{"id":722,"date":"2011-11-03T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/news\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-11-03T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T16:29:47","slug":"3-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/2011\/3-november-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"3 November 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hi there, I’d like to tell you a bit about my beautiful and talented friend\u00a0India Grey<\/a>. It was pretty much love at first site when we met at Kate Walker’s 50th book celebrations about five years ago. Not long afterwards, we agreed to share a hotel room in London for the Annual Mills and Boon Author lunch and discovered that our bathroom had opaque doors which also happened to be see-through, do not ask how this is possible.<\/p>\n This would be dubious even for a romantic couple (come on, where’s the mystery??!) and in our case it destroyed about five levels of ‘getting to know you’ in one fell swoop. Let’s just say it’s quite an, er, bonding experience. And provided much hilarity for the editors in Mills and Boon. We always aim to please ;).<\/p>\n Since then she’s come to Dublin to visit me and I’ve been to Cheshire to visit her. She was there for me when the ash cloud struck and we did a Thelma and Louise style road trip to Holyhead so that I could get the ferry home. Without bumping into Brad Pitt on the way, alas.<\/p>\n She won the RNA’s prestigious Romance Prize in 2009 for Mistress for the Billionaire’s Pleasure<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n She is a tea-aholic and has a sense of style in all things that would make a grown woman weep. She IS the domestic goddess.<\/p>\n But, she is also a writing goddess. October 2011 saw the release of Craving the Forbidden<\/strong><\/em>,<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n and part 2 of this linked series of books is out in December, In Bed With a Stranger<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m waiting until I have both copies to read because I am waaay too impatient to read one and not have the other to hand immediately. I don’t do delayment of gratification!<\/p>\n All of her stories are infused with a gorgeous dreamy timelessness that characterizes the most classic romances. And she is currently working on a longer single-title story which I’m sure will be stupendously brilliant. I have visions of it being optioned for a huge film or TV series a la Downton Abbey and then I can come along to visit the set as the writer’s friend<\/em>\u00a0and generally create mayhem and havoc. No pressure India ;).<\/p>\n Basically, she’s brilliant and if you haven’t been reading her books then don’t come back until you have. This is me, showing her how much I love her at this year’s AMBA day…<\/p>\n