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 […]
Read More →Did you all know I have a Christmas book coming out? I’ve been doing a lot of talking about my mystery debut, but I am still writing Harlequin Romances as well. I’m so excited that this year I’m doing a continuity series with one of my closest friends. I know, I know I say that […]
Read More →I’ve been thinking a lot lately about hygge. Hygge, in case you don’t know, is the Danish art of coziness. My friend Penny Watson turned me on to the idea. Hygge (pronounced Hoo-ga) is all about creating an atmosphere that brings joy and warmth to your life inside and out no matter what you are […]
Read More →“Fifty years ago, Peyton Place helped create the contemporary notion of “buzz,” indicted 1950s morality, and recast the concept of the soap opera, all in one big, purple-prosed book. It would spawn a sequel, a smash film nominated for nine Academy Awards, and television’s first prime-time serial. A week before it hit bookstores, on September […]
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