So, you went to the RWA® National Conference in Orlando, Florida last week. You hung with your tribe. You went to the RITA® and Golden Heart® ceremonies. You had Smoking Sangria Cocktails in the bar. You took a thousand pages of notes on craft and Facebook advertising. You brainstormed and networked and left Florida feeling like […]
Read More →(Opinions are my own) As I type this, I’m sitting on my balcony at the Orlando Swan/Dolphin and enjoying a few quiet day before the madness that is the Romance Writers of America’s Annual Conference begins. The RWA Conference is among my favorite weeks of the year. Partly because there is a unique energy that […]
Read More →Forget everything I said last week about life getting in the way of my writing. This week, I figured out why I’m really having so much trouble finishing the rewrites on The Suburbs Have Secrets. It’s fear. For nearly a decade, my books were insulated by a publisher’s seal of approval. No matter what the […]
Read More →It’s a cloudy Tuesday here. To brighten things up, I thought I’d post the opening paragraphs from The Suburbs Have Secrets, the first book in the Sadie McIntyre Mystery Series. Look for the book this October. Enjoy! Chapter 1 Everyone has secrets. Take, for example, the good folk of Woodbridge, Massachusetts, population 7,256. Like many […]
Read More →This is the white board in the office I share with the Captain outlining my to-do list for the summer. I’m behind. I had such plans for the year. If you read my last blog, you know my ambition has returned post empty nest. 2017 was going to be the year I took control of […]
Read More →When I was young, I wasn’t what you’d call particularly ambitious. I was raised by a very traditional family. If my mom wanted more than to be a good wife and mother, she didn’t say so out loud. She considered work outside the home as something a woman did to help make ends meet. As […]
Read More →Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve noticed the world has become increasingly politically divided. (Personally, I’d like to live under a rock so as to avoid the politics, but sadly, the world will not let me, much as I try.) Anyway, if you are being bombarded with political info – and that would be […]
Read More →Ever decide you’re going to take a week to catch up, only to have the week booked up with unexpected appointments? that’s been my week. This week was supposed to be the start of “Operation Declutter” at the Wallace house. Instead, I found myself planning a Tattoo’s engagement party and having a few emergency coffees. […]
Read More →Opinions are totally my own and no one else’s This weekend I sat in a room with a whole lot of very successful, very romance smart writers discussing marketing and self-publishing. The entire time saw me hyperventilating over the intensity and savvy on display. As I frantically took notes, I realized I had a crap […]
Read More →Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:50 am, I closed and locked the door on my mother’s house. I posed for a photograph with my brother on the front lawn. I wished him and my sister-in-law a safe flight home. Then, I got in my car and drove away from my childhood home for the very last […]
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