If you’re like me, summer is super busy. Here in Chicago everyone crams at least two seasons, sometimes four worth of activities into the 100 days of warm weather and road construction. Its better than planning an event that everyone…
Go wide, young man…oh wait, that’s Go West, Young man, But not today. Today I am talking about why I chose not to go wide, a term used by authors and publishers to describe distributing their books with Apple, Kobo,…
I am proclaiming my independence! Okay, to be honest, I proclaimed it way back in 2015 when I decided to be an independent author rather than a traditionally published writer. But this week is Independence Day in the United States,…
I am not Cinderella, but I live a Cinderella life. Gracie here, checking in from beneath Maddy’s desk for another issue of Meowy Madison. I recently awoke from a long nap after a late night. Why a late night,…
I wrote the nastiest bad guy character of my career for the prequel to my Beguiling Bachelor series, Bewildered. Or in this case, bad girl. Creating Sloane led me to engage in several discussions during the last week or two…
Rewrites from A Cat’s Perspective Hi there, you don’t know me, but my name is Gracie. I am a domestic short-hair feline. Don’t roll your eyes at me. Felines have sat beside some of the best loved writers in history,…
It’s Launch season – billionaire style! For the next several months, I will focus on relaunching the Beguiling Bachelors romances, my original series about four billionaire friends searching for love. In honor of the rewrites and the new launch efforts,…
HAPPY 2022!!! May it be a joyous year for you and those you care about. This week I am bringing back a post I wrote in December 2016. Seems like a lifetime ago. Before I published most of my novels,…
Take Me is CD Reiss’s newest release. If you follow this my writing at all, you know I am a big fan. And why not? Boundary breaking stories, steamy sex, rich powerful men, exotic settings, books by CD have…
Before I became an author, before the pandemic drove people from office buildings to their homes, I worked at a multinational corporation where I was the unofficial Social Director. Seriously, Julie could dazzle cruise goers on the Lido deck, but…