My second completed novel is Wait a Lonely Lifetime and is my first published novel, contracted to Avalon Books, New York. This was a work in progress when I spoke to Lia Brown in July 2010. By the end of September, the book was in her hands. You can read about this book, my process in writing it and what happens next in my online writer's journal, EverWriting. I was a guest at Four Foxes One Hound on the 28th of April 2011, and was interviewed at USAToday by Joyce Lamb, whose two Paranormal Romances are finalists in the RWA RITA®.

My Facebook page, Leigh Verrill-Rhys, Novelist, has details of the publication date, what my editor says about this novel and other information. Wait a Lonely Lifetime is now available in Public Libraries and online book retailers: Amazon & Barnes & Noble or a signed copy here:

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Previous Releases:

My second contemporary novel, Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls, was completed at the end of 2009 and revised in 2012 and 2014. This novel is a work of the heart, mind and soul – my magnum opus. Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls is available on all major online book retailers, as well as through the ebook services of some libraries. About this novel:

He's a lawyer. He's her boss. He's the pterodactyl man she wants.

She's broken. She's too good for him. She's the answer to his prayers.

David Gitano's family believes she is using him. Emily Burdis's family believes he is using her.

Members of the Board force him to take the blame for a conspiracy that will destroy his career and he's the kind of pterodactyl man who will do what it takes to protect his family.

The conspirators pressure her to abandon him to his fate but she's just as much a raptor as her lover when it comes to the family they have created together. A custody battle for his two-year son is the ultimate weapon but even that fails when Emily employs her public relations training to stack the family court against David's in-laws.

The third, This Can't Be Love, is set in Edinburgh and is the second in my In Love In Europe.

2012 and 2013 Releases:

Nights Before: a serial novel told in six installments: A winter, spring, summer and fall tale of looking for the right one, set in Portland, Maine. The characters include Jocelyn Tavers, Officer Brad Foster, Barney Fitz aka Gordon Fieldcott, Dr. Verge and Jed Tavers. The six stories of Nights Before are all available on the iBookstore, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

This series of short stories is now available as a paperback, Nights Before: The Novel, on Createspace and Amazon.

Works in Progress:

My fifth contemporary novel is called Dance by the Light of the Moon, set in Cardiff, Chicago and Phoenix, is the third in the In Love in Europe series.

Anthologies of Women's Autobiography

I have been a Director and Editor for Honno: Welsh Women's Press since 1987. During the same period, I have been an international book distributor and marketing consultant for writers, artists and businesses in Wales.

I began my writing career in San Francisco as a short story writer for several small magazines and the Public Broadcasting Service. Once I had moved to Wales, I concentrated on editing the autobiographical and non-fiction writing of women living in Wales with the publication of On My Life - a collection that won second prize in the Raymond Williams Award for Community Publishing in 1990.

I was given an Arts Council of Wales grant to join the masterclass of the poet, Leslie Norris, at the Hay Festival a short time later. I had been involved with the Writers on Tour scheme of the Arts Council as well as a member of the Undeb Awduron Cymru for several years. When the influential Welsh language writers' union and the Writers' Union of Wales were incorporated into the Academi Gymreig, I became a member of the Academi.

In 1992, I had the privilege of working with the historian, Deirdre Beddoe, on the collection, Parachutes & Petticoats, inspired by my mother's experiences during World War II, a book that has enjoyed several reprints and is available again in a new format since January 2010. And, in 2002, Iancs, Conshîs a Spam was published as the Welsh language companion volume to Parachutes – stories and experiences of Welsh-speaking women in Wales written in their first language, offers a different perspective on the experience of women in war.

These books have found their way into bibliographies in books such as Shelter Me by Alex McAulay, Older Widows And The Life Course: Multiple Narratives Of Hidden Lives (New Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life) by Pat Chambers, The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life by Jeffrey Weeks, Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction (Women's and Gender History) by June Purvis, Ail: Webster's Timeline History, 450 BC - 2007 by Icon Group International among others - about which I am very proud and a little surprised.