Cover reveal — The Secret Daughter
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
23h ago
Thanks to all of you who played the jigsaw game and saw the cover for The Secret Daughter. For those who didn’t play, or couldn’t, or didn’t have the time, here it is in full. My editor and the Berkley Art Dept and I went through several cover designs and the final version was tweaked several times. I’m very grateful for their patience, but covers are so important, especially now that the market is flooded with books and most people buy on line. But I’m very happy with the final result. It’s so pretty, don’t you think? I’ll tell you more about the story later — it comes out on Christmas Eve 2 ..read more
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My New Cover — A Jigsaw
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1w ago
My publisher and I have finalised the new cover for the book I’ve just finished, The Secret Daughter, and  I’m very happy with it. As promised, I will share it first with the people who subscribe to my blog — that’s you! But I’m being tricky , so first up I’m sharing it as an online  jigsaw puzzle.   This one isn’t as hard as the last one, which quite a few of you found too hard, so it’s  only 35 pieces.   https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3c274453253d But if you want to try one that’s a little bit harder here’s one with 70 pieces.  https://www.jigsawp ..read more
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Lorikeets
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1w ago
I love lorikeets — small rainbow-coloured parrots and usually, when I hear them chittering and screeching in my tree at home in the morning, I smile. It’s such a happy sound. But here in Coolangatta, where my writers’ retreat takes place, hundreds of them nest in the Norfolk Island Pine trees that line the street outside. So in the evening, when they come in to sleep, and at dawn when they wake, they make a tremendous racket. It’s quite deafening. By the time the sun’s up, they’re gone to wherever they go to forage for the day. (Probably to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary where peopl ..read more
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On Retreat
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1w ago
I’m away from home at the moment, on my annual writing retreat. We’ve been doing it since 2007, and for the past few years we’ve come to the same place, a holiday apartment complex opposite the beach in southern Queensland. That’s the view from my “office” for this week. There are nine of us in the group, all multi published, and though we started out all writing for the same publisher (HarlequinMills&Boon) we’ve branched out quite a bit since then. I was already with Berkley before that first retreat but others have moved to different publishers since then, and quite a few of us have dip ..read more
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The Next Stage
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
3w ago
I heard back from my editor yesterday, regarding the manuscript I sent in at the beginning of February. Her email started: “I thoroughly enjoyed The Secret Daughter!” and she went on to say what she particularly liked about the story. So I was very pleased with that. In the next paragraph she mentioned something she thought might be a problem that I should address, and suggested a way I could fix it — which involved a lot of changes. But while editors are always right when they spot a problem, their suggestions as to how to fix it often are not. In this case, I could see a very easy fix ..read more
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Another Bookbub
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1M ago
My publisher has organized a Bookbub special for THE SCOUNDREL’S DAUGHTER. The special price reduction starts on the 16th Feb and finishes on Feb 23, 2024. It will be priced $1.99 for US readers only but check your preferred e-book seller, as sometimes the special can carry over. Last time I had a US only special and readers in Canada reported that they could get it. It’s always tricky to get the news out in time to readers, as I never get much notice myself, so if you want to make sure you don’t miss out on one of these specials click here (it’s a link to my Bookbub page) and click on FOLLOW ..read more
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Valentine’s Day
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1M ago
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. While I’m all in favor of love and romance and kindness, Valentine’s Day has always felt too commercial to me. When I was growing up it was almost unheard of in Australia. We certainly didn’t exchange cards or do school projects making valentines. It’s very much a recent  phenomenon here, driven mainly by TV and other commercial groups. So I’m a bit of a grinch about the day. To me, romance and love should be celebrated whenever the mood strikes you, and you shouldn’t have to buy presents, like perfect-looking red roses that have no scent, and chocolates ..read more
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Happy New Year
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1M ago
Happy Chinese New Year, that is, or as some prefer to call it,  the Lunar New Year. I grew up with it being called Chinese New Year even though I know some other cultures have different names for it. But there has been a tradition of celebration and a dragon parade here dating back to the 19th century, starting in the Gold Rush towns, where there were large Chinese populations. (Photo by Sahil Pandita on Unsplash In the state of Victoria, where I live, there was a very impressive  Chinese procession in the town of Beechworth in 1874 — you can see the engraving  here ..read more
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Distractions
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1M ago
One of the things I am trying to do at the moment, now that the book has gone (for a while at least) is to tackle the many boxes I still haven’t unpacked. They’re mostly books, and the difficulty for me is that I need to cull them. I gave away two very large bookshelves when I moved, and had some new bookshelves built in, but there’s still not enough space, so it’s culling, culling, culling for me. Not fun. Anyway, the focus at the moment is setting up my office. I don’t really need an office to work in anymore, as I write on my laptop, which can go anywhere. But when a friend visited and we ..read more
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The book is in!
Anne Gracie
by AnneG
1M ago
I just sent in the full  draft of  THE SECRET DAUGHTER, my latest book, and am wiped. It’s always a rush to the end for me, as I try to tie in all the loose threads —and since this is the last book in the Brides of Bellaire Gardens series, there’s a need to tie in the series, too, I think. It’s now with my editor in New York. She will read the manuscript, and give me feedback and make suggestions for revisions. I’m always very glad to receive those because by the time I finish a book, I can’t see the wood for the trees. Once I have that, I will revise the manuscript again — hoping I ..read more
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