Being a new – or newish – author means making mistakes. You do it often, but if you are serious about the work, if writing is your passion, you dust yourself off when you fall, you learn from your mistakes,…
Recently, I wrote an email soliciting members for the Advanced Reader Group of my upcoming novel, Desire & Dessert. In response, a couple of my favorite fans, who are avid readers and wonderfully honest as well, confessed that before I…
Want – a completed novel. Have – a blank page. Okay, a blank Word document to be absolutely accurate, but the result is the same – panic. At least I am my own publisher, so there is no third party…
Have you seen the movie Love Actually? I have watched it about a thousand times. Makes me cry, every time. I mention Love Actually because I have been thinking of the wonderful scenes when Colin Firth gets away from his…
From the moment I tackled my first novel, when I chose a setting for my books, I chose to use real places. There were numerous reasons, I suppose, even if I was not fully aware of them. Many experts say…
I would like to thank my sisters, who are also my editors, beta readers, sounding boards and so much more, for sharing some of their insights into life with a romance author. Welcome to my three wonderful sisters. EWWWW! We…
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” ― James Van Pelt Although I was still avoiding Instagram completely, and all but ignoring LinkedIn, I believed I had become sophisticated in my use of…
Sultry Nights A Limited Edition Romance Collection Containing Stories from: Nicole Morgan, Jocelyn Dex, Alison Foster, Kate Richards, Linda O’Connor, Samantha Holt, Jerrie Alexander, Whitley Cox, Krista Ames, Ursula Sinclair, Measha Stone, Tuesday Embers, Siera London, Rachel Shane, Bonnie Phelps, Misha Elliott, Alyson Reynolds, Jenna Bayley-Burke, Madison Michael, Pepper Goodrich, Marcia James, Destiny…
I am part of a collection. Well my novel, Bedeviled, is part of a collection, Sultry Nights, is available for preorder, and rapidly climbing in the Amazon rankings. It’s very exciting, not just because of the booming number of preorders,…
Ok, so there are plenty of bloody battles – and I do mean plenty and I do mean bloody – in Game of Thrones. And yes, there is incest and greed, murder most foul and mayhem in general, but I…