Hi. I’m Rhoda. I write smart contemporary romantic comedy. In real life, I’m a former scientist who now works with intellectual property. The rest of the time I’m a sensible grown up.
Years ago, when I commuted into London every day, I read a lot. I now write the sort of books I wanted to read.
My first book, Patently In Love made it into the top ten of the 2012 Preditors and Editors poll. The second, Having a Ball is scheduled for release spring 2013. I am a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.
I have nominated you for the Sunshine Award. The details will be up on my blog very soon! Your posts are always a ray of sunshine:)
Wow. Thank you! You’ve made my morning.
Excellent
So proud of you!
I enjoy contemporary romantic comedy so please do get in touch if you would like me to read and review your novels. To see if you like the sort of reviews I produce please check out my book review blog first.
http://lindyloumacbookreviews.blogspot.it/
I was amazed (and pleased!) to read about “Patently In Love” in IPKat today when I caught up with reading IPKat after being away for a few days. Would you believe that, as a retired patent attorney, I published my first novel (“The Schmetterling Effect”) on Amazon on 15 March 2012 (the same day as you) and that the hero is a male English patent attorney who falls head over heels for an Irish trade mark attorney who he meets in her office in Dublin? Having said that, the love story is incidental to the main plot, so I do not see our books being in competition. My main plot line is that the consumption by a Dr Schmetterling (which is German for “butterfly”) of a considerable amount of Irish stout in an Irish bar in Berlin in 2005 leads, a few years in the future from now, to reformation of the European Union (EU) in an ugly form, nuclear war in the middle east, economic collapse in Ireland, the discovery of huge oil and gas reserves under Ireland concealed by the EU, a vicious murder, retribution for the murder, and a geopolitical effect of surprising magnitude! (Also, for IP-type readers, some digital signal processing and mechanical engineering is thrown in!)
Anyway, I hope that we are both successful in our ventures from the technical into the artistic.
Hi Ivan
Sounds like 15 March 2012 was a good day for IP related literature!
Your book sounds very different to mine. I’ll have to go have a look on Amazon. Good luck with the book.
Rhoda
Congratulations and well done!! I can’t wait to read it? Will the book be coming out in paperback?
The book is only due out as an eBook, but you never know, if a publisher decides to take up the paperback rights…
Happy publication day!
Thanks!
Just downloaded it – can’t wait to curl up with a cuppa and read it
I really, really hope you like it.
How exciting! I look forward to reading, Patently In Love.
I learn something new every day. Never knew you had this talent, but very well done!!!!! Marion.
I can’t wait to read it! There’s a heart under every labcoat
Quite right. I feel there aren’t enough lab coats around in fiction.
Very excited about your book! Don’t you mean March 2012 though?