Once upon a time, I had a great routine. I’d get up, head to Starbucks and write. I did this for several years, through several unpublished years and the first two published books. Sometime during published book #3 I got a dog. Pup-pup was awesome, but he made me feel guilty if I left him […]
Read More →I’m supposed to be doing revisions this morning – a process that I routinely make far more complicated than necessary – but I had thoughts in my head that needed to be written down before I can focus. One of my rituals on Thursday is to log in and read Kristine Kathryn Rausch’s Business Musings […]
Read More →Wedding Fever It’s T-4 days until my son’s wedding. He’s marrying a lovely young woman and everyone is thrilled. Everyone is also going a bit insane with last minute details. Yours truly is in charge of writing the actual ceremony while Capt. Pete is performing the ceremony along with the bride’s grandfather. Needless to say, […]
Read More →Today’s First Chapter is from A Millionaire for Cinderella, Book 1 of my In Love With the Boss series. It’s the story of Patience Rush, who’s job as a maid was obtained with a lie. Just what is Patience hiding? And why? CHAPTER 1 HOW LONG DID it take to examine one little old lady? […]
Read More →I finally figured it out – the whole going fallow thing. It isn’t so much about burning the weeds and allowing a new plant to grow as it is allowing the existing plants — the ones who are being choked by the weeds — to flourish. This sounds a lot like a duh kind of […]
Read More →How do I love this story? Let me count the ways: 1) A character modeled after Tattoo. 2) Hockey, Dunkin Donuts, and New Hampshire references. 3) A hero who I loved beyond measure. 4) A single mom heroine juggling everything. Oh yeah, and it was a finalist for the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Chapter […]
Read More →Winner of the Booksellers Best Award 2014! Waitress Abby Gray is about to discover knights in shining armor aren’t just for fairy tales. CHAPTER ONE “HEY, WHERE DO you think you’re going?” Pudgy fingers gripped Abby’s wrist. She froze, hating herself for her reaction. “Let go of me, Warren,”she said. Her ex-boyfriend shook his head. […]
Read More →This week I’m featuring one of my favorite books. I really pushed myself with this book, and it paid off. Simon is one heck of a tragic hero. In fact, Wendy the Super Librarian called it one of her Best Reads of 2014. Delilah St. Germaine fell for New York’s most in-demand bachelor, Simon Cartwright, […]
Read More →Last week I talked – again – about building a better mental ecosystem. I figured I ought to tell you why the idea is so important to me. Warning: I’m about to do a crap-load of oversharing here. Read on at your own risk. I’m going through a bit of an identity crisis at the […]
Read More →A while back on Facebook, I wrote about nurturing my mental ecosystem. An ecosystem, as you know, is a system of interacting elements working together as one unit. If one of the elements is out of balance, the system suffers. Take, for example, a garden. If you want a ton of vegetables, you need the […]
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