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….
Tag: sweet romance
First Chapter Friday: The Man Behind the Mask
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,…
Building a Better Mental Ecosystem, Part 2. Why?
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…
Building a Better Mental Ecosystem: Thoughts
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 an Excerpt from Christmas with her Millionaire Boss
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…
Musing about Hygge
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…
TBT: Peyton Place – The original Suburbs Have Secrets
“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…
Ecosystems
Last night, Penny Watson and I had a long talk about cultivating our personal ecosystems — a term I stole from author Susan K. Quinn. We decided we liked the word far better than community, partly because Penny is a gardener, but mostly because there is a very subtle but important difference between the two….
Letting Go
The words hit me like a slap in the face. My son looked me square in the eye and said, “Please stop sending suggestions. We want to do this ourselves.” He was talking about his and his fiancee’s upcoming move to Vermont, and he was right. When Tattoo first announced he was moving, my husband and…
When Life and Goals Collide
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…