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Romance Writers Weekly: Writer’s Space
This week’s topic was chosen by S. C. Mitchell – Describe your perfect writing retreat. If you came from the amazing Sarah Hegger’s site, welcome! Today is the release day for my romantic thriller...
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USA TODAY: Must See Trailers: “Untrue Colors”
The book trailer for “Untrue Colors” is featured on USA Today’s HEA feature. Here’s the link…...
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Romance Writers Weekly: Flash Fiction
This week we’re challenged to write an interesting flash fiction under 100 words using the words spring, coffee, and lizard. What insane person thought of this question? Me! Did you come from Mikki...
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Romance Writer’s Weekly: Emotion
Welcome back to Romance Writer’s Weekly. This week’s topic is from Tracey Gee. As we all know, authors put real people and situations into their books. Let’s look at the times we’ve pushed through the...
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Romance Writers Weekly: My Day Job
Welcome to Romance Writers Weekly Blog Hop! If you’ve come from Kristi Rose, welcome!! Her book is sale- just an FYI!!!! This week Jeanne McDonald provided the topic this week. Outside of writing, what...
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Romance Writers’ Weekly: Killing Your Darlings
Welcome back to the Romance Weekly Romance Blog Hop. The coolest romance writers in the business link together once a week to talk writing, life, and random stuff. This week’s topic is from Carrie Elks...
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Ready for 2016? It’s coming anyway.
I accomplished many goals in 2015. First novel published, second novel published, made PAN (a professional author designation) for the Romance Writers of America, spoke at the Debut Author Breakfast...
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Romance Writers Weekly: All in the Name of Research-Locations
Welcome to Romance Writer’s Weekly Blog Tour. A.S. Fenichel provided our topic for the week! What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done in the name of “researching a book?” I’ve been fairly active all...
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James Patterson Co-Author Contest Semi-Finalist!!!
My entry “In Her Pocket” was selected as one of the ten semi-finalists. The winner of the contest has the opportunity to co-author a thriller with James Patterson. A dream come true. Three finalists...
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2016 Booksellers’ Best Winner
I attended the Romance Writers of America Annual Conference last week in San Diego. What a great opportunity to meet with my agent, editors, and my friends. The highlight of the week was learning...
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50 Resolutions in 50 Days Before I’m 50: Resolution 6
This is the hardest resolution I’ve decided upon so far. I’m giving up sugar. No candy, no brownies, no pumpkin spice lattes. As an almost 50 year old female, I’ve noticed my weight climbing even...
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50 Resolutions in 50 Days Before I’m 50: Resolution 7
I’m at the 7 week mark and my resolutions have been swallowed up by my busy life. Excuses abound. I have to go to a meeting or be in court, I have to drop off or pick up the kids from school or...
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Fifty Resolutions in Fifty Weeks Before I’m Fifty. Resolutions 9 and 10
So I missed blogging last week and therefore, I’m throwing a resolution at the problem. My ninth resolution is to write at least one blog post every week. Perhaps the power of the resolutions will...
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50 Resolutions Before I’m Fifty: 12 – More Meditation
Does meditation work? For me, yes. My mind runs in circles. It’s not gathering amazing bits of information for future books. Not generally. Most of the time, the focus of my thoughts involve a lack of...
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50 Resolutions Before I’m 50: Number 13 Being Happy with Me
I had new author photos taken this past weekend. I found the most amazing photographer, Lori Mann, who looks at photos as art and helped me show the exact feeling I wanted to portray. After having...
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50 Resolutions Before I’m 50: Number 15 Live My Passion, No Matter What
Today is my daughter’s last day of high school. It’s hitting me harder than it is her. I taught her to read and homeschooled her until seventh grade when I thrust her into a school setting and told...
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Resolution: Keeping Sane When Everything Falls Apart.
New Orleans in 2005 and 2015 So everything fell to sh*t last week. I made a stupid assumption that if I worked hard, I could control the outcomes in my legal practice, my writing career, my family...
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Fifty Resolutions Before I’m Fifty: Aren’t you 50 Yet?
A lot of people have been asking me when the hell I’m turning fifty, since I’ve been blogging on and off about the transition for over a year. The truth is, I’ll be fifty in February. My goal was to...
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Fifty Resolutions Before I’m Fifty: Pacing
My newest resolution? Working at a solid, steady pace, not rushing myself into an unworkable frenzy. For the past few weeks, I’ve been finishing a book. It’s done. In the process, I fell away from...
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I am Fifty
It’s here. I’m beginning my fiftieth year. Fifty. It’s been a long road to get where I am through swamps, over mountains, across oceans, and under my covers. I spent the last year trying out fifty new...
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