New Contract!

It's been an exciting week since my return from holiday. I've now signed a contract with Crooked Cat Publishing for my full length Scottish novel, The Highland Lass! I had submitted it during their recent two-day submission window and was thrilled to be invited to send the full manuscript. Then came the nervous period we all experience when awaiting a verdict.

The Highland Lass is scheduled for a spring 2015 release and I'm so delighted this book will soon be published. It's really of the book of my heart and is a little different from my other lighter romances so it will be under my full name. It's mostly contemporary with family secrets, love, betrayal and forgiveness set around my own birth area of Inverclyde with a bit in Dunoon and Ayrshire. But alternate short chapters trace the story of Highland Mary and Robert Burns in Mary's own fictionalised voice in 1785/6.

I had an article about the legendary couple published in The Highlander Magazine in the US some years ago and their story has fascinated me for a long time. But the novel is very much about the contemporary story involving Eilidh and Lewis.

No doubt you'll be hearing more about it nearer to publication - or when the cover is designed by the publisher!

Rosemary