Vonnie Hughes

My latest historical intrigue from Robert Hale Ltd can now be purchased at:
www.halebooks.com
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780709090052/Coming-Home
Remember there are no postal charges with TBD.

UPDATE! Great news! My contemporary suspense critiquer, Viv Constable from New Zealand (like yours truly) has just come 2nd in the SARA Merritt contest AND Wanda Ottewell from Harlequin SuperRomance has requested a full copy of Viv's book, Holding Out For a Hero. (Don't you love the title)? So my very best, best wishes go to Viv. Got my toes crossed for you Viv.

And now Viv has come 2nd in the Agent's Choice Contest (RWNZ) and is pitching to Laura Bradford.  How good is that?

UPDATE! One of my Regency critiquers from the Demimonde group, Karen Dobbins, won the Beacon Contest with her Regency novel, Never Too Late. NAL then requested a full of NTL, and two agents are also reading it with a view to representing Karen. Great, huh? Now she is working on her fourth manuscript, Beholden.

UPDATE! Another critiquer from Demimonde, Susanna Fraser, will have her Regency, The Sergeant's Lady, published by Carina Press on August 23. Susanna's blog is http://authorsusannafraser.blogspot.com

UPDATE! Yes, ANOTHER member of Demimonde, Alyssa Everett, has been accepted by Dorchester, (for a Regency of course). She will be published in May 2011 and the title of her book is Tryst with Trouble.

And don't forget Rose Lerner's Regencies - our other crit partner who has received rave reviews of her novel In for a Penny. Her next novel is titled Lily Among Thorns and is coming out soon. See www.roselerner.com

I am being published online at Author-Exchange with a contemporary short story called 'Daddy's Money.'

 

Hello there! Welcome to my web site.

I promise to keep it up to date so you can pop in when you feel like it and find something different every time.

My bio – hmm. I’m a very ordinary woman who, after many years of working for others decided that we could scrape by financially if I took the bull by the horns and did what I always wanted to do – write fulltime.

I write Regency and Victorian romantic suspense and contemporary suspense. I try to make my historicals meaty without being didactic. Rules are the bane of my existence. Often those writing rules take me on a journey I did not expect. Ask any writer. I’m a pantster, but I still have to abide by rules such as external and internal goals, motivation and conflict – the stuff that strikes fear into all writers.

I prefer to write psychological suspense with small amounts of action. Don’t get me wrong – I like action as much as the next woman and Suzanne Brockman is my favorite author – but my writing seems to lend itself to the twists and turns of warped minds à la Ruth Rendell and Jeffrey Deaver. Which says something not very nice about me, huh?

And you know what? I’m happiest when I’m writing. Okay – I’m not happy to receive rejections from agents and publishers, but if I’m taken away from the computer for more than a day or so, I get twitchy – very twitchy. And you wouldn’t want me twitchy now, would you? So after an early morning toddle with the dog and a slightly more energetic workout on my own, I creep back to the typist’s chair and hammer out a few more lines.

And I love it.

Pop in again soon, and if you wish to contact me, my business email is vonniehughes@gmail.com. Let me know what sort of things you like to read.

Vonnie