These are some of the short stories and novellas I’ve written. If you sign up for my newsletter, I sometimes give them away as freebies! My short stories and novellas:

Mystery and Time-Travel Romance is a chance to explore different perspectives and include plenty of adventure and intrigue. It also takes the heroine on a journey: she has many more puzzles and challenges to solve, as well her relationship with the hero. As with Historic Romance, it’s great fun to be able to research other […]

Sport Romance shares a lot of ground with Celebrity Romance when it comes to media interest and the pressures of fame. Sports stars and athletes are also super fit, which means rippling muscles and plenty of stamina. Some sports are sexier than others: while there are any amount of novels featuring racing car drivers and […]

Religious Temptation is one of the most thrilling themes in romance fiction, because of the angst and the taboo.

Celebrity Romance comes with a whole heap of exciting obstacles and pressures. It’s always something of a three-way relationship: the heroine, the hero and the press. Then presumably his adoring fans (or hers, if she’s the famous one). Jilly  Cooper does some of the best celebrity characters, with all sorts of TV stars, musicians and […]

Age Gap romance has long been popular – from a time when it wasn’t even viewed as an age gap for a hero to be a good few years older than the heroine. It certainly wasn’t judged to be scandalous: consider Emma and Mr Knightley (21 and 37), or Marianne and Colonel Brandon (16 and […]

Student-Teacher Romance novels are a controversial but very popular genre, with a long tradition in literature and cinema.

Historic and Regency Romance is enormous fun to write, because you get to bury yourself in fascinating research.