I’m a big character reader. Give me a great set of characters and I’ll follow them on mundane errands. Plots are interesting and all that, but it doesn’t matter how fantastic your plot is, if your characters don’t connect with me, I won’t keep reading.
 
That said, I can keep reading so long as I [...]

Reviving an Old Author
 
I want to start focusing on other authors, even inviting a few to join me here over the next few months or years.
 
This week, however, I want to talk about an author who is retired, sadly for those of us who love her work, but who has left us a legacy of [...]

A small brag.
I keep forgetting to do this. But here it is….
Introducing… ME!

Okay, back to your regularly scheduled day.

You know how some groups have their own “special” language?  As a child my sister and I used to speak pig-latin to each other.  Illy-stay irls-gay… I met my hubby when we were teen-agers and his brothers were quite a few years younger, they developed a language where they took the first letter of words [...]

instead of romance novels our love stories revolved around food? It is said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Although, I think ‘they’ need to study anatomy. Or do they?
Yesterday started off with a full and wholly satisfying breakfast of eggs in a nest, biscuits with sausage gravy and sausage [...]

For real. Be sticky. Today is the day I met my husband eight years ago (okay, we vaguely knew each other, but in 2000 was when we started dating). A few months went by and we knew we were going to stay together. Yesterday was my five year wedding anniversary. Yeah!
 
Why am I telling you this? [...]

I started my current book a while ago and I had made good progress on it.  Unfortunately, i came to the point where I realised I needed a bit more - a bit more conflict, a bit more emotional depth, etc, etc.  I let the idea for the story percolate around in my brain a [...]

This is my life of late. Who could think that a hurricane probably a thousand miles away could turn my life so insane. The problem–hubby had an interview in Brownsville, TX and another one in Houston on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Monday, I literally spent the day on the phone arranging, rearranging, and then rearranging [...]

Hey All!
Her Captain Returns has a release date!  It will be available from The Wild Rose Press on January 28, 2009!!
Here is the blurb;
Miss Corinne Claymore, never knew what she was getting into with her innocent flirtations with Captain Ryder Montgomery.  Scandal ensues and she finds herself not only married to Ryder but abandoned.  After [...]

It’s happened to me. More than once. It’s probably happened to all other writers. If not, it will. My husband finds it immensely entertaining when I get all in a huff because characters that I created in my mind won’t continue to act or say what I’m telling them to. He doesn’t understand this…this problem [...]