I can’t believe it’s the middle of the year already.

I’ve just had my statements from Harlequin Mills and Boon and this time of year reminds me of books that I wrote and haven’t thought about for a while and all the people who do me the honour of buying my books and spend their time reading them.

One day I sat and added up all the copies of all of my books that had been sold, and for a lover of romance, a country midwife who loves her job, a mother and wife who loves to share that in her books, it comes to around 900,000 sold books. Not counting those borrowed from the library, or borrowed from a friend, and it’s a pretty humbling number. Of course that’s nowhere near the number out there for someone like Lillian Darcy or Marion Lennox

I guess that’s why you can’t just dash off a book. That’s why you have to live what those people in your books are living and feeling and that’s why you can’t take for granted the readers who share my journey with me. If every person who reads one of my books, smiles once, that’s 900,000 smiles. How cool is that!

Last month I showed the UK cover of THE MIDWIFE’S BABY which is out now in the UK and on-line in Australia and this month I’d to share the Australian cover with you because I think it’s beautiful too.

I’m so excited my North American version will be out for July on eharlequin.com. which makes it available at the RWAm Conference in San Francisco and RWAus in Melbourne.

I wanted to share  another sunset which you can see at the top. I’m so into sunsets. I’m thinking of adding a page to the site because I have all these different sunsets from back door and they always make me feel so glad to be alive. I’d love to share them with you. Must talk to Penny, my webmistress <G> My mum was the same. She had albums of them. Must be hereditary.

We live above a swamp, sometimes a paddock for cows to graze, sometimes a lake that stretches to the hills. Last week I kayaked over the paddocks with a friend and it was truly magical. With these two photos below, the left photo is the back fence a way from the house and the right is the front of my kayak as I’m paddling through the woods.

This view will be so different next month when I fly out to San Francisco to the Romance Writers Of America conference in August. I can’t believe the trip has come around so soon.

I’ve finished Misty and Ben’s story, Ben was such a different hero for me, and now I’ve started the third book of the Lyrebird Lake series. Already Mia has knocked Angus for six. This book is going to be such fun. I love series books because it’s really wonderful to peek at how married life goes with previous heroes and heroines. I’m off to write my Blog for the medicalromance.blogspot.com, LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE, so I’ll catch you again before I jet out on my trip. More on that next month.

Don’t forget to enter my Competition for a copy of The Midwife’s Secret on the comps page. Good luck. It’s drawn on the 30th June

Warmest regards and happy reading

Fi