WINNING AN INDEPENDENT PRESS BOOK AWARD
Because I ran my own business for a long time, when I started writing romance, I knew I wanted a good amount of control over the whole...
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evemrileyauthor
- Jun 29
- 4 min
FIVE OF THE BEST SEX SCENES OF ALL TIME
What makes a good sex scene for you? Long and drawn out or fast and furious? Perhaps the interesting use of accoutrements (honey, rope,...
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evemrileyauthor
- Jun 22
- 1 min
WINNING THE LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD
Los Angeles. Hmmm . . . movie industry, bright lights, famous actors, wannabes and scriptwriters . . . There's something about LA that...
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evemrileyauthor
- Jun 8
- 2 min
WHAT 6 ROMANTIC PARTNERS SAID WHEN THEY LEFT NOTES FOR EACH OTHER
In last week's post, I talked about finding notes from my kids, but also another set of notes that I found on the internet: notes to and...
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evemrileyauthor
- Jun 1
- 3 min
9 HILARIOUS NOTES PEOPLE LEAVE FOR EACH OTHER
The notes people leave or give to each other are like shining a light into the crevices and cracks of how we behave as people: Everything...
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evemrileyauthor
- May 24
- 1 min
SEX APOLOGY BISCUITS
I meet with a group of friends in Edinburgh to ruminate over writing, actually write (if there is not too much gossip to be shared),...
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evemrileyauthor
- May 17
- 1 min
GOLD MEDAL FROM THE GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS
I entered The Refusal for the prestigious Global Book Awards because I liked the idea that they would look at every aspect of the book,...
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evemrileyauthor
- May 12
- 3 min
A TRIP TO AMERICA
The Tech Boys Series revolves around a set of college friends who live in New York, so I was excited when restrictions lifted after COVID...
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evemrileyauthor
- May 4
- 3 min
THE READER VIEWS AWARDS
Another day, another award. Sigh. It's just so tedious how people keep giving The Refusal these things . . . hahaha. Being serious for a...
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evemrileyauthor
- Apr 26
- 2 min
CHAPTER 34 HAD A MUCH LONGER SEX SCENE
Another great joy of launching The Refusal was finding out what readers had to say. It was such a delight to see all their edits when...
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evemrileyauthor
- Apr 19
- 1 min
WINNING THE PINNACLE BOOK AWARDS
I put The Refusal in for as many awards as I could find, expecting that the competition would be fierce and maybe I'd win something if I...
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evemrileyauthor
- Mar 7
- 2 min
AN INDIES TODAY BOOK AWARD SEMI-FINALIST
I am so thrilled to be a semi-finalist in the Indies Today 2021 book awards. Their book review for The Refusal is amazing too (see...
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evemrileyauthor
- Feb 2
- 1 min
8 VICIOUSLY FUNNY Marriage Tweets
One of the joys of being involved in the bookish community on social media is exploring fun things to post, alongside promoting my books....
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evemrileyauthor
- Jan 11
- 1 min
WINNING A BOOK AWARD
So I was scrolling down the page thinking . . . yeah, yeah, won't even have got placed. There's not even a romance section . . . there's...
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evemrileyauthor
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
A ROMANCE READER VIDEO
One of the great joys of being on social media is all the amazing readers who get in touch. When @romance.novel.junkies (find her here)...
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evemrileyauthor
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
Romance reader CHIT-CHAT
Readers of The Refusal have had a lot they want to talk to me about. That lift scene. Does Janus's company go down? Is Fabian guilty? And...
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evemrileyauthor
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
EDITS, EDITS, EDITS
One of the joys of sharing The Refusal on social media has come from fans responding with their own ideas about the book, often in quite...
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evemrileyauthor
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
A CATNAP
We got Daisy as a kitten and she was the runt of the litter. At six weeks, she was half the size she was supposed to be, having never...
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evemrileyauthor
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.
One of the joys of writing is including places you love, and The Techboys Series contains a whole series of places in New York that are...
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evemrileyauthor
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
A ROMANCE BOOKBOX
I'm delighted to announce that The Refusal is being included in a romance bookbox and I am so excited to be included with Elle Nicoll and...
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