Read an E Book Week...

It's Read an EBook Week at Smashwords and there are a load of great books to download for free or at discounted prices.

I have about a dozen book at Smashwords and two of them are free this week, Eloping With Emmy and Wild Justice.

The huge advantage with offers at Smashwords is that they are available worldwide (unlike Amazon where the deals often don't reach Australia) and can be downloaded for any devidce, (including the Kindle).

So go and fill your boots, find some new authors, have fun!

August...

Harlequin are continuing their re-release of my backlist with three new books on sale in July and August.

In the UK they've started using pretty new covers to give the books a fresh new look and I'm absolutely delighted with what they've done with The Three Year Itch and All She Wants for Christmas  Don't be fooled by the title which was changed by Marketing from Trouble in Paradise when a December slot opened up.

This book is set on a Caribbean island made for two and has nothing to with Christmas. At all.

In the US, Harlequin have taken the opposite tack and are using original covers and Dating Her Boss is, happily, one of my favourite covers. A real classic.

Interestingly, catching up on these books, I've realised how much the Romance line has changed since I started writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon.

The heroes in these books are much more like Presents/Modern heroes - alpha, arrogant, tortured men.

For me, the men changed when I began writing scenes from their point of view. My first dual vp book was Eloping With Emmy (which is, incidentally available at the moment as an ebook for 99c) in which the hero took the lead vp role and we saw him falling in love - and knowing that it was all going to end in tears


Which do you prefer - the old or the new covers? And do you still enjoy those old books where the hero is darkly enigmatic - or do you want to know what is going on in that handsome head?


Leave a comment and I'll give away a copy of any one of my available backlist books for whoever's name comes out of the hat!

Freebie Friday!

Summer has taken a long time to reach us in the UK. We’ve had the coldest May for 50 years. But the sun has been shining for four days in a row and the dh – catching up in the garden — has “caught” the sun. 

In the spirit of the season — and aware that everyone needs something fun and flirty to read when they’re lying in a shady spot, something long and cool within easy reach — I’ve set Eloping With Emmy free this weekend.

It’s yours for a click of the mouse to download from Amazon (wherever you are in the world!) right now and until Tuesday 11^th June.

Emmy and Brodie each have a clear cut goal in mind — she has a stated objective; he’s determined to thwart it. She’s smart, but he’s smarter – and having made the mistake of aiding her getaway, he’s not about to repeat his error. There is the added problem that Emmy is deeply attracted to Brodie. This is particularly awkward as she’s supposed to eloping with someone else. A someone else she has to convince Brodie she’s determined to marry.

Eloping With Emmy is a classic road trip romcom and as I was writing it, the chase across England and France played out like a movie in my head. Actually, if tbere's anyone out there who would like to turn it into a movie I own all the rights so do get in touch! Any ideas who should play the lead parts (and links to gorgeous blokes and lively women) gratefully received. J

There’s a taster on my website

Meanwhile, here are the links – just one click and the book will be on your reading device before you can say Jack Robinson. Don’t keep the news to yourself. Emmy is counting on you tweeting about her, sharing the news on Facebook, or just about anywhere to be honest.

Also available in English here - 

 Canada
 Germany
 France
 Italy

What people are saying about Eloping With Emmy ...

"I caught myself thinking half way through the book this is like a madcap comedy with Cary Grant in the lead... only to have the hero think the exact same thing within the next 2 pages. One for the keeper shelf."   5 stars, Amazon Review

"Wow!  The story was so well written, the characters came alive and everyone knows an "Emmy". The twists were well planned and the dialogue vibrant and cleverly written.  Highly recommended, it's one of the best books I've read in a long time."  Smashwords, janebaylis1979

"...non-stop action with dynamic scenes and vivid characterization."  Romantic Times

I've been a Liz Fielding fan for years now and she never disappoints. Eloping with Emmy has all her trademark wit and original plotlines and it fizzes along like a vintage 50s rom com yet - has an undercurrent of heartfelt emotion.  5 stars, Amazon Review

Cover art

For twenty years – ever since my first book, An Image of You, was published — I’ve been obsessing about cover art. That first cover was so pleasing that it would have been difficult for any of those that followed to match it.

The hero was suitably mature, the heroine had the right colour hair and the African backdrop was perfect.

Since then, covers have been a bit of a roller-coaster. One or two have brought tears to my eyes — and not of joy.

Now, with three of my early books reverted to me, I’ve been on a cover image hunt of my own and suddenly I’m feeling a lot more sympathetic for those guys in Toronto who have to produce 50+ every month. It’s a bit like a car assembly line; you don’t want to be the last one of the day.

The three books I’m working on were a mixed bag. Old Desires was pretty enough, although the hero was too young. Dangerous Flirtation was cute and got everything right. A Stranger’s Kiss was a disaster with a heroine so hard-faced that any man would have run a mile and the hero wasn't wearing one of those ridiculous collars and I was really looking forward to giving that one a makeover.

Replacing them with something that truly appeals to me has not, however, been the piece of cake I fondly imagined it would be. Flirting and kissing are just about nailed, but Old Desires? How on earth can I demonstrate that in a cover appealing enough, sexy enough to have the reader hitting the one-click!

Any suggestions gratefully received – and downloads of Eloping With Emmy for those that inspire me, or make me laugh!

Riva is back...

After a long summer, when those of us in the UK have had to endure the coldest, wettest season in history (probably), we have also been deprived of our favourite Riva reads - fun, sexy, flirty, romantic - while Mills and Boon gave it a cover makeover.

With the kids about to go back to school the relaunch couldn't be better timed. Wave them off in the school bus, or drop them at the gates, make a cup of coffee and put your feet up for a blissful break with one of books in the relaunch package.

There will be fifteen books available in this first tranch.

It's a sort of test run, to see which covers grab the passing reader's attention. They'll be exclusive to W H Smith in the retail sector, but will be available to download, too, from Mills and Boon and from Amazon.

Some of them are books that have been released before. You'll find my RNA Rose Award shortlisted romance Flirting With Italian in there, so if you didn't catch the first time round, now's your chance.

There's a brand new author Leah Ashton who is getting fabulous reviews, and fan favourite Kelly Hunter.

There will be books by Nina Harrington, Jessica Hart, Kimberly Lang and Ally Blake.

So, what do you think of the new look?

Don't hold back - the whole purpose of this exercise is engage with the reader, get feedback. Enquiring minds wants to know!

And for those of you in the US who want some of this new series/new cover action, the Riva titles will be available in a new series called KISS in the Spring!

Meanwhile, The Last Woman He'd Ever Date (to be released in Riva next year) is on sale now in the US, along with the reissue of Eloping with Emmy as an ebook - there are excerpts on my website.

Enjoy the last week of summer. See you in the autumn!

Love, Liz