Susan Stephens' Writing Diary

What a truly fantastic competition on Access Romance All-A-Blog.
Such fun hearing your ideas for alternative titles for my book, The Spanish Billionaire's Mistress.

Our eventual winner after much discussion was Jenny with 'Spanish Awakening'.

Thank you all so much for entering what I think has been my most enjoyable competition yet. I can't wait to run my next 'alternative title' contest.

And as today is Mother's Day in the UK, for those of you who are going to have a quiet moment as I am now to reflect, here is a poem by Christina Rossetti that my mother asked me to read on days like this.

Remember
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay,
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray,
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than you should remember and be sad.