? I enjoy good stories. My mother started me off on Treasure Island. Odysseus and Bilbo Baggins were in the kids section of our public library. I had read Lord of the Rings before I was ten. At college (after 2 abortive attempts) I finally understood Catch 22 – still THE novel of the 20th century for me.
All of them good tales well told, all of them with a beginning, a middle and an end – usually a happy end. I love stories and story telling. Of course, I do my best to follow the masters.
I write about my great passions. Firstly romance. I’m an incurable romantic. No surprise about that, it’s the way we’re programmed. And yes, I even let my men be romantic too. Then there is sex - I'm a great thinker about sex. Finally, I love places. Real, interesting and exotic places.
I have been lucky enough to follow my husband to different countries with the oil industry – 15 in all. As I was living there and not just rubber-necking, I had to fit in. Learn a bit of the language and the history, understand the local ways of getting things done. Eat the food and enjoy society, and I like to share all that.
And I want reality. I want you to believe it happened, or could have happened, in just the way I set down. So – no super heroes (or super studs). Or nymphomaniacs, come to that. If any of them exist, I’ve never met one.
So my idea of a good novel? First and absolutely necessary, it must be a good story. An old fashioned tale. It needs some romance with a happy ending. Action is a prerequisite – no kitchen sink dramas for me – but there is a distinct lack of corpses in my stories. Guns are necessary sometimes, especially if you are writing a story set in wartime, but they stay in the background. Lots of interesting things can happen without anyone getting killed, and in real life death is not much fun at all.
And sex, of course. That wonderful gift Providence has given us, our chance to touch the divine. It is a great subject for art, and one we can all share. Hollywood might not be ready to trade its loaded guns for real sex, but I am. It’s so much more fun...
Art for art’s sake? Maybe, but you won’t find me writing just for the fun of writing. For something I have created to come alive, it has to be shared. So I create books that will bring me close to my readers, and let them share in the fun. I always have my reader in the back of my mind when I write but don’t write for her. Instead I just hope that he or she will go along with the pictures and people I am putting down on paper.
So what do I write? I enjoy good stories. My mother started me off on Treasure Island. Odysseus and Bilbo Baggins were in the kids section of our public library. I had read Lord of the Rings before I was ten. At college (after 2 abortive attempts) I finally understood Catch 22 – still THE novel of the 20th century for me.
All of them good tales well told, all of them with a beginning, a middle and an end – usually a happy end. I love stories and story telling. Of course, I do my best to follow the masters.
I write about my great passions. Firstly romance. I’m an incurable romantic. No surprise about that, it’s the way we’re programmed. And yes, I even let my men be romantic too. Then there is sex - I'm a great thinker about sex. Finally, I love places. Real, interesting and exotic places.
I have been lucky enough to follow my husband to different countries with the oil industry – 15 in all. As I was living there and not just rubber-necking, I had to fit in. Learn a bit of the language and the history, understand the local ways of getting things done. Eat the food and enjoy society, and I like to share all that.
And I want reality. I want you to believe it happened, or could have happened, in just the way I set down. So – no super heroes (or super studs). Or nymphomaniacs, come to that. If any of them exist, I’ve never met one.
So my idea of a good novel? First and absolutely necessary, it must be a good story. An old fashioned tale. It needs some romance with a happy ending. Action is a prerequisite – no kitchen sink dramas for me – but there is a distinct lack of corpses in my stories. Guns are necessary sometimes, especially if you are writing a story set in wartime, but they stay in the background. Lots of interesting things can happen without anyone getting killed, and in real life death is not much fun at all.
And sex, of course. That wonderful gift Providence has given us, our chance to touch the divine. It is a great subject for art, and one we can all share. Hollywood might not be ready to trade its loaded guns for real sex, but I am. It’s so much more fun...
Gossip
Meet Annabel Gold...
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With the current turmoil affecting Libya, my novel The Accidental Spy is suddenly much more topical. I am following the news closely, because for a long time I lived in Libya. That is a strange mixture of a country. Physically, it can be amazingly beautiful, especially when you get out into the desert. Mankind has been tramping along the Mediterranean coast for many millenia, and they have left traces of their history everywhere. Absolutely the best Roman ruins are found there.
The reason I don't recommend it for a relaxing holiday is the Government. Its unique blend of chaos and oppression is hard to describe and, believe me, Ludlumesque spy thrillers don't come close. It made such an impression on me that I just had to use it as a background, although it took me a decade away to get it into perspective. As I watch the current chaos, and all the crazy people with guns, it brings back uncomfortable memories.
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Hi Jacqueline ,
No wonder your books are doing well, I do love your cheeky banter! You are one of a kind. Congratulations!
Xx Francesca
PS: Love the American cover for Where Gold Lies. I want legs like that…
Check out Francesca's Mucho Caliente here. It's worth it.
Meet Annabel Gold...
****
With the current turmoil affecting Libya, my novel The Accidental Spy is suddenly much more topical. I am following the news closely, because for a long time I lived in Libya. That is a strange mixture of a country. Physically, it can be amazingly beautiful, especially when you get out into the desert. Mankind has been tramping along the Mediterranean coast for many millenia, and they have left traces of their history everywhere. Absolutely the best Roman ruins are found there.
The reason I don't recommend it for a relaxing holiday is the Government. Its unique blend of chaos and oppression is hard to describe and, believe me, Ludlumesque spy thrillers don't come close. It made such an impression on me that I just had to use it as a background, although it took me a decade away to get it into perspective. As I watch the current chaos, and all the crazy people with guns, it brings back uncomfortable memories.
***
Hi Jacqueline ,
No wonder your books are doing well, I do love your cheeky banter! You are one of a kind. Congratulations!
Xx Francesca
PS: Love the American cover for Where Gold Lies. I want legs like that…
Check out Francesca's Mucho Caliente here. It's worth it.
Aunt
Amy
says...
Amy
says...
Gossip
stop
by for a chat
by for a chat
Who is Jacqueline?
Jacqueline lives in the far north of Queensland, Australia, on the shores of the Coral Sea. She has a house built for the tropical climate - on tall stilts and with walls that open to let the breeze blow through.
She lives with her husband who is easily managed, and her marmalade cat Rudy who definitely isn't.
Jacqueline lives in the far north of Queensland, Australia, on the shores of the Coral Sea. She has a house built for the tropical climate - on tall stilts and with walls that open to let the breeze blow through.
She lives with her husband who is easily managed, and her marmalade cat Rudy who definitely isn't.
Jacqueline writes romantic stories because she is an unrepentant romantic at heart. But she also loves travelling to interesting places and meeting new people, and they find a place in her stories too.
When she is not writing, she is kept busy by her garden which is still maturing. Right now her coconut trees look young and untidy
When she is not writing, she is kept busy by her garden which is still maturing. Right now her coconut trees look young and untidy
but come back in five years and they will be towering over the house.
And what could be more romantic than a coconut palm?
And what could be more romantic than a coconut palm?
Every woman's guide
Light o'Love
Witches, fantasy,
romance...
Witches, fantasy,
romance...
Her Master's Voice
finding love on
a tropical island
finding love on
a tropical island
Where Gold Lies
Pirates, treasure,
romance
Pirates, treasure,
romance
Foreign Affairs
It's sexy, but is it legal?
It's sexy, but is it legal?
Falling into Queensland
Life and love
in Queensland
Life and love
in Queensland
The Accidental Spy
Spies, terrorists and the
endless sands of
the Sahara
Spies, terrorists and the
endless sands of
the Sahara
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Eve McFadden's latest title here on Yellow Silk Dreams
Check the stories
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A new serial Gypsy
on Red Lipstick Journals.
Find it here.
Herman Cain. He has just suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination to run for President. Why was he running in the first place? I have no idea.
Like most people who are trying to ignore this circus, I know both little about Cain and more than I want to. I know he's a successful businessman, having been CEO of a successful pizza chain. I also know that he was involved in a 13-year-long extra-marital affair and has been accused by a number of women of sexual harassment. You know the scariest part? He actually went up in popularity for a while after this. Ye gods.
Who's up next? Newt Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives. A man whose game of chicken over the budget in 1994 resulted in a federal government shut down. A man who is on his third marriage, and whose current wife is the woman he cheated with on his previous wife.
This from the party that insists they stand for traditional family values. If that's a traditional family, then please, God, give me something unorthodox.
There are candidates who don't have this baggage. John Huntsman is a governor and former U.S. Ambassador to China. He accepts evolution and global warming as scientific fact and wants to deal with them. Mitt Romney is a former governor who improved health care coverage in Massachusetts (note to non-Americans -- our Constitution guarantees the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but not health insurance).
Sounds easy, right? The choice should be between Huntsman and Romney, shouldn't it?
Can I go to Canada now?
Like most people who are trying to ignore this circus, I know both little about Cain and more than I want to. I know he's a successful businessman, having been CEO of a successful pizza chain. I also know that he was involved in a 13-year-long extra-marital affair and has been accused by a number of women of sexual harassment. You know the scariest part? He actually went up in popularity for a while after this. Ye gods.
Who's up next? Newt Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives. A man whose game of chicken over the budget in 1994 resulted in a federal government shut down. A man who is on his third marriage, and whose current wife is the woman he cheated with on his previous wife.
This from the party that insists they stand for traditional family values. If that's a traditional family, then please, God, give me something unorthodox.
There are candidates who don't have this baggage. John Huntsman is a governor and former U.S. Ambassador to China. He accepts evolution and global warming as scientific fact and wants to deal with them. Mitt Romney is a former governor who improved health care coverage in Massachusetts (note to non-Americans -- our Constitution guarantees the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but not health insurance).
Sounds easy, right? The choice should be between Huntsman and Romney, shouldn't it?
Can I go to Canada now?
Exciting times!
I am absolutely fed up with the traditional book trade pushing me around. I find I can put out a paperback book here in Australia that takes ages to make a profit for me, while the distributors and book sellers are making a fortune out of it. Well, times are changing and the age of the dinosaurs is over.
I've started a new line of sexy short stories by various authors. Click on the Yellow Silk Dreams banner, and start reading...
Here she is, the mystery co-author of Looking at Me. Now, I'm not being coy. I really do not know who she is. I'm pretty sure she lives in Queensland, but I could bump into her at the supermarket and not recognise her (unless she looks like her picture, of course.)
She wants to be anonymous, and given the hot stuff she writes, that's understandable. I wonder if she is a politician with a respectable reputation
She wants to be anonymous, and given the hot stuff she writes, that's understandable. I wonder if she is a politician with a respectable reputation
to protect. Perhaps she is a judge or magistrate, or the town mayor. Well, who cares? All I know is, she can write hot stories!
The Republican Circus of 2011-12 is usually the stuff of the Democratic Party, so it’s nice to see the GOP finding it impossible to find an acceptable candidate.
Scary moments when Bush Reincarnated entered the race, only to trip over himself for being too stupid (apparently they have raised the bar since George W) and being far too liberal on immigration!
The bottom line here is that the Republican Party will never fall in line behind a Mormon or a Black man. And they’ve sold their souls so far to the Christian Right minority that they have to keep shuffling the deck hoping to find a new face card.
The latest iteration is the failed leader of the Republican Congressional Revolution/Contract with America of the early 1990s: Newt Gingrich. What the hell kind of name is Newt anyway - that’s a tadpole isn’t it?
The Tadpole is a highly educated man with simple solutions to complex problems - something JFK warned us about in his final speech before being assassinated. But that’s the way the Budweiser boys like it - keep it simple and don’t think too much. Better yet, follow Bush’s guidance and just leave the thinking to us!
Whereas none of the other candidates can hold the conservative banner quite high enough, Newt might just be the right man. Whilst assailing Bill Clinton for obtaining oral favours from a fat chick, he himself had extra marital affairs on BOTH his previous wives, and better yet the wives were gravely ill at the time! I’m wondering what clue that might hold for America. There’s got to be a campaign slogan in there somewhere!
He did make matters right, however, by marrying his current wife/former mistress with whom he was cheating on his ill second wife. One has to wonder what they would call Callista should Newt become President or Chief Philanderer: First ____________ (you fill in the blank).
Perhaps Jacqueline George is working on a political novel? Plenty of inspiration from the Republican Party!
Scary moments when Bush Reincarnated entered the race, only to trip over himself for being too stupid (apparently they have raised the bar since George W) and being far too liberal on immigration!
The bottom line here is that the Republican Party will never fall in line behind a Mormon or a Black man. And they’ve sold their souls so far to the Christian Right minority that they have to keep shuffling the deck hoping to find a new face card.
The latest iteration is the failed leader of the Republican Congressional Revolution/Contract with America of the early 1990s: Newt Gingrich. What the hell kind of name is Newt anyway - that’s a tadpole isn’t it?
The Tadpole is a highly educated man with simple solutions to complex problems - something JFK warned us about in his final speech before being assassinated. But that’s the way the Budweiser boys like it - keep it simple and don’t think too much. Better yet, follow Bush’s guidance and just leave the thinking to us!
Whereas none of the other candidates can hold the conservative banner quite high enough, Newt might just be the right man. Whilst assailing Bill Clinton for obtaining oral favours from a fat chick, he himself had extra marital affairs on BOTH his previous wives, and better yet the wives were gravely ill at the time! I’m wondering what clue that might hold for America. There’s got to be a campaign slogan in there somewhere!
He did make matters right, however, by marrying his current wife/former mistress with whom he was cheating on his ill second wife. One has to wonder what they would call Callista should Newt become President or Chief Philanderer: First ____________ (you fill in the blank).
Perhaps Jacqueline George is working on a political novel? Plenty of inspiration from the Republican Party!
Ray Phelan
American Bush Pilot in Queensland
American Bush Pilot in Queensland
