Creative Writing Workshop in Posara, Italy, May 2008
As a great excuse to see a bit of Italy with other romance writers, I attended a creative writing workshop at the Watermill for a week in Tuscany. I had such a great time hanging out with a bunch of British writers, among them the fabulous Sharon Kendrick!
To read more about my week in Tuscany, please see Romance Under the Sun.
Find out how Posara was the inspiration for The Innocent's Dark Seduction by reading More About the Story.
Sharon and me.
The Watermill, the beautiful
18th-century estate in Posara, Tuscany where we spent our week at the
creative writing workshop!
Here we are working indoors on a
rainy day, brainstorming plot ideas for the book we wrote together. You can tell I'm sitting at the end from all the empty candy wrappers. (Hey, a girl's gotta have breakfast...)
We worked two hours each morning and two hours in the afternoon, mostly outside beneath the hot Italian sun! I'm still hoping Sharon might turn our plot
outline into a book. Here's a picture of Sharon and me with a few of the other students: from left, Rachael Lloyd from Wales, Carol from France and Susan from England.
Since 2008 is Mills & Boon's Centenary (Mills
& Boon is the British side of Harlequin), a BBC film crew came to the
Watermill to film two days of our class for a documentary scheduled for
November 2008 on BBC 4.
Sharon Kendrick and Jennie Lucas
"researching" the shops in Lucca, Italy
Sharon and me, hatching plots over coffee in Lucca's town square
British novelist and BBC
documentary presenter