The proposal you've always dreamed of...

Hi all,

With Valentine’s Day round the corner, Romance HQ is in its element – here’s hoping for multiple red rose deliveries at the office next Tuesday! Have you bought your Valentine’s Day presents yet? Any good ones you’d like to recommend? (To help me get in the present-buying zone, my sister has sent me a snazzy red hole-punch that punches out paper hearts. You end up with heart-shaped confetti! Apparently it’s the perfect present for a Romance HQ editor and the stationary geek inside of me definitely agrees.)

But this year, something even more romantic than Valentine’s Day is happening this February – it’s a Leap Year, and February 29th is the day that women traditionally propose! I’m a BIG fan of this twist on romantic convention, so let’s have a quick pause for some book recommendations...

If you love it when the woman goes down on one knee, make sure you check out:

The Bridesmaid’s Proposal by Rebecca Winter (M&B Digital Shorts, available February 2012)

http://millsandboon.co.uk/books/shorts/the-bridesmaids-proposal-ebook.htm 

and The End of Faking It by Natalie Anderson (RIVA) 

http://millsandboon.co.uk/books/Riva/The-End-of-Faking-It.htm

Read and enjoy!

Now, enough of the hard sell. To celebrate the upcoming 29th, Romance HQ wants to hear about your real-life romances! What was your proposal like: magical, out of the blue, funny, excruciating? Any women out there who did the asking themselves? And, looking back (because sometimes the reality of romance is far less glossy than the fantasy) was there room for improvement - what would you change about your proposal if you could?!

Romance HQ is dying to know, so please be brave and share your stories. And I hope you all have a happy, love-filled Valentine’s Day!

Love Flo x

P.S. Don’t forget to enter Mills & Boon’s fab competition to win your dream proposal this Leap Year – check out the details at:

www.millsandboon.co.uk/dreamproposal.

For anyone needing inspiration, check out this superfantasticamazing public proposal on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mWXrHi1Rks&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

It had the whole office (well, me at least) in floods of happy tears and still makes me smile every time I watch it. Which is probably more often than I should, but it’s just so romantic!