Writing this with a very full heart. It’s Thanksgiving this week in the US, but it’s thanksgiving in London as well, because my husband has just learned that he’s cancer-free!!!... It was thymic mass cancer - discovered by sheer chance, not a single symptom -  and only 1% of all UK cancers are thymic mass. It was surgically removed a month ago, and sent off for biopsy. Finally, yesterday the results arrived: the surgeon’s hunches all proved to be spot-on. It was a thymic mass cancer BUT… it hasn’t spread – he won’t need chemo – and it’s very unlikely to return, though he’ll be monitored from now on, of course.

So, I’m feeling wave after wave of thankfulness!!! – and not only because of Simon’s health. Thanks so much for all your support of Marianne!! She is flying!!! Was a #1 new release in three different categories at different times/days, and at one point in the top 2500 books (including NON-fiction) Amazon was flogging at the time. Which is crazy-good, for an indy author, especially.

Reader reviews at Amazon are slightly held-up at present - a world-wide issue, affecting everybody - so many of you will probably have sent in a review that has yet to appear, but I still want to thank those of you who have reviewed it!!!!  Yours, feeling very very grateful, Alice

Today the mega-eminent romance author Rose Pearson and I are recommending each other’s latest to our subscribers. (Am secretly hoping Marianne is romantic enough for her supporters because, as you know, it’s by far my most romantic so far, but is still pretty satirical…)

At any rate, Rose’s latest is an all-new boxset, and an amazing bargain as well, with SIX clean, intelligent and witty Regency romances on board -including this one:

New offer here (historical fiction of every sort – from cosy mystery to wars, from romances to literary). Everything from the well-known James Martin’s tale of Napoleon’s secret love to Michele Cox’s classy 19^th-century The Fallen Woman’s Daughter and Matched in Merriweather.

Click below for your chance to win lovely earrings replicating one of the few known portraits. Open to supporters from ANY country: sweepwidget will choose the winner randomly!!!!