Naturally this blog has to deal with mothers! I am close to my mother and I love her dearly, but the mothers in my work are not always so loving. In Sorceress of Faith, the main inner conflict my heroine (Marian) had was with her mother and the image her mother had of [...]

And I’m not talking about the weather. I’m in Michigan. It’s hardly what you’d call “hot” in May We had a frost warning last week.
No, what I’m talking about are books. Have you read the articles? Watched the interviews on television?
Hot romances are the latest buzz. Even Geraldo did a story on it. [...]

Many romances have mystery subplots that take up between three to seventy-five percent of the page count, and the emphasis upon and quality of the mystery is very important to many readers.
As a writer, I’ve found there are three basic ways to include a mystery:
-the incidental mystery (the characters know it’s a mystery and are [...]

I’m geared up for the Romantic Times Conference in Daytona Beach. I’ll be there between May 15 to May 21! How many of you will be there? I hope I’ll get to meet some of you at the book signing or just wandering around enjoying the fantastic events. In particular, I hope those of [...]

I hate to shop. Okay. I know this puts me at odds with 99% of the female population, at least if I believe the stereotypes. But man, I HATE to shop, even for groceries. I despise everything about it. I dislike the parking lots, the annoying shopping carts that stick together [...]

May’s going to be a busy month for me. I have a book deadline looming; a conference to attend; six entries for a contest to judge; a workshop I’m going to (with one of my favorite authors, Jennifer Crusie, as a presenter); birthdays, holidays and anniversaries to celebrate and more! What will you [...]

Let me beg pardon in advance for incoherence. Right now, I am supposed to be writing a paper on the Globalization of the Modern Legal Consciousness (from 1850 to 2000). It is a topic designed to reduce anyone’s brain to mush, especially since most of the articles on the subject are written in [...]