If you haven't see the list, then you can find it here.
Good luck to the long list 'winners' - but really, the hard work starts now. It;s one thing to create a first chapter, polish it and submit it and win the attention of the editors/reader voters - quite another to craft it into a full length, fully developed and readable story. Go for it!
Those who have not been selected - this is not the end. I'm sure that more than the 28 long listers will have been noticed - and I hope that having taken the plunge and written something you will not give up now. Remember, getting published is a marathon, not a sprint - keep on keeping on and hopefully there will be many newly published authors from this contest.
Photo - I expect you'll be seeing lots of these all over the web in the last few days - When the authors all met for the annual Association of Mills & Boon lunch, back in September, Harlequin provided a photographer to take photos of everyone there so a s to provide a new publicity photograph for author pages etc. We all received our copies of the new photos last week and as I said many authors have been posting them on their web sites, blogs etc. So if you've always wondered what a favourite author looks like you'll find them around the web.
And if you want to know what mine looks like - well, here you are.
The Babe Magnet likes it, so does The Offspring and even Flora and Charlie think it looks like Mum!
