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We are so honored to have such a wonderful line up this month here at Coffee Time.

We will be having Day in the Life with some fabulous Harlequin authors. Readers have you ever wanted to know what happens in an author’s writing life? What is their goals? What books do they have coming out? What stories are they working on? How did they start writing for Harlequin? Now is the time to find out all the details on your favorite authors and meet your new favorites (wink). These wonderful ladies have prizes to give away and information on their new books and themselves they are going to share with us during the entire month of July.

And to put you right over the top on the information highway, you can pop into The Pink Heart Society blog and the ladies there will have more great news and special things for you including a great big ‘hamper’ of neat things to give away!

So pop in every day so that you don’t miss all of the great goodies here and in our Featured Contests for the month of July, just click and win!

We are going to start this month off with a special Congratulations to an author and her 50th book release!  So stay tuned to find out about a Day in the Life of Kate Walker!

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  • KarenneLyn

    I have always loved books but discovered romance books later in life while home with a sick child thanks to my best friend, Brenda. It didn't take long to meet up with Karen and learn that we shared a lot more than a love of books. We are sisters in spirt who want to help people spread the word about books. KarenneLyn is the web designer of Coffee Time Romance and several other sites. This wonderful exploration of her creative side has become a fun thing to learn and opened the door to meeting some wonderful people.

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I have always loved books but discovered romance books later in life while home with a sick child thanks to my best friend, Brenda. It didn't take long to meet up with Karen and learn that we shared a lot more than a love of books. We are sisters in spirt who want to help people spread the word about books. KarenneLyn is the web designer of Coffee Time Romance and several other sites. This wonderful exploration of her creative side has become a fun thing to learn and opened the door to meeting some wonderful people.

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  • Claudine

    Fifty books? That’s quite an achievement, congratulations Kate!! I’m always so fascinated by what goes on in authors’ minds. How do you come up with your ideas? Is it your characters or the plot that drives your story? Have you visited the locations in your books, or is it just lots of research? I think that’s all for now, but I will be back.

  • Kate Walker

    Hi Claudine

    Thank you for your congratulations – I have to admit that I’m stunned to find myself at this total of 50. It doesn’t seem that long since I was just starting out. But I suppose I take each book one at a time and don’t think about trying to aim for what would once have seemed an impossible total.

    You asked about my writing and my ideas. For me it’s always the characters that are the most important – I’m telling their stories so I need to know them really well. That way, sometimes the story will just flow from who they are rather than trying to find a complicated plot. Ideas come from all over the place – from a story I read in a newspaper of a magazine or watching a film or a ‘soap’, and thinking ‘I’d do that differently . . ‘ Or sometime s just one line will stick in my head and I’l wonder just what would have made someone say it. Really, people are just so fascinating that reading/watching/learning all about them creates ideas.

    The places I write about? Well, I’ve been to some of them – Malta, Spain, France. . . But other places I do research on and study the cultures and – again – the people.

    Thanks for coming by.

    Kate

  • Pam P

    Great line up, thanks to all of you for sharing, and special congrats to Kate on attaining that milestone,

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