Historical and Contemporary Romance Author
A few weeks ago, RWA (Romance Writers of America) announced that, beginning in 2014, there will no longer be a Rita or Golden Heart category for “Novel with Strong Romantic Elements.” These are books in which there is a romantic arc, but it is not the main focus of the story. Lots of books categorized and sold as women’s fiction…
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t promise “soon.” People’s definitions of soon vary greatly. That said, I do have a vision and I plan to implement it as soon as humanly possible, which, given my life and other priorities, probably means late this year or early next. In a nutshell, what I’m hoping to do is improve the website branding to represent all three…
Last week, I became tangentially aware of a fairly new website/service called LendInk. The concept behind this site was pretty simple: people with lendable Kindle or Nook books could sign up for the site and list the books they owned that had an available “lend.” They could then also use the site to search for books they wanted to borrow…
Ever since the meteoric rise of Fifty Shades of Grey began, I’ve been watching the publishing industry’s response with a combination of bemusement and dismay. The dismay comes mostly the form of me shaking my head every time a book is marketed as being “for” readers who loved Fifty (hm, guess it’s not for me, then, huh?) or given a monotone…
I’m working on cover art for my next historical series, the first two books of which should be out in the first half of 2013. I’d already approved the cover for the second book in the series (Unashamed), but when I got the comp for the the cover of the first book (Unbridled), it was apparent that the font that…
I’ve probably not been particularly discreet when it comes to my feelings about a certain extremely popular erotic trilogy that began its life as Twilight fan fiction. (And if you don’t know which trilogy I’m talking about based on that description, lucky you!) Although I have not read the entire trilogy, I have read enough of the first book to…
In the midst of the wrangling over the DOJ’s case against Apple and a collection of the Big 6 publishers (don’t ask me to remember which ones off the top of my head, okay?), which alleges the publishers colluded in setting up the so-called agency pricing1 scheme for digital books with retailers (Amazon, Apple, B&N, etc.), I’ve seen a lot…
Hot Under the Collar is now uploaded and available for sale. Yay! I really love this novella, and I hope you will, too. I do want to warn you it’s a little “tamer” than some of my other books in the explicit sex department (if you’ve read my backlist, it’s a bit hotter than The Reiver and not quite as…
As I’m working to wrap up Hot Under the Collar for my editor by the middle of this week, it occurred to me that it’s a shame it wasn’t ready for release on Father’s Day because this story features a very sweet (I think) relationship between the heroine, Artemisia Finch, and her father, Horace Finch. I realized this morning that…
I started writing with the idea that I might get published in about 2005. Although I’d written many stories from the time I was about seven years old until I was into my twenties, but after I got married and had small kids, the urge died down and I didn’t do much more than toy with the idea of writing…