Tomorrow I am jetting off to sunny Surfers Paradise for four days of fun and frolics with authors, publishers, agents and readers – I can’t wait. The romance writing (and reading) community in Australia has some of the warmest, friendliest and most fun folk I know, and it’s going to see everyone and meet some new faces.

As well as catching up with all the gossip and finding out about the hottest new titles around, I’ll also be taking pitches from some aspiring authors on the Friday and Saturday, and appearing on a panel ‘Speed Dating with Aussie Publishers’ on Sunday morning. You can check out the full programme here.

The theme for this year is ‘Diamonds are Forever’, so my only worry now is what to wear!

Check back with us next week when I’ll have all the news from the conference as well as plenty of photos …