Just heard that Drumbeats has been shortlisted for the Romance Readers’ Awards 2014! This is an award voted for by real readers, not publishers or agents or journalists,  so it’s very precious to me. I can’t wait for the gala ceremony where the winner will be announced on September 13th at the Festival of Romance Literature in Leighton Buzzard. But it’s just enough to have Drumbeats up for the award. It’s made my day in the midst of a tough year – wonderful, feel elated. Thank you, readers, you are the ones that matter…gosh, I feel like launching into an Oscar style speech, thanking my publishers (NGP), cover designer (Berni Stevens), editor (Debz), my husband, my children, the dog, the cat … oh I don’t have one … ( a bit light-headed now)