Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
According to my website stats, 85 lovely people stopped by my blog between Christmas Eve and the morning of Boxing Day to download a copy of THE LESSON PLAN. Thank you all for taking some time away from your families to come and visit me. I hope you all enjoy the book and are having a wonderful holiday season. And…
I have one last Lords of Lancashire cover and cover copy to reveal. And since the novella is set during the Christmas season of 1804, it seems as good a time as any to do so :). A Matter of Indiscretion With his facility for languages and gift for diplomacy, Thomas Pearce is perfectly suited for his recent position in…
It can’t have escaped too many authors’ notice that most of the major publishers are opening digital-first/only romance lines. Harlequin was first out of the gate with Carina Press, but now we have Avon jumping into the game with Avon Impulse and Random House with Loveswept. I’m sure the other major houses can’t be far behind. There’s a lot to…
So, I have two cover reveals to do today. The first is a cover you’ve seen before but in a slightly reworked form. Carrie over at Seductive Musings took the cover I created with my limited GIMP skills (er, maybe I ought to say “complete lack of GIMP skills”) for Wrong Side of the Grave and made a few modifications…
I don’t remember how I discovered Nanci Griffith. I know I was in graduate school at The University of Chicago at the time and the proud owner of my first CD player, and that Griffith’s live album, One Fair Summer Evening, was one of the first CDs I purchased. But I can’t for the life of me recall who told…
If all goes according to plan, we’ll be getting our Christmas tree this afternoon. As usual, however, my kids have been pestering me to get one for three weeks solid, despite the fact that every year, we are always among the last of our friends and neighbors to get one. Despite the fact that I’ve told them repeatedly that I…
The official release date for The Lesson Plan has been December 25 for a few weeks now. Although I’ll actually be uploading it to various retailers on the 23rd in the hopes of having it available for purchase by the 25th, I still consider the 25th to be the book’s true release date. And I’ve decided that, because the novella…
So, I just found out that Harlequin is having a nifty ebook special today. If you use the coupon code E5DOLL11 when you check out, you’ll get $5 off your purchase. This means that, if you buy both Grace Under Fire and Taking Liberties, you’ll pay a grand total of just 38 cents. Of course, this works for a lot…
Since Amazon announced the KDP Select program last week, there’s been a lot of discussion about whether it’s the best thing since sliced bread for self-published authors1 or a harbinger of impending doom (which will be brought about by Amazon taking over the digital bookselling world). In case you’ve missed all of this and have no idea what KDP Select…
Side note: I must be in the mood for music by artists who met tragic ends. This song is my absolute favorite by INXS, a band whose every album I bought as a teeneager and whose HAWT frontman, Michael Hutchence, was the Jim Morrison of my generation, right up to the premature death. (And did I mention he was HAWT?)…