Christina's Hero of the Week - Andy Schleck

Andy Schleck

The nomination for “hero of the week” goes to Andy Schleck, until yesterday the overall leader of this year’s Tour de France and wearer of the famous yellow jersey (maillot jaune).

The Tour de France is the most prestigious and well-known cycling race in the world, where [...]

Choc Lit goes to Conference

The condemned panel enjoys a joke

Maybe I shouldn’t have had those pictures of Tony Robinson power-pointed as I spoke. I have a teensy idea that they may have influenced the audience to giggle, just a trifle when I talked about the hero of Please Don’t Stop the Music, Ben Davies. But at least they [...]

Sue Moorcroft's Hero of the Week - Mark Webber

Mark Webber, Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010

Last weekend saw the Formula 1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, won by Mark Webber.

Mark isn’t my absolutely favourite driver - Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, the Brits, are currently top of my charts - but Mark’s my hero this week because he stood up for himself [...]

Choc Lit talk at RNA conference in Greenwich

 

 

Sue and Christina

This past weekend some of us attended the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s annual conference, held at Greenwich Old Royal Naval College this year.  Marketing director Lyn gave a well-attended talk on the Saturday, answering questions about all aspects of Choc Lit, and she will no doubt be inundated [...]

Music and Heroes - Christina Courtenay

 

Billie Joe Armstrong

I’ve often been told I have strange taste in music. I think what people mean is I don’t act my age. Too bad! I don’t think music should be “ageist” and when I hear something I like, I don’t stop to consider what age group [...]

Hero Controversy

Danuta Kean’s article in the Daily Mail last week, entitled “Heroes? The new men of modern romantic fiction are about as sexy as socks!” caused no end of controversy among romantic fiction authors. Since Choc Lit is the home of heroes “as irresistible as chocolate”, we thought we’d [...]

Heroes

Jared Leto

Since an irresistible hero is the most important ingredient in a Choc Lit novel, you might like to know how we go about creating them. The process is as individual as each author, so here’s a quick paragraph from each of us on how we do it:-

Christina C – My heroes are always [...]